i'm going back and forth on google....

...part of me finds many of their recent initiatives frightening and profoundly disturbing.

...another part of me is perversely delighted by the concept that what they're doing, on another level, is bringing big brother to the people!used to be, you had to be a government, a big company or some shadowy ( Read more... )

...but for folks who still labor under the delusion that the internet = anonymity, here's a simple, non-conspiracy example of how many things on the internet work, from a computer-industry trade magazine:

Is It OK that Google Owns Us?
[e-week, free]
Make no mistake, Google owns you. The ways in which it owns you are laid out in a complaint filed ( Read more... )

heck, we knew that orwell was prophetic. but rockwell?

NSA has records of billions of U.S. phone calls
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The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, according to reports ( Read more... )