The whistle-blower website, Wikileaks, has been facing immense pressure from world governments. Recent actions taken by businesses (and possibly instigated by governments and news coverage) may have caused the greatest damage to-date. Earlier this week, the web hosting company for the website, Amazon, canceled it’s account on the EC2 cloud computing environment, saying that the [...]

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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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Facebook has launched a new page devoted to US politics (Facebook.com/USpolitics). The page will monitor how US politicians, political campaigns and elected officials use Facebook to connect with citizens. Facebook and other forms of social media have become vital places for politics, political support and interest, and building connection between users, campaigns and political figures. [...]

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Pakistan issued a ban on the social networking website, Facebook, due to the posting of a contest that solicited images of the Prophet Muhammad. According to most Muslims, images of the Prophet Muhammad are blasphemous. Since, Facebook has blocked access to that particular content for Pakistan only and issued an apology. A Pakistani court in [...]

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The US Department of Defense will now allow social networking and Web 2.0 social tools access within it’s Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET). A statement “Responsible and Effective Use of Internet-based Capabilities” (DTM 09-026) was released on February 25th to formally allow social networking use within the non-classified network–unifying the policy across military branches [...]

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This graph represents US job loss from December 2007 through January 2010. This graph shows job loss from the Bush Presidency through January 2010 of the Obama Presidency. The source of the data is the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US, 02/12/2010.

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Following the Google investigation of recent hacking attacks, which resulted in the discovery of potential Chinese government involvement or acceptance, the US State Department will formally protest to the Chinese Government demanding an explanation. “We will be issuing a formal demarche to the Chinese government in Beijing on this issue in the coming days,” said [...]

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Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman has taken sides. He will oppose health care reform and the Democratic Party in a dramatic and historical way. Some have criticized Lieberman for being a strong asset to the Republican Party. One thing is clear, Lieberman is standing up for health insurance companies. It appears that his goal is to [...]

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On October 15th, Americans are required to declare all off-shore bank accounts. Some estimates suggest that there may be as much as tens of billions of dollars hidden in the off-shore accounts of private citizens. Many wealthy citizens have already announced their hidden accounts. Approximately 4,000 clients of UBS and other private banks have come [...]

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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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