Google (Quietly/Oddly) Adds Privacy Link to Homepage

After coming under attack for refusing to add a simple hyperlink to help users find their privacy policy, Google has added the word “privacy”, with a link to its privacy policy, to its home page (image via Google): Google, for…

CEPE 2009: Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry

The call for papers for the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry, to be held June 27-29, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, has been posted: CEPE2009 welcomes high quality paper and panel proposals in all areas of computer/IT ethics. …

CDT’s “The Internet in Transition: A Platform to Keep the Internet Open, Innovative, and Free”

Similar to the Yale Information Society Project's "9.5 Theses" and CFP's "Letter to the Next President," the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has created an issue document targeted to the next President and Congress: "The Internet in Transition: A…

Disrupting Google’s homepage with a 14-charater string

Much of Google's resistance to adding a link to its privacy policy on its homepage seems to boil down to little more than aesthetics. As Steve Langdon, a Google spokesman, puts it: "We do believe that having very limited text…

Comparing Search Engine Privacy Policy Visibility

Prompted by Google's resistance to cluttering its homepage with a link to its privacy policy, I decided to take a quick tour of the major search engines to compare the relative visibility of their privacy policies. AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!…

CFP ’08: Clay Shirky, Konstantinos Karachalios, and a Letter to the President

There have been some exciting developments as we near the Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on "Technology Policy ‘08": We are pleased to announce that Clay Shirky will deliver the closing plenary keynote on Friday lunch (5/23). (See my post…