As we noted last week, Google has introduced a new beta email service called "Gmail" that raises a number of privacy concerns.While the media has largely focused on the fact that Gmail will scan the contents of your email messages in order to target ads, the more serious problem...

Google's announcement last week of its new Gmail email service sparked widespread speculation about the possible impact it would have on users' privacy. Among the questions EFF has been asking: What information would Google pull from email? Would it log this information? For how long? Could your Gmail address...

Via Howard Rheingold comes David Weinberger's NPR talk on emerging technologies that could significantly limit our ability to use and create with digital content -- the "triple threat" of content lockdown: Digital Rights Management (DRM), digital identity and trusted computing.
Rheingold observes that "This talk should...

Reuters: "'This is not just 'buyer beware.' Consumers should be aware that there's a vast violation of European law occurring here,' said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, a citizens' group with offices in Britain and the United States. [...]Privacy groups said they were also concerned about Google's ability...

We're still figuring that out.
As you've no doubt heard, Google's new Gmail beta email service is raising concerns (reg. req.) about privacy. How much concern? Well, let's just say that it's not often that a new email service is widely misinterpreted as an April Fool's...

A few of our favorites from the day's foolish endeavors (in which we couldn't resist taking part):
Ed Foster introduces the Lexmark car:
"Printer manufacturer Lexmark is proud to announce it will enter the automotive market with a line of cars featuring its exclusive Aftermarket...

When considering what to make of the recording industry's current rants against peer-to-peer file sharing software, it may help to remember how the record industry got its start -- by pirating the works of famous American songwriters. Consider this article, written by John Philip Sousa in 1906:
"I...