May 11, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

NSA Collecting Data on All Our Phone Calls

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 11, 2006in Information Law & Policy, Personal Tech, Privacy1 Comment

USA Today reports that the NSA has been secretly collecting the phone call records of virtually all American citizens who have recently used a phone, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth: The NSA program reaches into homes and…

Page & Brin on (Not) Being Evil

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 11, 2006in Privacy, Search Engines

InternetNews has a warm & fuzzy recount of a press event with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin where they provide a lot of doublespeak in response to growing concerns that recent actions by Google violate their "Don't be…