PC World Apr 12, 2011 11:43 am By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Police and other agencies have “enthusiastically embraced” asking for...
Pop quiz! (Don’t worry, it’s easy.) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is: (A) A trade group representing small businesses, like your favorite restaurant or a local car dealership. (B) Related to the United States Department of Commerce, a federal government agency. (C) The official voice of the entire business community. (D) Ruthless lobbyists who...
* The dangers of allowing disproportionate corporate influence over our lives. * Why a constitutional amendment is the best way to defend our democracy from an all-out assault by corporations motivated solely by an unquenchable thirst for profits.
While Bernie Madoff languishes in jail, bankers continue to profit as the poor lose their homes and hope. Aljazeera Danny Schechter Thank you, Bernie, for breaking your silence – even if you are still clinging to that cover-up mode you adopted since you took the entirety of the blame for your crimes. What is...
Speaking as a physician boarded in Family Medicine, I have this to say to you and anyone else who regards this as “tripe”: Sit down and shut up before you make a greater fool of yourself. You have no idea of how utterly screwed you are if this takes effect as planned. I’ve run...
Reuters Feb 11, 2011 By Edmund Blair and Samia Nakhoul CAIRO (Reuters) – Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s president on Friday, handing over to the army and ending three decades of autocratic rule, bowing to escalating pressure from the military and protesters demanding that he go. Vice President Omar Suleiman said a military...
I find it puzzling that while the US government is pressing Egypt’s government to transition it’s government to democracy according to the people’s will, they have never put this much pressure on Communist China. It’s a fact that dictatorial, Communist China is far more repressive to it’s people than Egypt ever was. While Communist...
IDG News Jan 26, 2011 By Jennifer Baker More and more European Union member states are delegating online policing to private companies and Internet service providers, according to a report released Wednesday. Where law enforcement agencies would traditionally have tackled the problem of illegal online content, more powers are being given to ISPs in...
The FCC just blessed the merger of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable and home Internet provider, with NBC Universal. The Justice Department approved the merger, too, leading to the unprecedented consolidation of media and Internet power in the hands of one company. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Wherever you live, the Comcast-NBC merger is...
Infoworld Jan 3, 2011 By Robert X. Cringely It seems Facebook, the social network personally endorsed by God, is now worth more than eBay, Yahoo, and Time Warner — all without selling a single share to Joe or Jane Public. The reason: Wall Street uber-bank Goldman Sachs, which just pumped another $450 million in...
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