Philipp Lenssen points to this report that a group of people from Students for a Free Tibet gathered in front of the Googleplex to protest against Google bowing to Chinese censorship requests. From SFT's press release:"Students and young people worldwide…
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77% of Google users don’t know it records personal data
The Register reports on a recent poll finding that "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them." While I can't vouch for the validity of the poll, it certainly seems…
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Google Now Officially Censoring In China
Google has officially launched google.cn, a version of its search service designed to appease the Chinese government's desire to block searches related to Taiwanese or Tibetan independence, the Tiananmen massacre, Falun Gong, etc. CNN posted this statement from Google on…
NYT: Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search
Katie Hafner of the New York Times writes how some Internet users have changed their search habits now that concerns about government surveillance of web seaches has reached the forefront of the public mind. Among the many anecdotes related in…
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The Slipperly Slope of DOJ v. Google
Steven Levy's Newsweek article on the DOJ v. Google issue closes with a prescient warning of the slipper slope allowing government access to web search history would create:Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test,…
Google Video and Privacy
Ed Felton has a fabulous post on the privacy implications of the Google Video's DRM technology. In his summation, he captures what the ongoing privacy issues with Google really mean for the company:...Google’s famous “don’t be evil” motto, and customers’…
In Google We Trust
Simson Garfinkel has a very timely article in the latest Technology Review titled "In Google We Trust." Garfinkel warns of some of the privacy concerns with Google's Gmail, and calls on Google to respond by implementing privacy-protecting policies and design…
More Links on DOJ v. Google
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…
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…
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