[governance] FW: [IP] Google's Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com

[Adam Peake]

Guru, thanks for this. URL for Eli Pariser's TED Talk the article
mentions is <http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html>
 (can download.)

There's an option to hide personal results on the search toolbar and I
believe you can stop personalized search by either not using or
logging out from any active Google account (not that many of us
bother, but that's the problem with convenience.)   Is interesting to
see if you get different results using different browsers.

A bit related: Which Websites Are Sharing Your Personal Details?
From the Wall Street Journal, which itself is one of the worst of the
group, and it's a pay site, so they take your money and your data
(value)

<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324640104578165651354042798.html>
about methodology
<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/07/sites-sharing-personal-details-the-journal-methodology/>

And from the Economist "The new politics of the Internet: Everything
is connected" <http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569041-can-internet-activism-turn-real-political-movement-everything-connected>

Adam


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/06/2013 10:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> So do you get all your news from just news.google.com and other google
> search results, instead of Facebook shares, Riaz gleefully posting every
> article he sees about google being investigated for, say, giggling in
> church?
>
> And did Riaz find this news item anywhere other than google search?
>
> And does this reality distortion field google is supposed to have actually
> hide any search results from you that are negative to it?  Like search for
> "google FTC" and you get the EU action, statements from Microsoft slamming
> the decision etc.
>
>
> Does 'personalised search' (without your having asked for, it or having any
> role in such pesonalisation) not in a sense 'reality distortion' ....by
> offering different people different views on the same keyword search.
>
> See attached aticle (the web link is not available anymore)
>
> Guru
>
>
> And the last link on page 1 of the search results showing just where google
> got spanked by the FTC.
> http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111650/why-does-everyone-think-google-beat-the-ftc#
> is worth a read as a kind f counterpoint to all the commentary about how
> google got a get out of jail card because of intensive lobbying.
>
> Can we please
>
> 1. Have a reality check here
> 2. Go back to discussing Internet governance
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 06-Jan-2013, at 22:00, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Riaz (and sorry for the really awkward phrasing…
>
>
>
> To put that in English…
>
>
>
> I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to "investigate" Google for
> possible "freedom of thought" violations rather than issues concerning
> "freedom of speech"… Google has the potential for much more serious impacts
> on our capacity to know (or not know) certain things, than on what we can
> say or not say…
>
>
>
> M
>
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