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Buzzed Gmail Outs Google Ties to Obama’s Deputy CTO

Cade Metz

Ex-Googler Hoist By Mountain View’s Own Petard It would be hard to imagine a better Google story. If the company’s own web services somehow outed the most intimate secrets of CEO Eric Schmidt – a man who says net privacy is only for miscreants – that would surely be Google story to end all Google […]

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Ex-Googler Falls Prey to Wonderful Privacy Flaw of Google Buzz

CONTACT: Clint Boulton

This is a fun story. Andrew McLaughlin, formerly Google’s top lobbyist and currently the deputy CTO in the White House, where he advises President Barack Obama on Internet policy, apparently was aghast to find his contacts exposed by Google Buzz. Buzz is the social Web services that leverage Gmail users’ contacts. By default, Buzz was […]

Consumer Group Seeks Google, White House E-Mails

James Temple

Consumer Watchdog said today it filed a Freedom of Information Act request for copies of e-mails traded between the White House’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Google Inc., his former employer. Andrew McLaughlin, previously the Mountain View search company’s chief policy executive, unwittingly revealed his exchanges with former colleagues when the Google Buzz service launched […]

Group Wants Ex-Google Staffer’s E-Mail

Sara Jerome

The public interest group Consumer Watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Thursday asking to see emails between President Obama’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer, Google. The critique that Google is closely tied to the administration picked up some steam earlier this week thanks to an Internet privacy […]

Watchdog Group Requests White House Official’s E-mail After Google Buzz Mishap

Jessica Guynn

Consumer Watchdog has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to obtain e-mails between Internet policy chief Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer, Google Inc. McLaughlin, Google’s former top lobbyist, unwittingly revealed his frequent e-mail contacts on his Google Buzz profile in February. Now the […]

Consumer Watchdog Files White House FOIA Request For Ex-Googler’s Email

John M. Simpson

White House Internet Policy Chief Andrew McLaughlin’s “Buzz” Profile Showed Continued Ties To Internet Giant WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request today with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy seeking copies of email between Internet Policy chief Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer, Google Inc. The […]

Trust the Census; worry about Google

Margot Williams

Census Day – April 1 – got me thinking about the data the Census Bureau compiles about me.  Google’s partnership with the bureau got me thinking about who has the most data and who poses…

Google’s Buzz outs White House aide, former Googler

John M. Simpson

You might call it poetic justice.  Remember the more than justifiable flap that ensued when Google launched
its Buzz social networking service as part of Gmail?  People quickly
saw that the people they most frequently emailed were displayed publicly
on their profile.

Will Google’s PowerMeter give power to the people or spy on them?

Margot Williams

Sometime soon, my refrigerator could be spying on my late night ice cream binges. Right now it’s just a large frost-free appliance that doesn’t talk back. But when it starts to network on the Smart Grid via a meter and Google’s PowerMeter application, will Google be analyzing my high-cholesterol snacks?

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Signs Google is worried about AdMob deal

CONTACT: John M. Simpson

Internet giant Google appears to be concerned that its proposed $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob is…