Sigh.
I don’t like to get overly political here, but still… this is ridiculous…
Who needs privacy? Who needs civil liberties? Not Americans. Apparently that’s what our elected officials believe. The NYTimes is reporting on the Senate putting a big, fat stamp of approval on Bush’s previously illegal wiretapping without a warrant schemes. FISA retroactively gives [...]

Categories: homeland security · politics · privacy · rant

Project Beacon is the latest controversy surrounding good ol’ Facebook. It’s a “service” that third party stores can use that will publicize your purchases at said store into your facebook news feed, so you go to a participating online retailer buy widget X and all of a sudden all your friends and coworkers get to [...]

Categories: politics · privacy · social networks

So Obama just published his principles for technology entitled “Technology and Innovation for a New Generation” in advance of his trip to see Google and the internet is already abuzz. He’s got a lot of points to make and I think it’s refreshing to see technology being so directly addressed - not just about security [...]

Categories: politics