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…
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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…
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…
Your Google Searches as Evidence?
Prosecutors claim a man on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: "neck snap break" and "hold" before she was killed. Apparently the case doesn't hinge only on the defendant's search…
AdAge: Search Engine Ad Technologies Raise Privacy Concerns
Advertising Age is reporting[registration req'd] on a recent industry panel disucssion on the privacy concerns with personalized search and targeted advertising. As Yahoo and Microsoft roll out more sophisticated search-advertising services relying on heavier use of personal data, they are…
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Concerns Over the Corporate Nature of Google
Peter Rock-Lacroix questions whether we should place faith in Google to "do no evil" when it comes to protecting copyrights (an argument I think can also be extended to their role in the protection of the privacy of its users):Google's…
Panel: Don’t Be Evil: Political, Culture and Ethical Aspects of Google
NYU's Department of Culture & Communication (my department) is holding its annual Graduate Student Conference on November 11, 2005, where I will be on a panel on Google: Don't Be Evil: Political, Culture and Ethical Aspects of Google Google has…
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Symposium on “Regulating Search?”
The Yale Information Society Project is hosting a symposium on "Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy": Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is…
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