September 2, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

Google to Give User Data To Brazilian Authorities

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 2, 2006in Search Engines, Social Media4 Comments

Here's a good example of the kind of information Google collects from users of its non-search products: The Washington Post is reporting that Google will comply with a Brazilian court order to release data on users of its Orkut social…

Google’s Persistent & Sticky Memory

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 2, 2006in Privacy, Professional, Search Engines

Blogging has been light lately as I'm busy (a) finalizing details for the Identity & Identification in a Networked World symposium at NYU, (b) working out the logistics for my upcoming research trip to Europe (which now also includes a…

Google Personalized Search: Who Owns the Profiles?

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 2, 2006in Search Engines, Social Media

John Battelle repeats an important concern regarding the extensive profiles search engine providers, like Google, are amassing on each user. He quotes Greg Linden's reaction to a Google paper on Bigtable, a distributed storage system: One tidbit I found curious…

FBI shows off huge, multi-source linked database

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 2, 2006in Information Ethics, Internet

The Washington Post reports on the FBI's new counterterrorism database to help the war on terror: The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled…