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Data Ownership

Backupify Adds Migrator For Google Apps – And No, It’s Not Backup

by Rob Stevens on May 15, 2012 in About Backupify

I’m pleased to announce that Backupify is releasing a new tool today – Migrator for Google Apps. Migrator enables administrators to move users – one at a time or in groups – between Google domains, or between two accounts on the same domain. Migrator is far faster and more accurate than manual methods for moving [...]

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Why Maryland’s Employee Facebook Protection Law Is (Sort Of) A Bad Idea

by Jay Garmon on Apr 21, 2012 in Data Ownership
Password

Maryland is standing up for privacy rights and data ownership, as the Old Line State is set to ban employers from demanding access to employee social networking accounts. In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a growing national trend of corporations, schools and state agencies requiring a handover of Facebook passwords so employers can monitor and [...]

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Facebook Buying Instagram Isn’t the Big Data Ownership Story – Yahoo’s Reorg Is

by Jay Garmon on Apr 10, 2012 in Data Ownership
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So Facebook bought photosharing mobile network Instagram for tidy $1 billion this week. In all the furor about whether Instagram is selling out or Facebook is frightened of mobile or if this is further proof Facebook’s IPO will break the NASDAQ, we are obliged to ask what this means for data ownership, particularly for Instagram [...]

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Prosthetic Memory, Or Why Data Ownership Is About the Future of Your Brain

by Jay Garmon on Mar 01, 2012 in Backups
Memory prosthetic

One of the more intriguing bleeding-edge technocultural concepts floating around these days is prosthetic memory, which is to say memories and knowledge you rely upon that you yourself did not directly learn or experience. In more blunt terms, we’re talking about Wikipedia, only in such a form that you browse the content so easily and [...]

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The Last Reason You’ll Use Google+ Is The Best Reason

by Jay Garmon on Feb 13, 2012 in Backups

The always on-point Tom’s Guide techblog (I’m old enough to remember when it was Tom’s Hardware) has a list of 10 reasons you’ll be on Google+ in a year. While I agree with the arguments presented, it’s a misleading title, because there are really only two reasons, it’s just that one of them is phrased [...]

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