Google Censors BBC Article Under 'Right to Be Forgotten'; Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center,' Expands Encryption

Massive Retro Arcade Collection Discovered After Building Purchase | Amazon Sues Ex-Worker Who Jumped to Google To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Google Censors BBC Article Under 'Right to Be Forgotten' Amazon Sues Ex-Worker Who Jumped to Google Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center,' Expands Encryption TWC Customers Beg Regulators to Block Sale to Comcast Massive Retro Arcade Collection Discovered After Building Purchase Hot Comment: "From the article, it seems like the only ISP that was named in the Snowden leaks..." From the Vault: Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? Watch It: Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Super-PAC Killer Poll Booth: On 4th of July... Sponsored Resource: Defending Against AppDoS Attacks Google Censors BBC Article Under 'Right to Be Forgotten' In 2007, BBC economics editor Robert Peston penned an article on the massive losses at Merrill Lynch and the resulting resignation of their CEO Stan O'Neal. This week, the BBC was notified that the 2007 article will no longer appear in some Google searches made within the European Union, apparently as a result of someone exercising their new-found "right to be forgotten." Sound Off>> Amazon Sues Ex-Worker Who Jumped to Google Amazon is suing a former employee of its cloud services division after he took a similar position at Google. The interesting aspect of the lawsuit is that Google is choosing to vigorously defend the lawsuit, so this is a case of Goliath vs. Goliath rather than David vs. Goliath. Sound Off>> Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center,' Expands Encryption Microsoft has opened a "Transparency Center" at its Redmond campus where governments that use Microsoft software can come to review the source code in order to make sure it's not compromised by outside agencies. The company also announced security improvements to several of its cloud products. Sound Off>> TWC Customers Beg Regulators to Block Sale to Comcast Ars Technica reports that New York is shaping up as a major battleground for Comcast's proposed $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable (TWC). Hundreds of the 2.2 million TWC customers in the state have called on the New York Public Service Commission to block the merger. Sound Off>> Massive Retro Arcade Collection Discovered After Building Purchase After a grandmother bought an old building in Chiba, which is just outside of Tokyo, her family discovered that the first two floors used to be a game center in the 1980s. Whoever ran the center left all the classic arcade cabinets behind when it closed, but it's the game boards that they contain that's the most exciting discovery. Sound Off>> How are they going to get proof? "From the article, it seems like the only ISP that was named in the Snowden leaks as being a target of NSA/GCHQ data collection was Belgacom, a Belgian ISP. I'm not sure how the law works in the UK, but in the US, all of the suits against the NSA so far have failed because the NSA can refuse to provide evidence. The only ISP they have direct evidence for is Belgacom, which does not appear to be a plaintiff in this lawsuit. If GCHQ can withhold evidence, how do they plan to prove that they were targeted?" --by Joe Gillian Read More>>   Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? Four years ago, Andorin asked the community, "Does anyone know of any creative works that were provably a financial failure due to piracy? The emphasis on 'provably' is important, as some form of evidence is necessary. Accurately and precisely quantifying damages from p2p is impossibly hard, of course, but answering questions like this may lead us to a clearer picture of just how harmful file sharing really is." 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