The privacy law governing how U.S. law enforcement can access email data after a certain time has been passed unanimously across both sides of the Senate. Original post on zdnet.com Comments on reddit.com
House and Senate are both working on bills to enhance online privacy. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Amendment was shot down that would have required warrants before police could peruse shared information for any evidence of hundreds of different crimes. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
Searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches, according to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test. Though search engines have worked to suppress malicious results, the study concluded that malware infested websites still appear in their top results. Original post on pcmag.com Comments on reddit.com
Last week, we wrote about Aaron Swartz’s girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, releasing a statement accusing the DOJ of a variety of things that hadn’t really been covered before, including lying, seizing evidence without a warrant and… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
The administration searched staff e-mails to try to root out the source of leaks to the news media in a cheating scandal, and the staff members were not told until months later. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Find the flight you want with Hipmunk. Original post on hipmunk.com Comments on reddit.com
Google today posted a video preview of its forthcoming Google Glass wearable headset, providing a fresh, and more realistic look at the device’s user interface. The video, embedded below, was… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
Chief Beck said the ongoing pursuit for Christopher Dorner is a strain on police resources. Original post on nbc4.tv Comments on reddit.com
Using Google logs, scientists found that in 2012 Germans searched for the future on the Internet more than any other nation. Original post on sci-news.com Comments on reddit.com
The female Texas trooper who performed a roadside cavity search on two women will be terminated, according to the Department of Public Safety. The two women from Irving are suing Trooper David Farrell, Trooper Kelley Helleson and the director of the Department of Public Safety f … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
Oracle’s Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update, Java actively tries to install unwanted software. Here’s what it does, and why it has to stop. Original post on zdnet.com Comments on reddit.com
All profiles must contribute to the greater good of socially-fueled search. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Florida Court of Appeal rules repainted cars should not be automatically subject to traffic stops. Original post on thenewspaper.com Comments on reddit.com
The Federal Trade Commission closed its investigation against Google for antitrust violations Thursday. Original post on cnbc.com Comments on reddit.com
Use of Google’s takedown tool for search results has grown tenfold in the past six months, the company reports. When it started publicly posting takedown notices in late May, around 250,000… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
Google’s tweaked its SafeSearch filter today — a feature that allows users to prevent explicit content from appearing in search results — making it less likely for some queries to return… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
The company says the move is designed to ensure adult content is shown only to those who explicitly request it. Read this article by Casey Newton on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
Prosecutors overlooked a bombshell piece of evidence in the Casey Anthony case, Orlando’s WKMG claims. On the day of daughter Caylee’s death, someone did a computer search for Original post on newser.com Comments on reddit.com
How Google learned to un-fragment itself and create the next big thing Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
To reduce online piracy, Google has implemented several changes to its search engine in recent years. Among other things, Google has blacklisted dozens of piracy related terms from appearing in its autocomplete and instant services. Megaupload is one of these search terms, and nine months after the last infringement took place the name of Kim Dotcom’s file-hosting service is still being censored. This begs the question, what other terms are needlessly censored by Google’s blacklist? Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age–a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest–you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it’s the home of a Google data center. Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
Not much of a surprise, but Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was again the leader in the U.S. search market in September by a wide margin, according to Original post on dailyfinance.com Comments on reddit.com
Just a few weeks ago, an FBI task force raided a home* in Portland, Oregon very early in the morning. They broke down the front door with a battering ram and threw in a stun grenade, which is non-lethal but Original post on thesoundandnoise.com Comments on reddit.com
Google has quietly expanded its list of censored search phrases with the addition of The Pirate Bay’s domain names. The blacklist prevents popular keywords from appearing in Google’s Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed. Although Google understands that there is no silver bullet to stop online copyright infringement, the search giant is convinced that the steps they’ve taken could help to decrease piracy. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
This is about technology-more specifically about the Internet. And how it’s now it’s turning into an undemocratic place, without you even realising. This book review was originally published in Significance, the statistics outreach magazine of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
President Obama ended his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention with a request for votes. Original post on nbc.com Comments on reddit.com
