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...Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge James Ware ordered Google to turn over a sampling of users’ search queries to the Justice Department. The government claims it needs Google??€™s data to show that young people are getting around software intended to prevent them from seeing pornography. As with any case that raises privacy concerns, Ware was responsible for weighing competing claims: Google??€™s right to protect its data against the government’s need for information to enforce (and, in this situation, evaluate) its laws. In this case Ware made the wrong decision...
...beginning of this column (which is a part of the Prelinger Archives of ephemeral films). The Archive advertises itself as a place to store information, and it accepts contributions. Since it’s a nonprofit organization that relies largely on donations to operate, it lacks some of Google??€™s punch when it comes to brute-force digitization of old works. Libraries, including our own, which have been working on this problem for the better part of the past decade, face similar financial woes.The importance of digitization goes well beyond the mere benefits of secure storage and widespread...
...going to compete, it’s going to need to give its users equally good guarantees on their network, ahead of ordinary Internet traffic.Other breaches of end-to-end are in the works as well. Some Internet providers, struggling in competitive and costly markets, have expressed discontent with Google??€™s soaring profits. After all, a big component of Google??€™s success is that Verizon and Comcast are willing to deliver all of Google??€™s ads to their millions of subscribers. Verizon, among others, has proposed charging tariffs on sites like Google and Amazon...
...which I am a member, proved its unnecessary belligerence by electing a man with the subtlety of a falling brick to the post of presidency. I will not be mentioning his real name because there is no need to taint posterity—and by posterity I mean Google??€”with his folly forever; people deserve a second-chance, after all. But actions also have consequences, and so this is one. Let us call...
...rate at which technologically-charged action verbs enter our vocabulary these days is staggering.What’s perhaps most peculiar about these verbs, however, is that the majority of them seem to come from nouns. Sometimes it’s the name of a company—surely Google??€™s marketers are happy that their firm’s name has seeped into the common lexicon (though the company’s lawyers have been known to send out nasty letters to those who use the word publicly without an obvious reference to the search software giant...