ResearchMr. Schmidt goes to Washington, gets burned, leaves
Technology companies seem to be having thoughts about their efforts to engage directly in the political process. Read more »
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Technology companies seem to be having thoughts about their efforts to engage directly in the political process. Read more »
Want to call or message people in a secure fashion, without producing centrally logged metadata? BitTorrent wants to help with its new messaging client Bleep. Read more »
Disconnect Mobile, an app from a privacy company that screens for tracking software, reappeared briefly in Google’s Play Store, then vanished again. Read more »
When companies successfully design for online discovery, people are delivered the information they need before they realize they need it. But as Facebookâs newsfeed experiment reminded us, the challenge is to… Read more »
Protesting is useful to a point, but the privacy pack that accompanies Thursday’s Reset The Net campaign could help people make a real difference. Read more »
President Obama finally spoke up in detail about the controversial surveillance practices exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The speech was also significant for what he didn’t say. Read more »
Big money and big policy made headlines this week. On this podcast we talk Google buying Nest, the FCC and net neutrality and bringing back Cray. Read more »
Google intends to buy a connected thermostat that knows when you’re home and where you are within it. Given Google’s quest to index all the world’s information, this deal should jumpstart… Read more »
The revelation that the NSA piggybacks on commercial cookies to track individuals’ web habits could spread the economic fallout from the spying disclosures much more widely, by drawing attention to the… Read more »
We may think we’re used to the potential harms of sharing too much data on social networks, but what happens when passive data collection from sensors can be shared –sometimes without… Read more »