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Google Street View in the News

Friday, February 5, 2010

Vancouver property owners and an arbor service have been charged with illegal removal of trees from the owner’s property.  A Vancouver bylaw requires property owners receive a permit to remove trees greater than 20 cm in diameter, and the owners have been charged with the unpermitted removal of over 20 trees.  The penalty for each [...]

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Google Trial Begins

Sunday, October 4, 2009

In 2006 a video was posted on YouTube of four Italian teenagers taunting another teenager with Down’s Syndrome.  Some months later Italian authorities notified Google of the video.  Google removed it, but its troubles did not end.  Civil and criminal charges were brought against four Google executives for violating Italian privacy law by not obtaining [...]

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No Expectation of Privacy

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Last year a Pittsburgh couple sued Google in federal court for invasion of privacy because photographic images of their home appeared in Google’s Street View.  They claimed $25k in damages for “mental suffering” and sought removal of the images.  Yesterday the trial court threw out their suit for failing to state a claim–in other words, [...]

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Google v Cuil, Round 1

Monday, July 28, 2008

There’s news today about Cuil–pronounced “cool”–a new search engine created by former Google techies.  Based on my comparison so far I’m not ready to replace “google that” with “cuil that” in my lexicon.  I searched <david randall blog> with both Google and Cuil.  Google returned “A Foolish Consistency” as its fourth item–a surprising result, actually.  [...]

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The NSA is not the only one monitoring every move you make, every breath you take. In their desire to anticipate our wants and needs before we know them ourselves, the New York Times reports that major web companies–Yahoo!, Google, AOL (it’s still around? I’ll be damned)–are “gathering clues about the tastes and preferences [...]

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The NSA is not the only one monitoring every move you make, every breath you take. In their desire to anticipate our wants and needs before we know them ourselves, the New York Times reports that major web companies–Yahoo!, Google, AOL (it’s still around? I’ll be damned)–are “gathering clues about the tastes and preferences [...]

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Privacy and Security

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data (subscription required) reports that–
According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA [...]

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