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May 17, 2010

13:58
Delete Your Facebook Account: 'Quit Facebook Day' Wants Users To Leave
As controversy swells around Facebook's latest changes to its privacy policy users' interest in deleting their Facebook accounts has soared. read more
07:36
Broadband and the FCC
The FCC's new classification of broadband is a measured attempt to ensure regulatory oversight over what is fast becoming the nation's most vital communications network. read more
07:35
TV Networks Go on a Pilot Buying Spree
After a season of disappointing ad revenue, the further loss of viewers (and prestige) to cable networks, the end of popular series like "Lost" and "24" and the Jay Leno disaster at NBC, the broadcast networks are going back to an expensive drawing board. read more
07:33
Positive Results for Online Government
Americans haven't de-friended the government just yet, according to a recent Pew report: 61 percent of adults looked for information or made transactions on a government Web site in the last year, while almost a third employed social media like social networking sites, blogs, text messaging, e-mail or online video to get government information. read more
07:31
Advocacy Groups Lift Ad Spending
Outside political groups have spent three times as much on political advertisements for the 2010 midterm elections as they had at the same point in 2006—an early sign both liberal and conservative groups plan to play a bigger role than ever in this year's congressional races. read more
07:29
Google and Intel in web TV launch
Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a "Smart TV" platform. read more
07:28
YouTube in fresh push to providers
YouTube will on Monday reveal that it serves up more than 2bn videos a day as it tries to persuade the world's content providers that it can offer "TV-size audiences" to the very companies that had once lined up to denounce or even sue the video-sharing site. read more
07:27
HHS to study patient perceptions of health IT
The Health and Human Services Department will conduct two surveys to find out more about patient perceptions and preferences for the use of health IT in the course of their healthcare. read more
07:22
Google Data Admission Angers European Officials
European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google that it had systematically collected private data since 2006 while compiling its Street View photo archive. read more
07:21
What's so bad about the Google Street View data flap?
Privacy conspiracy theorists hit the mother lode Friday with Google's blog post detailing its inadvertent collecting of snippets of personal data from Google Street View cars in Europe. But why all the fuss? read more
07:19
Europe to Offer 5-Year Plan for Telecom Industry
On Wednesday, Neelie Kroes, the new European commissioner for the digital agenda, plans to introduce a five-year plan for the telecommunications industry in Europe, encompassing issues like digital copyright, data protection, network neutrality and e-commerce. read more
07:17
China's Web "firewall" should be WTO issue: EU's Kroes
China's Internet "firewall" is a trade barrier and needs to be tackled within the framework of the World Trade Organization, said Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission. read more
07:16
Foreign Companies Chafe at China's Restrictions
Foreign companies doing business in China are increasingly feeling as if the deck is stacked against them. China has filed more than a dozen trade cases to limit imports, imposed a series of "buy Chinese" measures and limited exports of some minerals to force multinationals to move factories to China. read more
07:14
Slim Stops Deutsche Telekom, Reliance From Mexico Mobile Entry
Carlos Slim is likely to keep his dominance over Mexico's wireless industry as government regulations deter potential rivals such as Deutsche Telekom AG from bidding for airwave licenses this week. read more
07:13
Pressure Grows on Spain to Curb Digital Piracy
In the last decade, a surge of music and movie sharing online in Spain has thrilled fans, but it has also increased pressure from as far away as Hollywood to clamp down. read more

May 16, 2010

10:59
Want to Play FCC Fantasy Baseball? Follow The Title II Debate
Ever since Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his plans to hit the legal reset button and classify some aspect of broadband access service as Title II "telecom" rather than as a Title I "information service," the little hard core world of policy has been all abuzz about what the FCC might do and how that might work or not work or would have this or that unintended consequence. read more
10:42
On Speech, Kagan Leaned Toward Conservatives
In her early years as a law professor, Elena Kagan wrote almost exclusively on the First Amendment. There are indications in those writings that her views on government regulation of speech were closer to the Supreme Court's more conservative justices, like Antonin Scalia, than to Justice John Paul Stevens, whom she hopes to replace. read more
10:40
Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake
Google said on Friday that for more than three years it had inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks. read more
10:39
Facebook's Privacy Crisis Is Also Its Opportunity
Facebook is getting backlash from all sides. read more
10:37
Search warrant in iPhone raid is unsealed
Apple persuaded a Silicon Valley law enforcement task force to investigate the loss of a secret iPhone prototype, claiming that the phone was "invaluable" and calling revelations of its features "immensely damaging" to the company. read more