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Businesses warned of profiling dangers
News Thomas said that businesses risk "a public backlash" against the building of customer profiles and a loss of public confidence. If surveillance is not taken seriously there will be a public backlash. Businesses and police risk forfeiting public...
[March 28, 2007, 17:26]
Filesharing - your questions for FAST please!
Blog Comment Could you success in influencing Government produce a backlash that reminds that it is supposed to serve the public not private special pleading, leading to backlash. Should we not tax the industry income for the costs it imposes on the public via...
[October 25, 2007, 19:01]
India calls for allies to fight backlash
Talkback Worried about the backlash? My heart bleeds for them - the sooner the public organises against the export of skilled jobs, the better
[January 14, 2004, 17:10]
What Can 2007 Teach Us About 2008?
White Papers However, financial markets soon shifted and companies felt the backlash. Private equity garnered nearly $400 billion in mega deals in merely six months, and news of multiple billion-dollar acquisitions (Chrysler, Alltel and CKX) illustrated a trend...
[February 7, 2008, 13:00]
The Future of Auditing Standards, and Their Impact on Corporate Governance
White Papers Although the backlash from the Enron, MCI, and myriad other scandals continues to argue for new regulations to ensure tough auditing, controls and governance standards, finance executives and other corporate constituencies are making a strong case...
[October 20, 2005, 0:00]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback It also carries with it social significance such as a public backlash to unchecked captialism, the theft denial of public knowledge, and a frightening lack of innovation due to corporate and legislative roadblocks.
[April 8, 2005, 23:23]
IBM boss spells out a better future
News The normally taciturn Sam Palmisano, the chief executive of IBM, aligned himself this week with those who predict a backlash against large multinational companies, such as IBM itself. In what the Financial Times described as "a rare public...
[June 12, 2006, 16:45]
RIM and Airwave vie to cut police paperwork
News The inevitable backlash against such breaches has seen government departments trying to lock down data policies, with one example being the implementation of a ban, following yet another data breach at the Ministry of Defence, on unencrypted...
[February 20, 2008, 10:27]
Statistician defends his outsourcing figures
News In a recent interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, McCarthy discussed his frustration with the press and described why businesses, fearing the potential public relations backlash, have stopped talking about their offshoring plans.
[August 10, 2004, 12:15]
Technophiles show Luddite streak
News Acclaimed author and broadcaster James Bellini presented the strongest argument against technology and predicted a massive public backlash which would lead to what he described as the "digital reformation".
[October 9, 2000, 14:29]
Attacks silence privacy concerns
News Such public sentiment could fuel a political backlash at a sensitive time in the privacy debate. On a separate front, a hard-fought battle that successfully loosened laws banning the export of high-grade encryption products in the late 1990s could...
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
Can you trust TRUSTe?
News EPIC's Rotenberg doubts that a potential public relations backlash will stop privacy violations. These programs are great for public relations, because the companies can say they have a privacy policy, but they are a disaster for privacy protection...
[November 3, 1999, 9:38]
Trade group: P2P not illegal or immoral
News The group's words place it squarely in the midst of a cross-industry backlash to the copyright holders' war on Internet piracy, however. ISPs and technology companies have separately made their own displeasure public in recent weeks.
[September 18, 2002, 8:02]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms search for happy medium
News When anything gets overhyped there's a backlash," said Fred Wilson, a partner in Flatiron Partners, a New York City venture capital firm that helped fund TheStreet.com, StarMedia, and Multex.com. When you have venture capital and hopes for lots of...
[October 9, 2000, 12:18]
Sites spotlight reports of copy-protected CDs
News The sites, located in the United States and United Kingdom, are part of a swelling consumer backlash to record companies' experimentation with CDs that can't be copied or turned into MP3 files. Although few of these CDs have been definitively...
[November 13, 2001, 13:06]
Microsoft tries to soften its image
News The backlash -- fueled in part by the company's tangle with the U.S. Those who escaped the Redmond campus to celebrate with friends and family often found backlash against their company where they least expected it -- at the Christmas feast or the...
[January 19, 1998, 13:29]
Exchanges grow amid fears
News You could see a supplier backlash," said i2 chief technology officer Jim MacKay. Some firms, such as Sun Microsystems, say public marketplaces like IBM's have a limited future, since participants must provide sensitive business information.
[May 22, 2000, 11:40]
Planet 2000: Computing giants debate B2B strategies
News You could see a supplier backlash," said i2 CTO Jim MacKay. Other companies, such as Sun Microsystems, say public marketplaces like IBM's have a limited future, since participants must provide sensitive business information.
[May 12, 2000, 11:16]
Spam fails to quash appetite for email
News The results surprised even the researchers, who said they expected to find evidence of a growing backlash against email, as many people and businesses are increasingly overwhelmed by unsolicited messages.
[December 9, 2002, 10:23]
NTP woos US government in patent case
Talkback This case has the USPTO afraid of political backlash. NTP is a hot potato which they want to lob into the appellate courts to defuse potential political backlash. And the public, even ex patent attorneys buy their propaganda hook line and sinker.
[January 23, 2006, 2:34]
