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Google v Everyone
I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor . Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google. At the incr…
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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
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Health Care
Well, I have little to add to the nattering nabobs out there, but I'm pleased we passed it. As to the post-script, I'm with E.J. : "By temperament…
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WhatApp.org: Now In Beta
There's an app for everything these days. But users often don't have a complete picture of the applications they download and use. Privacy policies are…
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Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think
Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges. User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably thi…
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Interacting as individuals vs. interacting as groups
Brooks today: "...people are usually pretty decent to one another when they relate person to person. The odd thing is that when people relate group to grou…
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SXSW: Location Based Technology Hits Prime Time
I'm enjoying a few days at SXSW to explore the latest things that are going on in the interactive space. I'm enjoying it and tweeting my impressions/tho…
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Taking on Fox News
Howell Raines in the Washington Post: "Under the pretense of correcting a Democratic bias in news reporting, Fox has accomplished something that seemed im…
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Coffee Party USA
I'll be at the Santa Clara coffee party on Saturday. Hope to see you all there! http://coffeepartyusa.com/ "MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives…
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In a sensible country...
Brooks in today's NYT: "In a sensible country, people would see Obama as a president trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism. In a se…
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Blippy.com Shares Intimate Financial Details
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio about online privacy in light of Blipp…
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Google Earth Faces Pressure From Europeans
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to KCBS radio about privacy issues associated with Google's street view imag…