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Monday, July 23, 2007

Microsoft to Google: We Were Going to Call You, But … We Lost Your Number. … Yeah, That’s the Ticket!

What an odd bit of coincidence this is. Amid increasing scrutiny of Google’s privacy practices and its planned $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick–which some say would concentrate too much consumer data in its hands–Microsoft and Ask.com are calling upon “leading search providers, online advertising companies and privacy advocates” to develop “privacy principles” for the search [...]

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

European Data Protection Officials: Yahoo and Microsoft Have Search Engines?

Let’s be honest here: “Don’t Be Evil,” Google’s Hippocratic oath for corporations, was a masterful public-relations gesture when it was first made, but it never changed the increasing risks associated with the company’s business operations. Google is a public company, not a public interest. There’s really no reason to trust it to do the right [...]

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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