Tag Archives: Google

J’urinate! (Décision du Tribunal)

A French court dismissed the lawsuit Thursday (March 15), and ordered the plaintiff to pay Google France 1200 euros ($1,570) for legal expenses; not because they felt he’d filed a frivolous lawsuit, but because he’d filed an badly-prepared one, suing Google France when in fact the parent company — Google … Continue reading

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Friday Morning Miscellany: Three Things To Be Paranoid About

The Gift Card Scam: Why your gift card might not work Can Apple and Google Steal Your Personal Photos Right Out of Your Phone? Apparently, yes. Is This ”An Unprecedented Age of Censorship”? A columnist for The Economist — and author of You Can’t Read This Book — makes the … Continue reading

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The Dark Side of the Internet: Nigerians, Google, and Pimps

What Happens When People Actually Fall For the Nigerian E-Mail Scam? We’re talking “worst case scenario” here… What Google’s New Privacy Policy Really Means to You: Does the article’s title, “The End of Privacy,” go too far? SexTrafficking.com: How pimps are using the Web to sell girls

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Monday Morning Miscellany (December 5, 2011)

Illinois Attorney Suspended For Seeking a “Secretary With Benefits” Hey, at least he was open about it, asking in the help-wanted ad for the applicants’ measurements and specifying in a follow-up e-mail that “as part of the interview process you’ll be required to perform for us sexually” The 1930s Called: … Continue reading

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