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June 14, 2007|
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"Wired News, with help from some readers, attempted to get real answers from the largest United States-based ISPs about what information they gather on their customers' use of the internet, and how long they retain records like IP addresses, e-mail and re
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Privacy International's has issued its report on a six-month investigation into the privacy practices of key Internet based companies. "The current frenzy to "capture" ad space revenue through the exploitation of new technologies and tools will result in
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"Yahoo shareholders have rejected plans for the company to adopt a policy that opposes censorship on the internet."
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"China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son."
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"When Privacy International, a UK-based watchdog group, released a study on Friday ranking the privacy practices of major internet companies, Google may already have known it would wind up dead last..."
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"Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users."
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"he offers a startlingly honest admission: The Internet is not really his thing. Occasionally he logs on to read up on Tiger Woods's golf scores. But the Web does not excite him too much and e-mail he finds unnecessary."
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"In addition to censoring websites, Thailand’s military government is introducing legislation that will criminalize the use of circumvention tools...like circumvention software and anonymous proxies, to access blocked websites."
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"I see a world where corporations such as Google and Yahoo continue to enrich themselves with little returning to journalistic enterprises, all this ultimately at the expense of legions of professional reporters across America, now out of work because the
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"let’s stop writing and groaning about how things used to be different, and let’s start building our own piece of the new world of newspapers brick by brick, story by story."
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"My impression: we’re at the twilight of the curmudgeon class in newsrooms and J-schools. (Though they can still do a lot of damage.) You know they’re giving up when they no longer bother to inform themselves about what they themselves say is happenin
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A great resource by Mindy McAdams.
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More wonderfully useful stuff from Mindy McAdams.
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