With their recent push to get the citizens of Planet Google to start using Google Checkout, Google's growing infrastructure of dataveillance now includes purchasing data. From Google Checkout's privacy policy: Registration information - When you sign up for Google Checkout,…
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The Disciplinary Gaze of Web Search Engines
Blogging has been light (again), as I've been preparing for my final conference trip. This time, I'm in San Antonio, TX for the 92nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. I'm presenting on an amazing panel titled "Visualizing Security:…
Google to Support User Data Portability?
In an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, Googel CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google would like users to be able to have portability with their search history data: Schmidt said he would like users to be able to export…
NYT: Planet Google Wants You
The New York Times is running an article (in their "Fashion & Style" section??) on the increasing ubiquity of Google in people's everyday lives: Planet Google Wants You. It starts with a choice quote from an NYU law student: “I…
The Google YouTube Tango
In one corner, we have the Googlization of virtually every aspect of our online (and increasingly offline) activities, tracking your every move. In the other corner, we have the increased corporatization of Web 2.0, also interested in watching everything you…
I want my Google Data Privacy
Gene at Fred's House sounds like one of the multitude who are beginning to embrace the "Google lifestyle": I look around my desktop and I see Google Reader, Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Toolbar, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google News,…
United States v. Google?
Nick Carr wonders if, in the spirit of US v. IBM in 1969 and US v. MSFT in 1994, we'll eventually see an anti-trust case brought against Google. Google currently holds a dominant 44 percent share of the web search…
Google & YouTube
About the only news that could rival North Korea's announcement of a nuclear test is the fact that Google announced its intention to buy YouTube. Not surprisingly, my first reaction is concern over the incredible data-mining opportunity this represents for…
File under “Irony”
Right after the folks at Google bragged about their "Google Security Team," the company's official blog was hacked, and a fake blog post announced their decision to cancel the (controversial) "Click-to-Call" program. (screenshot here)
That horrid Google…On the prowl!
In 1913, Vincent Cartwright Vickers wrote The Google Book, a children's book full of fanciful birds, including one called a "google": The sun is setting -- Can't you hear A something in the distance Howl!!? I wonder if it is…
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