The Register reports on a recent poll finding that "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them." While I can't vouch for the validity of the poll, it certainly seems…
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Jack Balkin points out that under the new Iraqi constitution (passed with the support of the Bush administration), the NSA spying program would be unconstitutional. According to Article 38:The freedom of communication, and mail, telegraphic, electronic, and telephonic correspondence, and…
Read More Iraqi Constitution Would Ban NSA Surveillance Program
Google has officially launched google.cn, a version of its search service designed to appease the Chinese government's desire to block searches related to Taiwanese or Tibetan independence, the Tiananmen massacre, Falun Gong, etc. CNN posted this statement from Google on…
Katie Hafner of the New York Times writes how some Internet users have changed their search habits now that concerns about government surveillance of web seaches has reached the forefront of the public mind. Among the many anecdotes related in…
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Steven Levy's Newsweek article on the DOJ v. Google issue closes with a prescient warning of the slipper slope allowing government access to web search history would create:Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test,…
Ed Felton has a fabulous post on the privacy implications of the Google Video's DRM technology. In his summation, he captures what the ongoing privacy issues with Google really mean for the company:...Google’s famous “don’t be evil” motto, and customers’…
Following up on the recent Wired News article on how to protect the privacy of your search engine usage, Danny Sullivan has prepared a much more detailed description of the kinds of tracks left behind when using a search engine,…
Simson Garfinkel has a very timely article in the latest Technology Review titled "In Google We Trust." Garfinkel warns of some of the privacy concerns with Google's Gmail, and calls on Google to respond by implementing privacy-protecting policies and design…
Red Herring reports that Verizon Wireless is launching a GPS tracking service called "Verizon Chaperone" so parents can monitor the location of their children via their cellphones. Along with the ability of parents to log into a website to determine…
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…
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