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Ready to pay for Youtube?

It is amazing that in such horrid economic times, corporate interests never fail to sucker more money out of the sheeple… Matthew Garrahan and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Financial Times Google is on the verge of unveiling an à la carte subscription service for some of YouTube’s specialist video channels, to finance …

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Google’s Gmail-reading ad service faces Russian privacy probe

rt.com Russian antimonopoly officials have launched an inquiry into Google for allegedly violating correspondence privacy in their advertising, Russian media reported. Google denied the charges, claiming that e-mails are reviewed by a computer, not a human. Google’s webmail service Gmail will be investigated by Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) for …

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Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too

rt.com The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall. Without much fanfare, Google announced news this …

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Google confirms: ‘Government surveillance is on the rise’

rt.com The email accounts of Generals David Petraeus and John Allen aren’t the only ones being targeted by the feds. Google has released its bi-annual transparency report and says that the government’s demands for personal data is at an all-time high. Internet giant Google published statistics from their latest analysis …

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UN to tax American Internet companies?

rt.com The way the Internet operates as we know it could all soon change. A recently leaked document reveals that a European-based lobby group has asked the United Nations to tax American websites that provide services abroad. In December, the leak reveals, the European Telecommunications Network Operators Association (ETNO) approached …

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Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation

DAVID STREITFELD and KEVIN J. O’BRIEN New York Times After months of negotiation, Johannes Caspar, a German data protection official, forced Google to show him exactly what its Street View cars had been collecting from potentially millions of his fellow citizens. Snippets of e-mails, photographs, passwords, chat messages, postings on …

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Court allows NSA and Google to keep their ties secret

rt.com A federal appeals court has refused to force the US National Security Agency to explain any involvement it has had with Web giant Google, citing that a revelation could threaten the entire United States government. Friday’s decision out of US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia …