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Debunking Matt Cutts
The Google Toolbar doesn't fuel Google's index, nor is Google working hand in hand with the Central Intelligence Agency, even if Google did buy Keyhole, once backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm.
Date: 2006-12-12
CIA Quizzes Would-Be James Bonds Online
The tradecraft of decades ago, where spy recruiters would go forth to make surreptitious contacts with potential agents, has a complementary modern tool online to gain interest from the CIA's desired audience.
Date: 2006-11-28
Wikipedia No Longer Banned In China
Almost one year to the day after the Chinese government placed a ban on both the English and Chinese-language versions of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, both have been lifted.
Date: 2006-11-17
On Net Neutrality
Jeffrey Hermes, a litigation partner at Boston law firm Brown Rudnick, whom I’ve sourced for a previous article on libel as it applies to podcasting, was a little late responding for an article on how the midterm elections would affect the Network Neutrality debate.
Date: 2006-11-10
Does Google Have CIA Ties?
Robert David Steele a former clandestine services case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency says Google and the CIA are “in bed” with one another. He made the remarks on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio show.
Date: 2006-11-01
Google Involved In Digital Democracy
The 2006 elections mark a new era in the way that candidates for various political offices are promoting their platforms to the voting public.
Date: 2006-10-24
Austin Paper Offers Blogs To Local Politicos
The Austin American-Statesman has an open offer to host blogs for candidates for office from the Central Texas area.
Date: 2006-10-10
More Government Computers Disappear
This is probably going to sound terribly familiar, but here it is: hundreds of government computers have gone missing.
Date: 2006-09-26
EFF Raises A FLAG
The FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government project will use Freedom of Information Act requests to expose the more egregious infringements on privacy by the federal government.
Date: 2006-09-12
Canada Denies Request To Block Hate Content
Canadian telecom regulators denied the request of a Jewish human rights lawyer, asking the government to allow Internet service providers to block access to U.S.-based white supremacist's websites.
Date: 2006-08-29
EFF Calls For AOL Investigation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AOL over its ill-considered release of search data from over 650,000 users.
Date: 2006-08-15
The Russians Are Everywhere
There are two truisms in the technology world that few in government want to state with any conviction - intellectual property piracy is rampant in China, and online crime operates unabated in Russia.
Date: 2006-08-01
India Blocks Access Major Blog Sites
The Indian government was accused of censorship after the Department of Telecommunications was found to have given directives to regional Internet service providers to block access to blogspot.com, typepad.com and geocities.
Date: 2006-07-18
Senate Mulls 'Net Neutrality Lite'
The cries of a million or so petitioners have made it a little farther into the aural canals of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Stevens has offered up a compromise on Network Neutrality in a provision one critic is calling "Net Neutrality Lite."
Date: 2006-06-20
Irrepressible.Info Fights Censorship
A new site developed by Amnesty International with the help of long-time supporter The Observer UK and the Open Net Initiative provides a way to republish snippets of content from websites banned by various governments on one's blog or site.
Date: 2006-05-30
DoJ Files To Dismiss AT&T Spying Suit
The Department of Justice waited until the wee hours of early morning on May 13th to file a motion to dismiss a suit brought against AT&T over its monitoring of communications.
Date: 2006-05-16
Government Intervenes In AT&T Case
The federal government wants the case brought against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation dismissed on the grounds of military and state secrets privilege.
Date: 2006-05-02
States
Look To Tax Your Digital Assets Off
More and more states, especially ones with Democrat controlled legislatures,
CNet points out, are dipping into the digital media pot by imposing
taxes on purchased downloads.
Date: 2006-04-18
Cuban Man Hunger Strikes For Internet Access
There'll be no puns here for the subject of this article-no "hunger for this" or "dying for that"-puns, a lower form of humor they say, would denigrate the tribulation of a journalist and his newborn raison d'etre-like calling a spoof a sincere flattery. Simply, a Cuban man has embarked on a hunger strike in an effort to win unrestricted access to the World Wide Web.
Date: 2006-03-14
Microsoft Hopes Transparency To Make A Difference
With the EU refusing to be reasonable and the vultures circling
the wagons, Microsoft has decided to try a weapon not normally found in their
repetoire: transparency. Microsoft announced it would post on the web Thursday...
Date: 2006-02-27
Microsoft Plan To Boost Portugal Economy
Microsoft has said it will carry out 18 technology projects in Portugal as a way of boosting the country's lagging economy.
Date: 2006-02-06
MySQL Joins The Feds
The General Services Administration, procurement office to the government, has
awarded a 5-year contract to MySQL AB for placement in its listings for purchase
by federal agencies. Carahsoft Technology provides various IT solutions to government
levels from federal down through local ones. A new GSA contract...
Date: 2006-01-17
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