Google Is Everywhere, Including The Government
It has been a big year for Google in a number of capacities. The company constantly begins new projects, and many are ones that have a tremendous impact on users' lives.
Date: 2008-12-30
Change.gov Gives Government Access Almost Anywhere
You can take it with you...Change.gov is now iPhone, mobile and widget-enabled. (You can even put it on your iGoogle start page.)
Date: 2008-12-09
Net Neutrality Is Back In The Congressional Spotlight
Senator Byron Dorgan, D-ND, tells Reuters that he plans to introduce a bill in January to enshrine Net Neutrality into law.
Date: 2008-11-19
What's Being Searched For On Election Day?
Today is full of buzz about the election. I tried to vote early - too crowded. So my strategy is to wait until 9am to vote by my house. It worked perfectly.
Date: 2008-11-04
McCain Backed By EFF For YouTube Fair Use Reviews
Though initially critical of the McCain campaign's request for special treatment, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has echoed parts of a letter to YouTube by...
Date: 2008-10-21
Freedom Of Information Act Requests Google's Help
A PDF file published at GovernmentAttic.org contains, according to its description, the "NSA [US National Security Agency] administrative processing file for FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request for records on Google and contracts With Google".
Date: 2008-10-07
President Bush Sued By EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush and others in his administration for the illegal surveillance of emails and telephone calls without a warrant.
Date: 2008-09-23
Intelligence's Special Place
I love that on the same page as CNN's announcement of this new "Facebook for spies" is a "Don't Miss" article titled "U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say" and an ad for La Cense Beef with a tantalizingly juicy steak...
Date: 2008-09-09
The Government Is Now Using Social Media
The government can't be all that bad. They Twitter. They don't make us practice until we're almost dead for the Olympics.
Date: 2008-08-25
The U.S. State Department's Diplopedia
The New York Times has an article about the U.S. State Department's Diplopedia. Eric M. Johnson of the State Department's Office of eDiplomacy shared his learnings during the Wikimania conference in Egypt (video accessible if you use Internet Explorer, sigh).
Date: 2008-08-12
All Forms Of Foreign Contact Are Officially Tapped
In a move that chills my bones, a couple weeks ago George Bush attained congressional approval to make "a massive expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (FISA).
Date: 2008-07-29
States Investigate Google-Yahoo Deal
Search advertising by Google, search results by Yahoo, and a lot of scrutiny at the federal level received another layer of interest, this time from state governments.
Date: 2008-07-14
Government Security Certification Guidelines
Government Computer News pushed out an article on the 25th that you will end up reading four or five times until the entire story hits you.
Date: 2008-07-01
Social Media Relations And Politics
Why is a Portuguese South African writing about American politics, you may wonder. Truth is, when the whole Clinton versus Obama race got started, I had very little interest in either.
Date: 2008-06-10
A Proposal For A Military Botnet
This interesting story comes from COL. CHARLES W. WILLIAMSON III, in the Armed Forces Journal, the only real question is when will this go live, and...
Date: 2008-05-13
Privacy Protection From Google
I know that every reader of Marketing Pilgrim will agree with the ethics of Google's decision to share account information of 3,261 suspected pedophiles, with Brazilian authorities.
Date: 2008-04-22
US Government Turning To Google
This will give the conspiracy theorists something to sink their teeth into; Google is providing search technology to the nation's intelligence agencies.
Date: 2008-04-01
EU Investigating Possible U.S. International Trade Violation
The European Union is launching an investigation into a possible international trade violation by the United States for discriminatory trade practices against foreign online gambling companies.
Date: 2008-03-11
Twitter For Politicians
Today I got a notice from Twitter that I have another follower of my Twitter account. For those of you with a life but without the driving desire to document and share every moment of it, you may not know of Twitter.
Date: 2008-02-19
DHS And Open Source Community Fix Over 7,800 Bugs
Given a 300,000 dollar grant, over 7,826 flaws and security bugs in over 250 open source projects have been identified and fixed.
Date: 2008-01-22
Security In The UK Could Be Set Back By Decades
In what could be a bad day for United Kingdom pen testers, stress testers, and other systems security folks, the UK is getting ready to ban the creation and distribution of tools that could be used by hackers.
Date: 2008-01-03
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