You may know that Comcast recently announced a new service package that would stream Comcast (Xfinity) movies to Xbox 360 customers, with that relationship sitting outside of the data caps imposed by the carrier. Notes Carl Bode: The lynch pin of Comcast’s argument is that the Xbox 360 is little more than another set top [...]
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A recently released study has given further evidence to the link between privacy and personal information protection and consumer confidence. The Edelman study released in February 2012 shows that consumer concerns about data privacy and security are actively diminishing their trust in organizations. For instance, 92% listed data security and privacy as important considerations for [...]
The Associated Press reports on the use of tracking technology to keep tabs on students in Brazil: Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they’re cutting classes, the city’s education secretary said Thursday. Twenty thousand students in 25 of Vitoria da Conquista’s 213 [...]
Alice Purkiss: Senior police officer supports investigator’s Suffolk Strangler case claim THE FREE SPEECH BLOG
The story headline – Google in New Privacy Probes – seems to be a recurring theme for the company. Recidivists have a way of doing the same things over and over. Just ask Scott Cleland, who has well documented Google’s privacy slip-ups (by his count, 35 privacy scandals). This is a classic line within the [...]
My Mar. 24, 2012 Sun column; Obama’s sleight of handFeigned support of Keystone pipeline by the U.S. president will only fuel gas prices for the American marketU.S. President Barack Obama posed in front of a stack of pipes this week, promising to cut through the red tape on the southern leg of the Keystone XL [...]
From The Source, Mar. 23, 2012: Brian Lilley and I look at the vitriolic response to ‘Human Achievement Hour’, my response to Earth Hour. Ezra Levant
Padraig Reidy: Sarkozy calls for censorship, the off the shelf answer to extremism THE FREE SPEECH BLOG
From The Roundtable, Mar. 21, 2012: Graham James’ light sentence indicates a justice system out of whack, I argue. Can it be fixed? Ezra Levant
One of the first questions many people asked when I announced that I was writing a book was ‘who is the publisher? This early question that presents itself for would-be authors is actually quite a complicated one to address. The terminology alone is mind boggling. There is ‘vanity publishing’, ‘self publishing’, ‘co-operative publishing’, ‘conventional publishing’, [...]