Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
[Note: please be sure to read the comments with responses from Google’s Alexander Macgillivray] Joris van Hoboken recently brought this section of the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement to my attention: Section 3.7(e) Google’s Exclusion of Books Google may, at…
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has published an unofficial Google Censorship FAQ where he answers over 35 questions related to Google’s censorship activities. Highlights include: What does Google censor? It depends on the country. In Germany, Google censors certain Nazi…
Part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s justification for being complicit with China’s censorship of search engine results is that Google does the same thing in Germany and France, so what’s the big deal with time around. Consider this recent statement:…
I was quoted in today’s Washington Square News about recent edits to NYU President John Sexton’s article on Wikipedia. Since the recent labor disupte with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, various additions were made to Sexton’s page that, IMO, violated…
Nathan Weinberghas posted some excellent excerpts form today’s congressional hearings with various IT companies regarding thier actions in China. Here are some highlights: The Associated Press: Rep. Tom Lantos, ranking Democrat on the International Relations Committee, told the company officials…
Dan Solove points to this Salon article that reveals how Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals engaging in criticism and…
The concern over content selection at GoogleNews continues on Buzzmachine. I’ve had various reactions, which can be found throughout the comment threads, and in my earlier post on transparency. Allow me to highlight three more issues: SourcesThis issue first arose…
Jeff Jarvis recently demanded more transparency in GoogleNews: We’re demanding transparency of mainstream news. Well, it’s high time we get transparency from GoogleNews. Instapundit and LGF point to a nazi site — complete with “love your race” graphics — that…
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