Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 3, 2008. Google's motto is "Don't be evil." But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can't live up to its own hype.
Jessica Lee, Indypendent. June 10, 2008. Members of Congress are going after YouTube in their attempts to crack down on "Islamic terrorist organizations."
Jessica Clark, In These Times. March 1, 2008. Thanks to Google and others, you can plug in your zip code and find out if the flu is in your neighborhood. But where is all this mapping taking us?
Jeffrey Chester, The Nation. October 6, 2007. Google's new marketing strategy poses a huge threat to our privacy and democratic aspirations for the Internet.
Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet. September 20, 2007. Are you ready to entrust this deeply personal information to a company that recently received a failing grade in privacy?
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 2, 2007. Duncan Riley: In an interesting move, Google has come out against controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's latest documentary
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. June 13, 2007. Google's newest widget has questionable ethics. Do you really want to walk down the street never knowing whether your furtive nose-picking has been captured and broadcast to the Google-using public?
Jeffrey Chester, TheNation.com. April 4, 2007. We should not leave decisions about how digital content is paid for and distributed just to Google and its ever-growing list of corporate competitors.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. March 6, 2007. When you store all the ephemera and all the hard work you've done in your life on someone else's server -- Gmail, Flickr, etc. -- you risk a whole lot more than exposing your life to prying eyes.