Tag Archive | "Gmail"
Issa Presses Web Chief On Personal E-Mail Use To Contact Former Co-Workers
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is pressing White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin to explain his relationship with his former employer, Google. The congressman, who serves as ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said McLaughlin’s account on Google’s new Buzz social network suggests he remains in touch with “more than two dozen individuals […]
Continue reading...Official’s Buzz Profile Sparks FOIA Request For His Emails
Friday, April 2, 2010
Google’s Buzz has drawn two privacy lawsuits, a request for a Federal Trade Commission investigation and some pointed criticism by lawmakers. Now, information revealed by Buzz about Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the Obama administration and former Google lobbyist, has spurred Consumer Watchdog — which opposed McLaughlin’s appointment — to file a Freedom […]
Continue reading...Buzzed Gmail Outs Google Ties to Obama’s Deputy CTO
Friday, April 2, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Ex-Googler Falls Prey to Wonderful Privacy Flaw of Google Buzz
Friday, April 2, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Consumer Group Seeks Google, White House E-Mails
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Watchdog Group Requests White House Official’s E-mail After Google Buzz Mishap
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Files White House FOIA Request For Ex-Googler’s Email
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Google’s Buzz outs White House aide, former Googler
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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.
Continue reading...Will Google’s PowerMeter give power to the people or spy on them?
Friday, March 26, 2010
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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Friday, April 16, 2010
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