Personal privacy suffered a huge blow on foreign soil earlier last week as Research in Motion, the Canadian-based manufacturer of BlackBerry communication devices, caved in response to the Indian government’s demand for access to encrypted information on the devices. Without such access, Indian officials claimed they would ban the use of BlackBerrys all [...]
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Digital advertising may be on the verge of a new era. Recent developments in face-tracking technology seem to have made personal, Minority Report-esque advertising possible and, at least to some extent, probable in the near future.
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Companies such as TruMedia Technologies are now able to offer advertisers digital [...]
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