The proposed draft Data Protection Regulation were revealed by the European Commission. The document includes many suggestions like the right to be forgotten which will allow users to have their photos, details, and other data removed from websites, social networks, and search engines. Also serious violations, such as processing data without the individual’s consent, would be fined up to €1 million or 2 percent of their global annual turnover.
New bookmarklet called “don’t be evil” modifies Google’s code of the Search plus Your World feature and includes results from different social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, GitHub, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. The code of the bookmarklet was released as open source so that anyone can use it to create similar browser extension.
Mozilla partners with public media to provide crowdsourced captions and subtitles for the U.S. Open Election 2012. The new technology called “Mozilla Popcorn,” is a HTML5 media tool which help developers and authors create interactive pages that supplement video and audio with rich web content.
This Wednesday the World Economic Forum will take place in Switzerland. Facebook, Google, Apple and other Web companies are waiting to see the next version of Europe’s data protection laws that would be revealed at the forum. The document could include harsh penalties that will enable the European Commission to impose fines of up to 5 percent of a company’s global financial turnover.
Apple announced its plans to bring iBooks 2 with interactive textbooks to students at its own education event. The company unveiled more details regarding the new digital textbook model and is trying to get publishers to make iPad versions of them. This solution could make the education process much more attractive and even save money in long the term.
Read MoreWikipedia's English-language pages went black for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. The splash page displays an announcement which says that the legislation offered by SOPA could fatally damage the free and open Internet. Google and Craigslist also joined the virtual protest asking their users to contact Congress and vote against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Adobe announced that it will be an official sponsor for the NEXT category of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that will take place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah. The company focuses on NEXT films which stretch limited resources to create original and inspiring art. Adobe will also be hosting two panels at the festival: How Technology is Influencing Storytelling and Film, and Modern Storytelling, a Case Study by Vincent Laforet.
According to Adobe the acquisition of the digital marketing company Efficient Frontier will enable it to add a multi-channel ad campaign forecasting, execution and optimization capabilities to its existing Digital Marketing Suite. Other solutions that Efficient Frontier brings to Adobe’s table are a social marketing engagement platform and social ad buying capabilities.
Google shares the principles behind Chrome security in a document that gives users some insight into the browser development. Some of the major security principles which the company follows are: design for defense in depth, be transparent, engage the community, speed matters and make the web safer for everyone.