Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists

A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.
The August 28 subpoena, issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a "libel tourism" action taken by non-US property developers, demands detailed information about the operators of "tcijournal@gmail.com". The account is the main email address of the TCI Journal, the most influential journal covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. The Islands are a tourist mecca and tax haven in the Caribbean sea, and until August 14 were an independent British protectorate.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Gmail_may_hand_over_IP_addresses_of_journalists

 

 

Why ? :: Monitor Your Electricity Usage in Real-Time With Google PowerMeter

Until now, if you wanted to use Google PowerMeter to track your energy usage, you had to hope your electric utility had or was willing to install a smart meter for you. Today, Google announced the availability of a device that puts your energy usage data into your own hands.

http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/google-powermeter-ted-5000/

No need of Google Wave.

You've probably heard about a hard-to-get, hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don't require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favorites.

Read more here.

Can you run your business using Google applications and services?

Can you run your business using Google applications and services?

So, can you run a business using only Google applications? The answer is, “it depends.” For small, local businesses, Google Apps along with a Blogger site and Google Voice might be more than enough to handle virtually everything they need. Businesses that do a significant amount of collaboration will find Google Docs useful, regardless of size.
For larger companies, as well as businesses that handle a great deal of sensitive information, privacy and security issues loom large. Having your email, documents, and other material stored on third-party servers is worrisome, no matter what Google’s policies promise. And Google is a big target for hackers and other nefarious sorts – though your data might never be targeted, there are plenty of people out there taking a stab at cracking Google just to see if it can be done.

Google, the toothless Big Brother

Andrew Keen once believed Google would become a 'digital leviathan'. Now, he thinks it's falling behind the competition and risks becoming a paper tiger. 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/5694924/Google-the-toothless-Big-Brother.html

Google really is moving towards world domination

An article “Who Gave Google Permission to be the Judge and Jury of Mobile Content?” in Mobhappy caught my attention this morning. In another stroke of why didn’t I see that, Russell Buckley discusses how Google is now determining what mobile users can see with their mobile phones. .

http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2006/03/09/big-brother-google/

Share your powerpoint

http://www.masternewmedia.org/where-to-upload-and-share-powerpoint-presentations-guide/

Data collection of Google

Understanding What Specific User Data Google Collects

Below is a list of every self-declared piece of datum that Google collects when a user interacts with its many web services. This means there is even more user data that is gathered by Google that is unknown to the public. Be forewarned, ignorance is bliss. After you read this you may feel inclined to wear a tinfoil hat.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection#list

J. Edgar Google: Information Is Power + No Accountability

Danny Dover has done a public service in compiling in PDF form all of the dozens of ways that Google collects personnally sensitive information on the ~90% of Internet users worldwide who either use Google's search or view DoubleClick's ads. 
Read more on
http://precursorblog.com/content/j-edgar-google-information-is-power-no-accountability

Google is watching your shopping :D

Go to Google Store and shop. So Google can get more info.

Of course Not !! Stop give away your life ...

Friday fun

Google Easter Eggs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6201814/Google-easter-eggs-15-best-hidden-jokes.html

Government 'Mind-Mapping' Scheme Inspired by Google Buddies

http://gawker.com/5360099/government-mind+mapping-scheme-inspired-by-google-buddies

Morphing to BB.

Thanks to Google's classic literature scanning efforts and those fancy new 'electronic readers' both doing their bit to make books cool again, it is now the height of fashion to be seen sitting there reading a story rather than watching YouTube clips or the latest rapidly-edited US drama serial.
Which has led to a bizarre technical paradox - Google is....
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/google-embraces-offline-paper-based-media-636489

Is Google becoming Big Brother?

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that,” said HAL the omnipotent computer in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The computer’s every-seeing eye looking back at Dave resembles so closely the Google Chrome icon that the comparison is eerie. If that’s not enough to make you wonder what the company has in store next, read on.

Read more on :  http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/brad/2009/07/27/is-google-becoming-big-brother/?cid=top6-082409

Stop Google and others

It is a universal truth that all search engines, including Yahoo, Google and MSN, retain search data of their users which can easily give a clue about the person's identity and a glimpse into his mind and online activity.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-stop-google-from-recording-your.html

25 Surprising Things That Google Knows About You

Google is the go-to provider of many things online-search, email, maps, and more. But have you ever stopped to consider all of the information you’re sharing with Google? Read on, and find out all of the dirt that Google has on you.

http://www.criminaljusticeusa.com/blog/2009/25-surprising-things-that-google-knows-about-you/

Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5727509&page=1

Url Reading nr 1

 Read about privacy issues ....


http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html

Google Watching you

Google on your traces... 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/dont-look-now-but-google-is-watching-you-1643387.html

Google is watching

'THERE was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment . . . It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time."

That quote from George Orwell's "1984" becomes increasingly prescient in light of developments in eavesdropping, pioneered by Google. Recently the company launched a service called Latitude, which allows consenting users to monitor each other's whereabouts. It's the company's latest snooping tool, the most controversial being the Street Views photographic mapping service.
When I tried Street Views by entering my address, I was surprised to see... ( Read more on )