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Daily Archives: August 25, 2005

ACLU v. Gonzales – Patriot Act and Data Collection on Library Patrons

ACLU press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union today disclosed that the FBI has used a controversial Patriot Act power to demand records from an organization that possesses “a wide array of sensitive information about library patrons, including information about the reading materials borrowed by library patrons and about Internet usage by library patrons.” The… Continue Reading

Google Continues to Capture Headlines With Free Services and Upgraded Features

Google has been the topic of several articles in the New York Times this week. Yesterday the focus was on corporate expansion, and today there is news about Google Desktop 2, an IM application called Google Talk, and Gmail for everyone (all of these services are free). See also: Google’s Grand Ambitions – Its lips… Continue Reading