8:17am PST – I’m sitting here listening to a government official grilling a corporate representative on hate speech and how/when/if it is removed. As much as I detest the type of content currently at centerpiece of the discussion, it remains that the notion of the government in any way instructing corporations on how/when/if they must […]
Use Google Drive… ? Oh sure, use it: If you want Google to be able to use, re-use, and plagiarize your work. http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/04/26/google-drive-sparks-privacy-concerns-among-businesses/ If you are ok with Google claiming rights to use your work and content in its ads or potentially make it public to the world (if you forget to flick a certain […]
This latest from Google puts me in mind of an Uncle Remus tale: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/04/16/brin-we-would-not-have-been-able-to-develop-google-if-the-internet-had-been-dominated-by-facebook/ What’s that you say? Facebook is a walled garden? Say it ain’t so! Oh, lawdy, ‘jes don’ put me in the Facebook patch! (Google WISHES it had Facebook’s troubles, press, and market.) Seriously, this has got to be the most ludicrous […]
As reported in this story today by ComputerWorld: Google_faces_class_action_lawsuits_against_new_privacy_policy Two suits, one in New York and the other in California, seek to open class-action litigation against the company for what I have termed “predatory network” activity. The suits leverage allegations including violation of the Federal Wiretap Act, the Stored Electronic Communications Act, and the Computer […]