Here are more good analyses of the DOJ/Google spat:John Batelle thinks (correctly, IMO) this is more about Google protecting trade secrets than its users' privacy.Dan Solove has two important posts related to the broader issues of commerical data aggregation (and…
Day: January 20, 2006
NYT Editorial on DOJ & Google
This New York Times editorial gets it right about what's really at stake with the DOJ v. Google case:...Protecting minors from the nastier material on the Internet is a valid goal; the courts have asked the government to test whether…
Google Blocking Certain Searches
From InsideGoogle:The Email Battles website is claiming that Google and MSN have been blocking searches designed to root out vulnerable PHPBB servers. The website says that, occasionally, query strings commonly used by “script kiddies” are blocked, to prevent them from…
Wired News: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops
Given that concerns over search engine privacy have finally gone mainstream, Wired News provides a brielf article on How to Foil Search Engine Snoops. Check it out.
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