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Federal judge allows National Security Agency to dodge question about ties to Google

donal brown July 14, 2011

A federal judge is allowing the National Security Agency to avoid answering the question about a possible relationship between the agency and Google after the China hacking incident of January 2010. The judge said NSA ruled the agency only had  state it can “neither confirm nor deny” that it has a relationship with Google.-db From a release from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, July 13, 2011. Full release

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Electronic Frontier Foundation urges Cisco and Microsoft to stop enabling Chinese oppression

donal brown July 14, 2011

An Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion piece argues that Microsoft and Cisco are more interested in abetting China’s repressive regime than taking a stand for freedom. With Google abandoning the search market in China rather than submit to censorship, Microsoft has recently stepped into the void by agreeing with Baidu to provide Bing web search services in English and to self-censor its search results. After coming under scrutiny for helping create China’s internet firewall and assisting

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WikiLeaks founder says social media operate as tools for U.S. intelligence

donal brown May 3, 2011

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.” Assange pointed out that a trove of information about people, their relationships, conversations and locations exists on the social media and that U.S. intelligence agencies could bring pressure on Facebook, Yahoo, Google and others to extract that information. -db From NextWeb, May 2, 2011, by Matt Brian. Full story

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Federal appeals court rules lower court must unseal Google report

donal brown April 18, 2011

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted MediaPost’s request for a court document with details of Google’s compliance with an order for it to deactivate a Gmail user’s account. The court ruled the district court had not made the case that the public had no right to access the report. The dispute originated with a bank who had mistakenly sent sensitive customer data to a Gmail address and asked Google to provide information about

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Free speech: United States web site taken down for advocating violence

donal brown November 11, 2010

Google has removed a site, RevolutionMuslim.com, after British authorities complained that the site ran a post that included a list of British lawmakers who voted for the Iraq war and called for Muslims to “raise the knife of Jihad” against them -db The New York Times November 5, 2010 By Ravi Somaiya LONDON — A United States-based extremist Islamic Web site was taken down on Friday after the British authorities complained of a post praising

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