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Admittedly, we’ve been pretty critical of many policy stances taken by Google over the past several years.

It’s commonly understood that the world watches closely what the U.

Last week the California Supreme Court ruled that a police officer may pilfer the contents of a mobile phone (or presumably a PDA, net book, notebook or wallet) without a warrant merely because the person carrying it is arrested.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal headline read “Companies Cling to Cash.

As we watch defenders of Wikileaks committing cyber-vandalism on websites from VISA, Mastercard, Paypal, and even the government of Sweden, most reasonable people recognize that the hackers’ vandalism undermines their professed high moral ground and reinforces the general conclusion that Wikileaks itself is simply a form of cyber-vandalism.

You may have noticed that several states added additional taxes to phone bills in the last few years.

Even before the slumber-inducing effects of post-turkey tryptophan set in, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems to be gazing through the looking glass.

Although announced almost a year ago, the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal is still stalled at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), one of the two federal agencies that must say it’s OK for the two businesses to merge.

We have warned of the danger of a “lame duck” session of Congress, that the temptation to shove through much mischief would be hard to resist for some.

In the recent, never-ending quest by government to seize greater control of individual freedoms, the Golden State (of Excessive Regulations) sought to regulate the sale and rental of video games, attempting to subject them to different rules and regulations than books, movies, music or art.