Designer Kenneth Melville explains how just how tough it is to build a $6,000 car, including some swallowing of pride
Daily Archives: January 20, 2006
TSA to Offer Pre-Approved Security Passes
AP:
Airline passengers who buy a preapproved security pass could have their credit histories and property records examined as part of the government’s plan to turn over the Registered Traveler program to private companies, federal officials say.
How To Foil Search Engine Snoops
On Thursday, The Mercury News reported that the Justice Department has subpoenaed search-engine records in its defense of the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. Google, whose corporate credo famously includes the admonishment “Don’t Be Evil,” is fighting the request for a week’s worth of search engine queries. Other search engines have already complied.
The government isn’t asking for search engine users’ identifying data — at least not yet. But for those worried about what companies or federal investigators might do with such records in the future, here’s a primer on how search logs work, and how to avoid being writ large within them.
Google’s data mining tools are not without controversy. Battelle has more here.