Google recently released an enhancement to their AdWords paid search results called "Click-to-Call." When you click the phone icon on an AdWords ad, you enter your phone number and Google calls the number you provided. When you pick up, you…
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A Risky Gamble With Google
Siva Vaidhyanathan's article on the Google Library project in the Chronicle of Higher Education is well worth a read: "A Risky Gamble with Google" I have to confess, I am thrilled and dazzled by the potential of such a machine…
What Google Should Roll Out Next: A Privacy Upgrade
From the New York Times Editorial Observer: "What Google Should Roll Out Next: A Privacy Upgrade." Nothing that new here for those who follow the privacy implications of Google, but it's good that attention to the issue is broadening. Here…
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For Google, Good Intentions Might Not Be Enough
Lauren Weinstein writes about the risks of Google:Google currently represents virtually a textbook example of the complex interplay between innovative, socially positive inventions and developments on one hand, and oppressively dangerous technological arrogance on the other. Or as the fictional…
Google Analytics and End User Privacy
Phil Bogle has an important post on the privacy implications of the new Google Analystics website traffic measuring product:The thing that's a little bit disappointing is that Google used their standard search engine terms of service and privacy policy with…
Ten (Easy) Ways to Protect Your Privacy
EPIC's Chris Hoofnagle posts his Consumer Privacy Top 10, ten things US consumers can do to safeguard their privacy. I agree with Michael Froomkin that this list stands apart because it suggests actions that are very do-able.1. OPT OUT OF…
Reading the Google Tea Leaves
Tristan Louis has provided an excellent summary of Google's growing product suite and how it matches up to their main competitors (MSN, Yahoo, AOL), while wondering if Google is really all that innovative or whether they are just trying to…
Anti-iPod Movement
An article in the Globe and Mail discusses the growing anti-iPod movement:If we can draw a lesson from Yegor Sak's adventure, it's never to underestimate the public's desire to watch an iPod be destroyed.We know this, because Sak, a 19-year-old…
More Cellphone Surveillance
Examples of surveillance and tracking via cellphone are emerging at a rapid pace lately. Business Week reports on several cell-phone tracking services available in Korea. According to the article, more than four million Koreans have signed up for services that…
Data Retention in Europe
The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.What’s wrong with data retention? The proposal…
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