Could Federal Law on data protection be coming
The privacy of our data has been in the news a lot this year. It has brought some of our favorite social media platforms before Congress for hearings with all of the partisan bickering that we have come to expect from our elected officials in Washington. Overshadowed by the Kavanaugh hearings a few weeks ago […]
Google+ shutting down
Google seems to do nearly everything right, especially when it comes to security but one of their notable failures has been their social networking site Google+. Following a security lapse which exposed user information the company has decided to take Google+ offline making the announcement in a blog post Monday. Google+ Google+ was their fourth […]
The Court of the Internet
Who is the authority on the Internet? No we don’t mean Tim Berners-Lee or Vint Cerf or anyone like that. Who has the ability to determine punishment for the people who do not abide by the rules? For some Internet novices the mere thought of that can lead to hilarious results as evidenced by this […]
AI on the battlefield
We’ve seen the rise of unmanned vehicles that can accomplish a mission just as well as a manned vehicle can. It is keeping our service men and women out of harm’s way while still kicking butt on the battlefield. Seems like a win/win for us and a recent $2 billion investment by the government into […]
Google Chrome now marking all unencrypted websites as unsecure
You like people visiting your website right? At Nicely Done Sites we certainly hope so. If you had your site built by Nicely Done Sites you know that your site is secure so you have nothing to worry about with this but if you do not have your website secured you could have some trouble […]
Ever want to tell your computer to enhance?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could tell our computer what to do? No more mouse, no more keyboard, we speak and the computer does? We’re getting there but not quite there yet. Of course if one follows the Blade Runner timeline we should be able to do that by next year. It is one […]
Google has been tracking you
We are all being watched. Our technology is tracking our movements, whether it is our browsing history or where we go. Some of this is done to tailor ads to us while some of this is done for much more nefarious purposes. We all know its being done and at least Google now admits as […]
What happened to the toolbar?
A staple of nearly every web browser even up until a few years ago was the toolbar. It seemed like every company had their own toolbar. Microsoft had one, Google had one, Comcast had one and so on and so on. They were everywhere but in just a few short years it seems like they […]
How was SEO born?
When the first search engines and websites came online in the early 1990s the order in which search results appeared became incredibly important. As the Internet expanded away from just scientists and the military to the general population this became even more important. It became immediately apparent that whoever appeared at the top of the […]
Fallout of the first days of GDPR
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect on May 25 it did not take long for the first complaints to be filed. This should be no surprise, even though Europeans are nowhere near as litigious as us Americans. Among the early targets of these complaints were Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp (the […]
The first search engine
What search engine do you use on the Internet? It’s a hot issue and companies like Google and Microsoft have a vested interest in the way that you answer that question. Search Engines have lead companies like Google to great prosperity and have changed the way that we spend our time on the Internet. That […]
Gmail to be redesigned
User privacy is becoming increasingly important in today’s digital age. Data mining and information sharing has come to the forefront in recent weeks regarding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook and has brought user privacy into the limelight. This covers anything from Facebook to Twitter to email clients like Gmail and has caught the attention of lawmakers […]