The revelation that Google Inc. is partnering with the National Security Agency to probe a widespread cyber attack has quickened the pulse of privacy advocates.
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Google, NSA Partnership Raises Privacy Hackles
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Google asking spy agency for help
Google has apparently gone to the super secret National Security Agency seeking help in preventing cyber attacks.
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Steve Jobs blasts Google’s ‘Don’t be evil’ motto
The tech blogosphere is buzzing with Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ assessment of Google’s…
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Googling Obama’s China policy
Google’s ties to the Obama administration are perhaps unrivaled in corporate America, but the Internet giant’s announcement this week that it’s considering pulling out of China because of Chinese censorship and hacker attacks put the White House in a tricky spot. "They like to go around and sing the mantra, ‘Don’t be evil,’" said
John Simpson, a consumer advocate with the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog.
"But they almost always act in what they perceive to be Google’s
interest – and that doesn’t necessarily coincide with that of any
government."
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Google May Leave China In Wake Of Hacker Attacks
The Internet firm says it will stop the scorned practice of censoring users’ search results.
Public interest groups lauded Google’s move to stop censoring search results. "While Google should never have agreed to censor search results in
China in the first place, it is doing the right thing by ending the
practice now," said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog.
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Can Google Be Trusted? No: The Search Engine Must Do More To Protect Private Data
Few doubt that Internet giant Google is succeeding in its audacious
corporate mission "to organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful." The problem is that the mission
puts Google directly at odds with our privacy rights, and Google
appears unwilling to give consumers enough control.
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Will City of L.A. jump into Google’s cloud?
I spent all afternoon Monday waiting at the LA City Council Budget Committee to give the Council members my two minutes on why Google’s proposal to put the City’s computing into its cloud could be dangerous. In a nutshell: Security,…
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DOJ Asks Court to Reject Google Book Search, Pending Changes
The Department of Justice said the Google Book Search settlement would violate class action, copyright and antitrust law and said it should not be approved without changes. Consumer advocates were joyous about the DOJ’s finding: "This is a victory for consumers and the broad public
interest," said John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with Consumer
Watchdog. "Consumer Watchdog supports digitization and digital
libraries in a robust competitive market open to all organizations,
both for-profit and non-profit, that offer fundamental privacy
guarantees to users. But a single entity cannot be allowed to build a
digital library based on a monopolistic advantage when its answer to
serious questions from responsible critics boils down to: ‘Trust us.
Our motto is "Don’t be evil."’"
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DOJ: Google’s Book Settlement Needs Rewrite
The U.S. Department of Justice late Friday urged the court overseeing Google’s book search settlement with authors and publishers to reject the settlement in its current form, although it strongly hinted that the parties are flexible on certain provisions.
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Google seeks spinmeisters
Internet giant Google is seeking communications personnel to get its story out to the world and counter what it calls negative press.
According to an …