Tag: Government

Facebook Urges Congress To Work On Fan Engagement
Let's face it; not everyone in Congress is adept at operating their social media accounts. Although some House and Senate members have jumped on the bandwagon and found that sites...
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Study Claims That 1/3 Americans Believe In UFOs
Do you believe in UFOs? I know that I certainly do even though I have never even come close to seeing one. It is very hard for me to believe that in the billions of years that this...
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Google Still Granting 93% of User Data Requests to U.S. Gov’t
Google released it's semi-annual Transparency Report for July to December 2011 over the weekend and, as always, there are so...
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Search Industry Vet Calls Upon FTC To Scrutinize Google (And Other Search Engines)
Veteran search industry journalist Danny Sullivan has written a letter to the Fe...
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FAA Taps Microsoft Office 365 to Jump Into the Cloud
The Federal Aviation Administration is following in the footsteps of its fellow government agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the states of California and Nebraska,...
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Google Lets You Know When You’re Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks
Google announced that will start showing new warnings when it believes users' accounts may be the target of state-sponsored attacks. Google says it will show the warnings when...
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The CISPA And Facebook Love Affair
Some 800 private firms pledged their support to CISPA – Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Critics are calling CISPA the new SOPA, with a small twist of course, it exon...
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U.S. Dept. of Interior Chooses Google for Cloud-Based Services
After a couple of years of jockeying, Google has emerged over Microsoft to woo the U.S. Department of Interior into going with a Google Apps partner for the agency's transition int...
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Why CISPA Could Do More Harm Than Good
Are you familiar with the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act? The bill, which is more commonly know...
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Is the Internet Becoming Less Open?
Although the issue of Web openness has been mostly quiet of late, it was revived after Google’s Sergey Brin made...
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Google Answers Half Of France’s Questions About Privacy
Google sent a letter to Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President of CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés), the French administrative authority that monitors how...
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How Google’s Drug Money Has Been Divided Up
Yesterday, we reported that the $500 million Google forfeited last year as the result of a settl...
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Groupon Draws SEC’s Eye, Forks Out $8.5 Million To Settle String Of Lawsuits
Late on Friday, Groupon issued a press release revising its earnings report, whi...
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Is Cyber Warfare Imminent, Or Is the Hype Overblown?
Is cybersecurity one of your top concerns? Whatever your opinion might be, the government has taken a particularly strong interest in it lately, as security breaches appear to be o...
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Google’s Drug Money About To Get Divided Up Among Law Enforcement
Last August, the United States Department of Justice announced that Google would forfeit $500 millio...
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