With so many different platforms to aggregate, noise levels are surging. An underlying issue in the level of noise is that some of these services were not made to interact with one another. Users of social aggregation tools should understand that what you may consider noise is actually a side-effect of using a social aggregation platform. Users should also note when you may be confusing aggregation with importation.
Though importation may be a necessary step within aggregation, there is a difference between the two. Importation is usually more selective and limited to the inclusion of select items of other services. This may include common specifics such as names, ages, and locations. However, with aggregation a service attempts to conglomerate key features and entire contents of other services. This makes aggregation seemingly more flexible due to it’s ability to encompass a wider scope of content.
Confusing Aggregation with Importation
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Bell Canada Hit With Privacy Complaint Over Deep Packet Inspection Practices
Michael Geist
“CIPPIC has filed a privacy complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada over Bell’s deep packet inspection practices. With CAIP raising the privacy issue in its submission to the CRTC, it was only a matter of time before the Privacy Commissioner was asked to intervene. CIPPIC highlights several privacy concerns with Bell’s network management practices including:
- Bell’s failure to obtain consent for the collection of personal information through DPI from customers of the independent ISPs
- Bell’s failure to obtain informed consent from its own customers given the lack of information on network management practices
- Bell’s violation of the principle of limiting collection, since the evidence “suggests that Bell can manage its network adequately without inspecting the content of user communications.” CIPPIC notes that other providers do not engage in the same practice and that there are less privacy invasive means to address network congestion concerns.
- Bell’s violation of the openness principle, given its failure to disclose “in a clear and conspicuous manner to the public its use of DPI for traffic management purposes.”
20 Types of Freelance Work Identified and Explained
FreelanceSwitch
“If freelancers could invent our own clichés, one might be: no two jobs are the same. Each gig we take on brings with it new personalities, new challenges and new rewards.
Despite these differences, most any freelancing gig will fit into one of these twenty types.
Where does the job you’re (supposed to be) working on now fit in..?Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have
ReadWriteWeb
- Multi-service IM
- Cross Platform Screensharing Tool
- A Custom Search Engine
- Startpage
- Blog With Your Name and Contact Info
Hackers find a new place to hide rootkits
InfoWorld/ Robert McMillan
“Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.
Called an SSM (System Management Mode) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer’s memory that can be locked and rendered invisible to the operating system but which can give attackers a picture of what’s happening in a computer’s memory.
The SMM rootkit comes with keylogging and communications software and could be used to steal sensitive information from a victim’s computer…”