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What implications does Facebook eclipsing Google have on the evolution of the web?

It’s a known fact that Google collects, analyzes, and logs all of your Internet traffic and data that passes through them for advertising purposes. As GoogleSharing creator Moxie Marlinspike said: “Google thrives where privacy does not…If you’re like most Internet users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with.” (via The Register). [...]

Google reported on its blog today that the company has been repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers, possibly working for the government, over a span of what could be up to two years. The Mountain View company is using this as an opportunity to finally turn back to their “don’t be evil” philosophy and tell China [...]

Many people made predictions of what 2010 was to hold. Somehow I managed not to stumble across Rik Myslewski’s article in The Register. Whoops. He paints a poignant picture of corporate techno-conspiracy surrounding the growing embrace of cloud computing and the loss of device control as companies such as Apple and Google tell us what [...]

A recent paper from the Columbia Business Law Review by Joshua L. Simmons shows how the government can, and has, been using fourth-parties to acquire your private information. The fourth amendment is supposed to protect us from unlawful search and seizure, however the Supreme Court ruled that acquiring data from third-parties is okay as long [...]

Over at the EFF’s blog Deeplinks there is an eBook Buyer’s Guide to Privacy that highlights aspects of each eReader’s abilities and what information it reports home. If you’ve been thinking about purchasing an eReader it might be good to weigh the pros and cons again before settling if you’re concerned about your privacy when [...]

There is a lot of debate right now as to whether or not Google can be trusted. The Mountain View company has launched a new DNS Service and has begun to profile not just signed-in members but anyone using their search engine. For a long time Google has analyzed all of our Internet traffic that [...]