- Fri Feb 5 3:13 PM PST 2010 Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Google vs. China
In what may be the biggest story of the year, Google announced in January that it might pull out of China. We discuss why the company did that, what's happened since, and it's likely to unfold.
- Fri Feb 5 9:16 AM PST 2010 FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
Internet providers should keep logs for two years, says head of FBI's digital evidence section. But what about the practical and privacy issues?
- Wed Feb 3 9:37 PM PST 2010 Police survey provides glimpse of Net-surveillance figures
A relatively small group of 100 police working on Internet investigations reports submitting as many as 22,800 legal requests for information a year to Internet providers.
- Wed Feb 3 4:00 AM PST 2010 Police want backdoor to Web users' private data
A survey, part of a broader lobbying effort, finds cybercrime fighters want to "exchange legal process requests and responses to legal process" through a police-only "nationwide computer network."
- Tue Feb 2 4:00 AM PST 2010 Mozilla weighs privacy warnings for Web pages
New icons in Firefox could reveal how much privacy a Web site provides--a useful new feature, but only if publishers agree to rate themselves.
- Fri Jan 29 5:56 PM PST 2010 Appeals court lets Google Street View suit continue
But Third Circuit tosses out all of a Pennsylvania couple's privacy claims, and hints that they may be only able to collect $1 in nominal damages for trespass.
- Fri Jan 29 4:27 PM PST 2010 Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: What the iPad means for Apple
The iPad. Perhaps you've heard of it. On this week's Roundtable, we talk about what the iPad means to Apple as a company and the tech industry at large.
- Thu Jan 28 10:55 AM PST 2010 It's been 10 years: Why won't people pay for privacy?
On Data Privacy Day and well into the Internet era, a look at a decade of failed business models that had hoped to make billions protecting customers' personal information.
- Wed Jan 27 6:57 PM PST 2010 Obama lauds green tech, Web site for earmarks
President's State of the Union speech summarizes much of what his administration has already announced, including writing checks to solar and battery makers. Also: Congress should "publish all earmark requests on a single Web site."
- Sun Jan 24 2:15 PM PST 2010 Google's challenge in China
roundup A blunt declaration by Google on censorship and surveillance underscores the troubled history--and uncertain future--for Internet companies doing business in China.




