In the wake of finding out that Google's Street View cars had "accidentally" captured 600 gigabytes of personal data, the German government demands the Internet giant come up with new privacy regulations by December 7.READ»
The debate over old-media news versus new Net-generation news usually rumbles on with all the fiery theatrics of a party sparkler. But not today: Google's injecting some volcanic ire. It's not new to talk about how Net technology is ...READ»
Spammers can only operate for so long before they're found out and shut down. Once eradicated, they leave a virtual ghost town behind them. Scores of Internet addresses have been abandoned this way, says The Washington Post, creating ...READ»
Regulators in Europe have approved a new law that would require users to approve each cookie stored by their Web browser. Cookies are little informative tags that tell a Web site details about your last visit there.
The EU Council ...READ»
Google's public policy blog admits that Google Voice blocks certain numbers. AT&T says this would be illegal were Google treated like any other telecom. But Google claims that if it doesn't engage in blocking, its service will ...READ»
The FCC is trying to understand why AT&T is fighting Google Voice. When all is said and done, will they find that AT&T is justified? Google claims that AT&T is trying to get legislators to treat Google Voice just like ...READ»
Today FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski took to the stage at CTIA and outlined his agency's plan to handle the welter of wireless transmissions coming in the next decade. The goal: 4G, as fast as possible. According to Mashable, the ...READ»
On Friday, the FCC launched a new crowd-sourcing platform to try to generate some consensus on the direction of the agency's National Broadband Plan. Built by IdeaScale in the style of Digg and Reddit, popular voting-based social news ...READ»
The popular peer-to-peer torrent network Pirate Bay will not go quietly. That's the message of deliberate attacks on the Pirate Bay's Internet service provider, perpetrated today as the company attempted to comply with a Swedish ...READ»
Proposed changes to the way the nation's media watchdog does its business will mean more transparency for citizens--and bad news for secretive consumer-electronics companies.READ»
This week, Comcast announced it would begin the first official commercial rollout of 4G wireless broadband in the U.S. in Portland, Oregon, after using Baltimore and Atlanta as test markets. The company plans to bundle the WiMAX ...READ»
Carbon cap-and-trade efforts are becoming one long chain of unintended consequences. To whit: Greenpeace released a report arguing that allowing official trade in carbon credits representing forest preservation would crash the price ...READ»
In another nod to his alleged "free-market" principles, President Bush has expressed disapproval of the free nationwide Wi-Fi proposal being considered by the FCC and Congress. It's an inauspicious time to decry helpful...READ»
With word that Barack Obama has settled on his energy and environment team, the future is, not surprisingly, out west, as The Wall Street Journal notes this morning. And that makes the probablity of more environmental regulation for ...READ»
While a clever virus runs rampant on the social networks, the UK blocks Wikipedia for hosting an image of an album cover showing a naked girl. Is cyber-security broken?READ»
