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What Marquette University Assistant Law Professor Eric Goldman said today:"It's legislative opportunism. It's classic (bad) cyberlaw."What he was reacting to:U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey...

A minute with Roger Dingledine

Roger Dingledine created The Free Haven Project, a free software for anonymous and censorship-resistant Internet use.EWEEK'S GOOGLE WATCH Has the news that search engines...

Google’s Great Wall Of China

Google now says it'll be censoring information available through its newly-launched China Web site.In this way, the search giant's appeasing the Chinese government enough...

Google-peona Ropes In Enterprise?

Enterprises could be hurt by the recently-disclosed fact that search engines turned over users' key words to the feds. Those firms where Internet search...

Google’s Beige Saturday

During the weekend, the price of Google's stock dipped below $400 a share for the first time in at least two months, due to...

Eyeing Your Search Habits

I'm pretty sure Patriot Search is a hoax. But the recent hubbub about search engines turning over user data to the feds makes it...

Google Boy, to the rescue!

Thought no one was brave enough to take a stand against the prying eyes of the federal government?You're wrong. Meet Google Boy, the teen-aged...

Feds, Google Battle Over Customer Info

Internet search giant Google Inc. confirmed Thursday it's fighting a Bush administration request to review Google customers' search habits.The administration, via the U.S. Department...

Blacklist Me!

According to his employment contract, Eric Schmidt is now sitting on stock options valued at $1.5 billion.Although his company offers Gmail brand e-mail, for...

Google Maps Going In a Bad Direction?

If you want a really, really accurate map, you got to get your information directly from the municipality you're mapping. Anything else, and you...