When you save files to Google’s new hard-drive folder in the cloud, the terms of service you are required to agree to gives Google “worldwide license" to your content.
In his new book "Friends, Followers and the Future," Rory O'Connor explains how social media helps us form broader connections and stay aware of opposing views.
In a new memoir, Ghonim describes how the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression and found their voice. Here, he discusses with Terrence McNally.
Google co-founder Larry Page is paranoid—and justifiably so, as his company's losing ground in the social media sphere to Facebook despite its best attempts.
Many of these companies have earned credibility among progressives, despite having a poor track record with the environment, sexism, union busting, monopolizing, and more.
Executives from Google and Apple defended their mobile privacy policies at a Congressional hearing as Sen. Franken warned of reports of secret user data collection.
Eric K. Arnold, New America Media. December 5, 2010.
If big internet service providers have their way, they'll be able to choose which artists you get to hear and see on the media platforms from which art goes viral.
Waxman's legislation, under the banner of mandating network neutrality, would prevent the govt. from requiring broadband providers to treat all web traffic equally.
Google's market capitalization is $150 billion. Verizon's is $85 billion. They don't care about our wellbeing. Even if one of them tells us it won't "be evil."
Christopher Ketcham, Travis Kelly, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. April 9, 2010.
From Google Search to Google Earth, every move you make can be tracked by some feature of Google -- and intelligence agencies are drooling over the data.
Government should have as little role as possible in delivering broadband to America, says Google's CEO. Just like government should stay out of banking regulation?
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. January 13, 2010.
Does a company whose motto is "Don't Be Evil" really deserve praise for ending its longstanding cooperation with the Great Firewall of Chinese Internet control?
The firms doing the spinning for some of the financial meltdown's biggest players have good reason to be worried. Their crimes, after all, went largely unnoticed.
