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Network Management Data Reduction and Smoothing -- A MySQL Webinar
ScienceLogic embeds MySQL in its EM7 network management appliances. An
installation of EM7 can perform over half a billion database queries
daily, storing massive amounts of data for both real-time and trended
performance reporting.
Michael McFadden, senior software architect with ScienceLogic, will discuss all this in an upcoming MySQL webinar.
By now, it should be commonly known that Google has bent its privacy policy to address concerns expressed by EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Group. Google will make data anonymous in its server logs after 18 months. According to Financial Times, and prior to the agreement, "Google cookies are set to expire after 30 years" (June 12, 2007). Google FAQs on privacy should probably give the current cookie lifetime. (In fact, it should ideally be possible for any user to examine the properties of Google cookie(s) on a known Google web page linked through its privacy FAQs.)
Ellen Nakashima has been reporting on data and privacy for The Washington Post. See her reports on legal issues, delays and the EU scene.
As more data is collected by various web services, search engines, e-commerce web sites and portals, data and privacy questions continue to be debated.