The answer is yes. In yesterday's stockholder meeting, Sergey Brin noted that Chinese users haven't yet flocked to the censored Google.cn service, noting that usage of Google.cn is just a fraction of one percent of Google searches in China, while…
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NSA Collecting Data on All Our Phone Calls
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
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…
Lauren Weinstein: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative
Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility, has written an open letter to Google outlining "Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative." Highlights include: Increasingly, Internet users are becoming highly sensitized to both perceived and real risks to their privacy…
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Google to Rank Results Based on Domain Name Information?
Search Engine Watch speculates that Google might start using WHOIS information in their ranking of web pages. A recent patent application filed by Google, Information retrieval based on historical data, hints at the possible use of domain information in the…
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Boston Globe: Online Plagiarism Strikes Blog World
The Boston Globe has a story today about plagiarism in blogs. I've previously commented on blog plagiarism - blogiarism - in terms of stealing content in order to drive readers to your site to capitalize on advertising revenue. The Globe's…
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Google on Transparency
At a panel on Internet Censorship in China at the Computers Freedom and Privacy conference, Google's senior policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin a set of principles to help Google cope with censorship in China and elsewhere: Disclose censorship to users. Google's…
Sprint Offers Family Locator Cellphone Tracking
Sprint recently launched its Family Locator cellphone tracking program, entering the growing market of GPS-based cellphone surveillance products. Sprint has apparently engaged in value-sensitive design of this service: The child is notified by a text message each time his or…
Google Sued for Child Porn
Google is being sued for profiting from child pornography: Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic representative in New York's Nassau County Legislature, charged in a complaint filed Thursday that Google has been taking in billions of dollars by allowing child pornography and…
Does Rupert Murdoch Own your MySpace Content?
The Register reports on shifting MySpace terms of service which could mean that content posted by teenagers today might show up on the front page of the New York Post 10 years from now. Originally, the MySpace ToS granted the…
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