• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Facebook’s privacy problems in Belgium highlight weaknesses in EU legislation

A Belgian privacy lawsuit targeting Facebook highlights the difficulties national regulators will face policing the activities of international Internet companies until new privacy laws are passed.The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy is unhappy with the way Facebook handles […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, June 15

As Spark faithful gather this week, IBM puts down its betThe hugely popular Hadoop framework for processing big data sets is getting some serious competition from alternative platform Spark, the Wall Street Journal reports, and thousands of the upstart’s acolytes […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, June 15

As Spark faithful gather this week, IBM puts down its betThe hugely popular Hadoop framework for processing big data sets is getting some serious competition from alternative platform Spark, the Wall Street Journal reports, and thousands of the upstart’s acolytes […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Amazon now an open book on search warrants and subpoenas

Amazon.com has published its first transparency report describing how it has responded to requests from law enforcers for information about its customers.The company fielded 813 subpoenas, 25 search warrants, 13 court orders and fewer than 250 national security requests from […]