Whether Google committed actual crimes or civil violations of individual privacy rights with its wi-spy data collection activities will be decided based on the laws and courts of various countries pursuing Google around the world. But it’s Google’s continuing stonewalling that makes the cover-up seem worse than even the underlying acts. Like Google collecting the [...]
The Media Access Project, which is challenging a 2007 FCC regulatory decision that weakened the rules restricting local media monopolies, was unsure whether the Third Circuit of the Court of Appeals will overturn that FCC decision after oral arguments. “It is pretty hard to figure out what is going to happen here,” said [MAP's Andrew] [...]
In response to a request by Consumer Watchdog for hearings on Google’s attempt to collect the social security numbers of children through its Doodle-4-Google contest, Reps. Ed Markey, D-MA, and Joe Barton, R-TX, co-chairmen of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, have agreed to hold hearings. Here’s their joint statement: “We are deeply disturbed by recent [...]
One of the illusions generated by the images of spiffy cubicle caverns in Silicon Valley with employees skateboarding down the halls is the idea that we are in a post-industrial age of clean and safe technology. Unfortunately, we’ve just exported some of the nastiest parts of the process overseas, as Apple’s 2011 Supplier Responsibility Progress [...]
The picture attached to this post shows hard drives seized from Google by South Korea authorities, which last month revealed that Google through its Street View project had “harvested and stored “hundreds of thousands of e-mails, instant messages and other personal data.” The investigation conducted by Korean authorities reveals that personal data belonging to roughly [...]
