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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NYT Editorial on DOJ & Google
This New York Times editorial gets it right about what's really at stake with the DOJ v. Google case:...Protecting minors from the nastier material on the Internet is a valid goal; the courts have asked the government to test whether…
Google Blocking Certain Searches
From InsideGoogle:The Email Battles website is claiming that Google and MSN have been blocking searches designed to root out vulnerable PHPBB servers. The website says that, occasionally, query strings commonly used by “script kiddies” are blocked, to prevent them from…
Wired News: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops
Given that concerns over search engine privacy have finally gone mainstream, Wired News provides a brielf article on How to Foil Search Engine Snoops. Check it out.
Patriot Search: Help the government by making your search activity public
In response to government efforts to access your search history. Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped provides the Patriot Search engine, which "allows you to help governments around the world by making your search activity public." Hilarious. I especially like its…
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DOJ Wants Your Google Search History – Google Resists
Something I have long warned about appears to be happening. The Mercury News reports:Bush Lawyers Ask Judge To Make Google Hand Over Data; Google Promises A Fight The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc.…
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Data Collection for Traffic Avoidance Systems
Technology Review has a new article on traffic avoidance systems, focusing on the software firm Inrix, who is working towards better methods of forecasting traffic congestion "hours and even days in advance." Its interesting stuff, but this passage is somewhat…
Faith in the Algorithm
This Economist article on Google co-founder Larry Page has been getting a lot of attention due to its closing statements on Google's reported desire build a machine that will pass the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test"Turing test, and how Google wants to be…
iTunes Now Asks for Consent Before Collecting Data
Following up on the earlier story about the new Apple iTunes MiniStore feature that collects and sends user data to Apple, Cory Doctorow reports that iTunes now asks for explicit user consent before activating this feature: The MiniStore was switched…
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Transparency in GoogleNews
Following up on earlier concerns, Jeff Jarvis reports that GoogleNews is including news articles from the far-right British National Party. While I have previsouly disagreed with Jeff that certain "news" is inherently more valid than other "news" for inclusion in…
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