Ansa is a startup that has developed a mobile app for iOS and Android that enables people using mobile devices to text safely and securely, by giving them the power to retrieve messages and photos and giving them the ability to set a time limit before the message self-destructs.
Privacy
Facebook’s biggest barrier to enormous wealth? Trust
Image by RedKoala on BigStockPhoto Why Facebook will find it hard to monetize the social graph This is first of a three-part series on Facebook as an investment. Coming up: • Facebook will remain king, but social pure plays will fade • Brands: How to cut your exposure to Facebook business risk If Facebook’s […]
Why is the federal government regulating behavioral advertising?
Behavioral advertising is the practice of third party sites that track your web surfing behavior as you travel from one website to another, and then serve you relevant ads based on that cross-site surfing behavior. This has serious privacy concerns as information being gathered is being shared across multiple sites.
For years, the industry has tried to self regulate in order to keep the federal government at bay, explained Steven Bennett, lawyer for Jones Day in New York, in a presentation he gave at the CRM Evolution Conference in New York City.
What kind of Web 3.0 world should we make?
Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Silicon Valley insider, provides rich insight into technology trends, markets and building companies. Christopher Rollyson attended his presentation at SxSW and provided a substantial rundown. A main snippet? Web 3.0 would “arrive sooner and be stranger than we think.”
The law and emerging media
Can you buy back privacy? Musings of an entrepreneur in tech and media on law and evolving media.