Ray Everett-Church

I am an avid user of Instant Messaging (IM), using it to keep in touch with business colleagues, friends, and family around the world. Because I have friends scattered among the three major services — AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger — I have accounts on all three. But AOL’s history of […]

It’s been a bad month for Microsoft’s efforts to promote their visions of trustworthiness and authentication in Internet commerce.   Just as the ground began to crumble beneath Microsoft’s “Sender ID” email authentication proposal, it was discovered that the Redmond, Wa.-based software giant was considering acquiring Claria, one of the world’s most notorious adware and […]

Last week in Washington, DC., (good news never starts out like this) a panel of security executives and technologists sat down to explore the challenges awaiting a new crop of chief privacy officers who will be appointed to federal agencies in response to new law. Unfortunately, from the tone of some of the discussion, the […]

In just the last two weeks, two high-profile jobs in the worlds of privacy and Internet public policy were filled, and the appointments say a lot about the companies, the candidates, and how two major industry names have chosen to approach some of the thorniest policy issues of the day. According to the National Journal, […]