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Gmailosaurus

It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.”  (What’s “wired”?  Worrying about privacy on Goog…

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The Traditions of Knoweldge II

In a previous post, the Traditions of Knowledge I referred to the appropriation of traditional knowledge by means of industrial revolution intellectual property…

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The Traditions of Knowledge

Conventional intellectual property laws claim to confer rights only on knowledge that is  individually authored, reduced to material form and 'original'…

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Why SDNY, Why?

Wired's Threat Level is reporting that a court (the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) has ordered Google "to turn over every r…

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Self-flattery

David Frum in the NYT Book Review: "You do not need to be a partisan of a political movement to write its history. But you do need enough imaginative sympa…

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Google Adds Privacy Link, Videos

I notice that Google now has a privacy policy link on its homepage. Congratulations to Marc and others who pushed for this. It's tempting to view this move…

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Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy

My friend Sanjana sent me an interesting blog post from the NYT today on privacy. Brad Stone: "We all cherish our privacy. Then we go and divulge everythin…