Several experts in digital music say that the music locker business is still legally ambiguous. For example, though some companies let people upload their music and listen to it elsewhere without any outcry from the labels, others, like MP3tunes, have been sued by music labels. Another issue: it is impossible for Web companies to tell whether a song was bought legally or downloaded illegally. Amazon says it has sidestepped the problem, because its users would upload their songs, in MP3 or A.A.C. format, to the cloud-based service, just like backing them up on an external hard drive or a Web-based computer backup service. “We don’t need a license to store music,” said Craig Pape, director of music at Amazon. “The functionality is the same as an external hard drive.”

“Information is the gold or the oil of the economy in the information age,” said Paul M. Schwartz, a law professor and expert in information technology at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Schwartz said Facebook seemed to have learned quickly that demands for regulation would pile up, not just from users and advocacy groups but from competitors.

A group of U.S. senators is calling on Apple to remove applications that alert users to the presence of police and other law enforcement checkpoints that have been set up to combat drunk driving

“When they use Latitude, they become a Google agent,” said Yann Padova, secretary general of the privacy agency, the National Commission for Information Technology and Freedoms.

IMAGINE you are a venture capitalist. One day a man comes to you and says, “I want to build the game layer on top of the world.”

L’analyse menée sur ces données par la CNIL a permis de constater que GOOGLE avait enregistré, outre des données techniques (identifiants SIID et adresses MAC des points d’accès Wi-Fi), de nombreuses données concernant des particuliers, identifiés ou identifiables (données de connexion à des sites web, mots de passe de messagerie, adresses de courrier électronique, échanges de courriels révélant notamment des informations sensibles sur l’orientation sexuelle ou la santé des personnes).