The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, traveled to Silicon Valley to meet with top internet industry leaders to discuss a new proposal to make it simpler to conduct wiretaps on Internet users. Facebook and Google were among the top companies, with whom Director Mueller met on his trip. The [...]

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John Steward has a great delivery–both entertaining and serious. In this episode, the Daily Show outlines the opinion-as-news approach to Fox News.

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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking increased transparency with product endorsement on blogs and social networks. Paid product endorsements on blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social websites will need to reveal their sponsorship, otherwise they will be faced with fines, a lawsuit or other penalties. The new guidelines will come into effect on December 1st. [...]

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A government official in Switzerland is demanding that Google turn off its street view map service citing privacy issues. One cause of concern was that numerous vehicle license plates and human faces were not blurred in the street view maps. The official is asking that Google shut down the service until it conforms to Swiss [...]

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Nortel was once the object of hatred for causing the savings of many Canadians to plummet following an accounting scandal and the drop of stock prices. Now the company is a surprising object of nostalgia in protests against its sale to foreign investors. Many Canadians are asking their government to review the estimated $1.13 billion [...]

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If deemed legal, an Iowa school system may purchase cell phone jamming equipment. Earlier this month, the school system passed a motion to allocate 5000 dollars to purchase technology to block cell phone signals at school. The school would require that the cell phone jamming equipment would need to be capable of turning off easily [...]

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