"Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), which states that an organization cannot make a person’s consent to their data being collected (aside from collection necessary to providing the service) a condition of the product or service being delivered."Those who provide us with services want to have the ability to use our personal information to send us targeted ads. Is the tradeoff worth it?
"Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages," Erick Schonfeld wrote.
"Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. "I guess this year that my blog assignment is suddenly out of date.
For all that he sees the technology’s possibilities, Mr Gelernter has a deep dislike for the way it would interpose itself between the user and his world, including the other people in it. “Developing and refining my own first reactions to my world is too important for me and my children to allow smart glasses to mix in and muddy the waters.” He fears that people surreptitiously using Glass as a teleprompter, perhaps to seem more knowledgeable, could put at “risk the very frankness and honesty of human communications”.
According to documents filed in court, "Lush brought trademark infringement proceedings against Amazon on the basis that when the term 'Lush' was searched for on Amazon's website, the results returned were for goods which, although they featured the word 'lush' in a number of contexts, were not in fact made by Lush. Amazon had also bid on the Google AdWord 'Lush Bath Products' but did not, in fact, sell any Lush products."