I believe strongly - near-absolutely - in freedom of speech. However (and I appreciate that there is a potential tension here) I do not believe in a near-absolute right to nick the speech of others. Or the expression of others,...

Oh dear, looks like the fuck up fairy has visited Google!

The engineers who design Google's services see humans as little more than nodes between which information passes.

Why are we perturbed when a picture of our house appears on Google Maps but not when we're filmed by state CCTV?

From the depths of the Google Cache and well timed screen shots being taken. Right, so in the comments there was then: Now the reason this is a congratulation to R. Murphy is that we can now see that he is in fact able to correct errors. OK, delete them rather than utter a “whoopsie” but that is

I used Google's translator to render Milton's Sonnet On His Blindness into Chinese, then back again: When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, ...

From the latest Radio Times: McCarthyism: There Were Reds Under the Bed In the light of recent spy revelations, David Aaronovitch uncovers dramatic evidence that the notorious Communist hunter Joseph McCarthy may have been right after all about Soviet infiltration into the US government. That's this coming Sunday, July 25th, at 1.30pm, on BBC Radio 4. Google, google. Here is more about the pr...

Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding

The Labour deputy leader is displayed on Google Maps as a landmark, between Westminster Palace and 'Big Ben'.

Former MP and chair of the All-Party Internet group Derek Wyatt says that Google is not entitled to our private data.