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Just saw this in Chrome (on Windows):
At least I was notified, via the Google+ Notifications Chrome extension, that I will now be notifying Google about more of my Chrome activities (and, in fairness, I could have clicked “Cancel,” in which case I assume I would have seen the warning every few days; I could also uninstall the extension, of course, but I assume Google already has most of the related data anyway…)
Continue reading: So Google+ notifies me…
Meanwhile, via Danny Sullivan (via Facebook…), “Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else”
Google announced a plan Tuesday to link user data across its email, video, social-networking and other services that it says will create a "beautifully simple and intuitive" user experience. But critics raised privacy concerns like those that helped kill the search giant’s Buzz social networking service.
The changes, which take effect March 1, will remove some of the legal hurdles Google Inc. faces in trying to link information across services from Gmail to YouTube to the Google Plus social network that replaced Buzz.
Business & Technology | Google to merge… Continue reading: Business & Technology | Google to merge user data across more services | Seattle Times Newspaper
Stimulus-response
PIPA support is crumbling after yesterday’s widespread Internet protests as 26 new senators oppose the bill, seven of which were former co-sponsors, reports Ars Technica.
18 New Senators Oppose PIPA After Yesterday’s Protests
Continue reading: 18 New Senators Oppose PIPA After Yesterday’s Protests [Business Insider]
Excerpt from a Jaron Lanier reality check
The legislation has indeed included draconian remedies in various drafts, so I join my colleagues in criticizing the bills. But our opposition has become so extreme that we are doing more harm than good to our own cause. Those rare tech companies that have come out in support of SOPA are not merely criticized but barred from industry events and subject to boycotts. We, the keepers of the flame of free speech, are banishing people for their speech. The result is a chilling atmosphere, with people afraid to speak their minds.
Our melodrama is driven by a vision of an open Internet that has already… Continue reading: SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals of the Web – NYTimes.com
Concluding paragraphs of another SOPA snapshot
SOPA has the support of more than 140 companies and organizations, mainly in the music, book, television, and film industries. Many major Internet companies oppose it.
There’s little evidence that similar legislation elsewhere has worked. In 2009, for instance, France passed "three strikes" legislation that was meant to require Internet service providers to cut off access to people who had ignored two warnings to stop trading pirated works. The government set up a bureaucracy to implement the measure earlier this year. But actual enforcement has been slow in coming; ISPs say the task of tracking pirated works is very costly, and they want the government to pay… Continue reading: The Internet’s Perilous New Year’s Resolution – Technology Review
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