EU residents may want to write/call/email/text their local governments and let them know any bill or law that drops data retention limits from 12 months to 6 is a bad idea. Especially so because if it does pass, Google Street View will be no more. They’re stating that if data retention limits are lowered for the original unblurred images from twelve to six months, the accuracy, integrity, and overall usefulness will be dimished. After those 6-months, if Google...

What’s better than an already over-restrictive and anti-consumer digital based bill moving through an technologically intellectual congress? How about censorship? Yes folks, it appears more countries and governments want to be exactly like China and their “great firewall” in every way. Under the guise of “copyright protection” lawmakers site that such blocking measures would help protect IP and make the planet an overall better place to live....

After a brief 15-month hiatus, it looks like personal flash drives will once again be allowed inside the Department of Justice. Spurred by a rash of virus outbreaks and compromised computers, the DoD enacted the ban back in late 2008 to get a grip on the damaging and stubborn malware war path. Don’t go all hogwild just yet though, bringing in a bin of flash drives and relying on them for home and work use. The new decree strictly mentions “mission...

While the controversy around Google and China continues to push on, albeit at a more subdued tone, someone else looks to be crawling into the brawl. Iran, the most favorite country in the world has announced today that it plans to completely block any and all access to Gmail. The reasoning given by government officials to the WallStreet Journal claim that it is to “further technological innovation” within the country and that a nationalized email system will...

How often do we see government officials lambasting some part of the internet, telling tales of how it’s evil and destroying the world? Unless you live in a cave deep underground, away from human civilization, it’s an almost weekly occurrence. With that said, we’ve seen the internet, and more importantly social networking play a big role over the last year in regards to world events. Election revolts in Iran — need I say more? The latest online...