The FCC’s Google Street View wiretapping investigation proved that Google’s public representations it was just a mistake one rogue engineer — that the FTC and foreign law enforcement relied upon to close their investigations — were untrue. Going forward, law enforcement must remember the old...
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Online Privacy
Google’s Poor & Defiant Settlement Record
Google’s poor and defiant track record in respecting government agreements and settlements is likely one of the reasons the FTC hired an undefeated former Federal prosecutor and litigator to lead their Google antitrust probe and potential litigation against Google. The EU and the FTC are...
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Consumer Groups’ Advocacy Hypocrisy
Consumer groups by definition are supposed to be protecting consumers’ interests — not be pushing a special interest political agenda under the guise of the “public interest.” Let’s spotlight a recent and blatant hypocrisy whereby consumer groups near-completely ignored an instance of obvious widespread consumer...
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Where’s the Market for Online Privacy?
Why are market forces so weak in protecting users’ online privacy? The main reason is that the online marketplace is economically structured around users being a commodity, data, to be aggregated and mined, not customers to be served and protected in a competitive marketplace. That’s...
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Twitter’s Realpolitik & The Sovereign-ization of the Internet
Reports that “Twitter Can Censor by Country” is a perfect example of how the world is changing the Internet. Change is a two-way street. Conventional wisdom that only assumes the Internet is changing the world risks being blind-sided by the Internet’s underappreciated exa-trend: how the...
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Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet
Since most people focus on how the Internet is changing the world, few focus on the reverse — how much the world is changing the Internet. See My Forbes Tech Capitalist blog post to learn the “Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet.” ...
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Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
The kerfuffle that paints the Google Wallet App as an innocent victim of Verizon blocking — in violation of an “open” Internet and net neutrality regulations — completely misses the forest for the trees. This conflict revolves around two ongoing industry battles. To see what...
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Jobs’ Apple Standard vs. Page’s Google Standard
Given that Apple and Google are the #1 and #2 most valuable brands in the world and that Google has invaded all of Apple’s markets in the last few years as a new competitor, it is illuminating and instructive to compare and contrast the radically...
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The Next Leg of Wireless Growth?
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post “The Next Leg of Wireless Growth? here....
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Google 21st Century Robber Baron
See my Forbes post “Google 21st Century Robber Baron” which briefly tells the story of Google’s Robber Baron rap sheet, in advance of Google’s Wednesday Senate antitrust hearing. The post is documented with 79 links to the supporting evidence. The post also explains why Google’s...
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