CISPA is bad newswww.opencongress.org

From Open Congress:

[CISPA] would allow web companies to share virtually any information about their users with the government, without a court order. No prior privacy laws would apply.

Even if this is already on the veto chopping block, look forward to attack ads framing Democrats as “anti-cybersecurity.”

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Roger Ebert’s new voicewww.oprah.com

Apparently he revealed his new voice during an Oprah taping. His wife Chaz is hearing it for the first time in this video clip. It’s heartwarming and the guy is obviously very brave for going this route, but it also feels to me like an intrusion on their private moment.

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10 reasons to turn Google Buzz offwww.mushon.com

I’m going to stick around to see how Google Buzz develops, but Mushon does make some good points.

Meta-Buzz

I couldn’t help but to post this link to Buzz as well.

Update: I changed my mind. Buzz is turned off.

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Privacy and Google Buzzwww.nytimes.com

Google is known for releasing new products before they are fully ready and then improving them over time. But its decision to do so with Buzz, coupled with its introduction to all 176 million Gmail users by default, appears to have backfired.

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