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Week 7: Google's Personally Identifiable Information

Each giant’s privacy policy, including Google, Inc. can recall data breaches within their timeline. Overall, it is all about how much you trust your service provider, and how deep you know to configure your own privacy. In this mobile computing era, we think we are getting closed to each other the most, actually, we are sacrificing our own privacy with or without consents. If you use specific features, they might also contain additional kinds of personally identifiable information (PII) (personally identifiable information (PII): Any information that can be used to identify a person, such as a name, address, e-mail address, government ID, IP address, or any unique identifier associated with PII in another program.), such as e-mail headers, send-for-review information, routing slips, printer paths, and file path information for publishing Web pages. What Google does not want to happen is to have PII of the visitor to a website attached to behavior collected by Google A...

Week 6: Apple's Web Presence

Apple is a highly innovative company company who focuses on their technological capabilities, web presence and expertise. A web design for the Apple company should comprise of simplification, clear definition and navigation for company enrichment that is also capable of a simplistic and elegant overall design. Designers borrow, restyle, reinvent, inspire and get inspired. Nothing that is being designed is completely new, if you realize this. I feel that newspaper design has strongly influenced web design when CSS came along and web design took things further to influence newspaper design in its turn. There are always web designers who reach a larger public, to whom the design is new. Then, the designer who reaches a certain critical mass is dubbed the 'inventor' of the design. However, I saw a very interesting speech by Bill Buxton (he's of Microsoft so of course he likes to bash Apple) who showed images, products (a touch screen (glass) Casio watch from the 80's!)...