Posts Tagged Google
Google’s EU warning over Street View privacy
on 26/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Police State, Comments Off
Google has been told by European Union data privacy regulators to warn people before it sends cameras out to take pictures for its Street View maps.
Systematic Destruction Of Internet Freedom
on 25/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Police State, Comments Off
‘The ruling was the first of its kind in history and was condemned by critics as “the biggest threat to internet freedom we have seen”. America’s ambassador to Italy, David Throne, condemned the decision, saying that freedom of the internet was vital for democracy.
The trial centred on footage posted on Google Videos, of an autistic teenager and who was being bullied by four other boys, at a Turin school. The footage was posted in September 2006 and became the most viewed where it remained for two months before finally being removed. Prosecutors in Milan brought the case after being contacted by the charity Viva Down and argued that the boys privacy had been violated and that Google should have removed the footage quicker than it eventually did.’
‘Internet Enforcement’ Copyright Treaty Leaks Online
on 23/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Police State, Comments Off
Cory Doctorow writes on BoingBoing:
Someone has uploaded a PDF to a Google Group that is claimed to be the proposal for Internet copyright enforcement that the USA has put forward for ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Guadalajara, Mexico.
This reads like it probably is genuine treaty language, and if it is the real US proposal, it is the first time that this material has ever been visible to the public. According to my source, the US proposal is the current version of the treaty as of the conclusion of the Mexico round.
I’ve read it through a few times and it reads a lot like DMCA-plus. It contains, for example, a duty to technology firms to shut down infringement where they have “actual knowledge” that…
Google Denies Sales of Alex Jones’ New Film
on 20/02/2010 (4 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Police State, Comments Off
The film criticizes Obama’s administration, but when he went to sell it on google’s shopping site, he was told he couldn’t.
Alex Jones & Webster Tarpley On The Draconian Internet Takeover
on 06/02/2010 by NW0.eu in Police State, Comments Off
Alex Jones and Webster Tarpley discuss Google’s announcement that it will tighten its relationship with the NSA and how this is another leap forward in the agenda to take over and regulate the free Internet under the cover of fighting foreign cyber spies in China and Russia.
Google Removes Encyclopedia Dramatica Link
on 25/01/2010 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
From ZDNET Australia: Google has agreed to remove from its search index links to a satirical website that allegedly promotes racist views of indigenous Australians. Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently […]
China’s Internet Controls Here to Stay: Beijing Official
on by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Reuters Monday, January 25th, 2010 China has every right to punish citizens using the Internet to challenge Communist Party power and ethnic policies, a senior official said on Monday, pressing […]
“The Science is Scuttled” – NASA climate page, suckered by IPCC, deletes their own ‘moved up’ glacier melting date reference
on 24/01/2010 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
And the purge begins.
Google: Keep user data safe by letting us hoard it forever
on 20/01/2010 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Google has sought to turn its China crisis to its advantage by arguing it demonstrates why it should be allowed to hang onto search logs indefinitely.
Google probing possible inside help on attack
on 18/01/2010 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters today.
Chinese Operation Against Google Involved Accessing the Firm’s Internal Intercept Systems
on 15/01/2010 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Cryptogon Thursday, January 14, 2009 Via: Computer World: Drummond said that the hackers never got into Gmail accounts via the Google hack, but they did manage to get some “account […]
Psycho France Plans ‘Google Tax’ On Internet Searches
on 09/01/2010 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
‘The levy on advertising revenue is the latest plank in France’s drive to regulate the internet, which has seen it enact some of the world’s toughest antipiracy legislation. Besides Google, […]
Did Google Steal From Philip K. Dick’s Brain?
on 18/12/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Great observation from Charlie Jane Anders of io9.com:
Philip K. Dick’s daughter, Isa Dick-Hackett, is considering suing Google because their phone handset may be called the Nexus One.
The Replicants in Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? were Nexus-6 models.
Would you want a Roy Batty phone?
Read More on io9.com
Climategate: ABC filters working beautifully
on 06/12/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun Thursday, Dec 3rd, 2009 Number of results returned when searching “Climategate” on Google: 21,400,000 Number of results returned when searching “Climategate” on ABC Online: One. One […]
Search Engines Censoring ClimateGate?
on 01/12/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
‘A fantastic article written by Christopher Brooker of the London Telegraph exposing the climate change fraud rocketed to the very top of a Google News search for “global warming,” […]
