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By: Introducing “Headup Music” and “Social Annotations” - Headup version 1.0.3 release notes | Headup - The Semantic Web browser add-on

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:07:45 +0000

[...] Music is a player designed to boost the way you listen to music online by leveraging Headup’s semantic web engine. Use it [...]

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:12:03 +0000

Hi Adi,
Thanks for writing in.
Your concern regarding privacy is one we share to the extent that we invested a fair degree of thought in making Headup unique in it’s approach to user privacy.

I lifted the following text directly from our privacy policy:

Your privacy using headup in plain English

1. We don’t ask you to register for headup because we don’t need you to.
2. Your personal details are stored on your personal computer, because that’s where they belong. This is one of the reasons we chose to base headup on the Silverlight platform.
3. We have no record of your personal details on our servers so none of us has to worry about them ever being hacked.
4. The only data we collect are unidentifiable usage statistics that we use to figure out how to improve headup and the service we provide.

Still not sure about us?
Why not read our full policy here: http://headup.com/headup-Firefox-extension-privacy.html.

Cheers,
Mike

By: Adi R

Adi R — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:04:55 +0000

Boys and Girls, interesting mashup and all… BUT Epic Fail for failing to fully disclose the Privacy policy.

This thing integrates with browser, will it “Accidentally” or on purpose grab my bank account if I am logged into my bank or credit card company?

What sort of “discover common friends” thing is it. What if they don’t want to be discovered, how are they opting in?

Back to work, make sure to emphasize what data your software extracts/uses and what is it doing to safeguard our privacy!