In February 2010 three Google executives were convicted of a privacy violation in an Italian court and received suspended prison sentences. The reason for the trial and conviction: they allowed people to upload a video to Google Video showing someone being bullied. It was two hours before the video was removed following complaints.
“It is like prosecuting the post office for hate mail that is sent in the post”
The news coming in about the cyclone in Burma is terrible, with reports that the number of lives lost is likely to exceed 100,000. BBC News has coverage and links. David Weinberger has posted that donations may get to those who need them quicker if sent through International Burmese Monks Organization. See Donate to Burma. [...]
It’s a funny old world. On Monday this week, I had to travel to meet a client – I know, life is full of surprises. I’d spent the previous evening trying to decide whether to use the car or the train. The travel distance was just over 100 miles. In theory, the train should take [...]
What does the current hand-luggage furore at UK airports have in common with the UK government’s agenda for nuclear power? Absolutely nothing as it happens. They are poles apart in the way the government expects the ‘general public’* to react. (*I hate that word – it creates distracting data – and am unable to use [...]
