If you have a Google account, you can check out who the tech giant thinks you are by clicking here. Even though the corporation collects and stores crazy amounts of data on its users, its algorithm remains imperfect. Pretty much everyone I know who has clicked on that link has found that Google thinks they are men above the age of 65. Among that group, zero of us are men over the age of 65.
Last night, President Obama book ended his State of the Union address by praising the US military. The beginning of the speech:
Google announced today that a new privacy policy will take effect on March 1, 2012. The policy will govern all of Google's seemingly zillions of services and products. Kudos to Google for consolidating their policies into one, and for making it reasonably easy for ordinary people to understand. But let's not kid ourselves: there's some scary stuff in it.
In a breathtakingly important decision we've anticipated for months, the Supreme Court today decided, in a unanimous ruling, that the government needs a warrant before placing a GPS tracking device on a car. A number of lower courts had disagreed on the question, raising the profile of the US v. Jones case at the nation's highest court.
In our fear-ridden society, the “Land of the Free” has gone the way of the “Home of the Brave,” according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.
