Don’t be evil. That very simple sentence is the first few words of Google’s code of conduct, an informal company motto first used by Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail. Over the last week, a growing tide of criticism of Google’s latest changes to it’s privacy policy has challenged that very concept. Google claims that its latest policy simplifies things for its users, …
Last week Jessica Ahlquist from Cranston, Rhode Island won her long running court case relating to the removal of a prayer banner from her high school. The case was brought by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), with Jessica being the plaintiff. The presence of the prayer in school was deemed unconstitutional as it violates the …
In case you somehow missed it yesterday, over 700 websites including Wikipedia, Google and WordPress protested against two bills due to come up in front of the US Congress. Wikipedia and WordPress blocked access to all of it’s pages for 24 hours, while Google and many others had prominent messages on their sites denouncing SOPA …
Just when the campaign for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential race seemed to have run out of crazy – Newt Gingrich has only gone and made this little gem of a video! The sad loss of the entertaining levels of craziness brought to the race by Michelle Bachmann, and Rick Perry’s campaign sinking …
The Atheist, Secularist & Humanist Society at University College London has started an online petition as part of its defence to the latest example of attempted censorship of images of the prophet Muhammed. A few days ago the society received an email from an official at the student union requesting they take down their an image from …
A group of ultra orthodox protesters in Israel has been roundly criticized for a stunt during one of their protests. In order to draw attention to the what the group believes amounts to oppression of their way of life by the government, they wore yellow stars and concentration camp uniforms like the Jews in Nazi Germany. Many had the …
