According to this press release, a new survey indicates that the majority of Internet searching (66%) undertaken by Canadians focuses on obtaining health related data. In addition, such searches are conducted by users on at least a monthly basis. According to Ipsos-Reid, the company that conducted the survey, healthcare consistently ranks as the number one issue of concern in Canada’s national polls.
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Daily Archives: December 19, 2002
Net Snooping Here and Abroad
There is evidence of a slow but steady groundswell of citizen concern about, and local government response to, increased online surveillance as a result of the Patriot Act. Wired highlighted the work of a new grassroots organization called the Bill of Rights Defence Committee that is assisting municipalities in the passage of resolutions opposing the… Continue Reading
Search Engine HotBot Returns
Once popular search engine HotBot has returned with a new look, new features, and new hopes to lure back all those users who abandoned them for Google. Continue Reading
AOL's Patent for Instant Messaging
InstantMessagingPlanet.com reports that as a result of acquiring the Israeli company Mirabilis (in 1998) and their ICQ technology, telecom giant AOL has obtained a patent (see the text here) on instant messaging (IM) software. This patent could cause considerable problems for the respective IM apps from Microsoft and Yahoo. Continue Reading
More on Total Information Awareness
The Total Information Awareness Office (TIA) and its controversial director Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, (remembered by some for his Reagan era Iran Contra involvement), have begun to feel the heat of growing dissent concerning the activities of this project. Personal data about Poindexter has been posted on numerous weblogs (see this example) and discussed… Continue Reading
Total Information Awareness Website Undergoes Changes
The Memory Hole reports that the government’s Total Information Awareness website has undergone significant changes to the design with which the site was originally launched. Initially, the site looked like this, and included a very prominent graphic of a single eye shining its light onto a globe below. The metaphor was obvious….we are watching the… Continue Reading
