Outside the Beltway

Some thoughts on the ongoing situation in Egypt.

The recording industry has sent its 25 millionth Google takedown notice, trying to kill links that sprung up because of earlier takedown notices.

The French were indignant about reports of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Now we know they have own of their own.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

The traditional tools used by hiring managers to find employees don’t work.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

Exploring data from 33 years’ of FISA reports to Congress

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

At what point do science and magic converge? And what are the potential costs?

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

Several top Administration officials have secret email addresses, the Associated Press reports.

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.

The Moore, Oklahoma neighborhood as it was before the tornado.

Google is taking PayPal and Bitcoin on head on. They’re likely to win.

Will drivers really be okay with Google tracking everywhere they go in their self-driving car?

With its most recent “upgrade,” Gmail has become much less useful to its best customers.

A super-secret, super-secure alternative internet has been operating at Los Alamos National Labs for two and a half years.

Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.

The “social web” was with us long before the rise of Facebook, Twitter and its kind and that the old style sharing is actually much more important than the new.

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

AP has won round 1 in a case against Meltwater that would severely limit the Fair Use concept in commercial cases.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

The White House is backing an effort to overturn a bizarre ruled recently enacted by the Library of Congress

Google’s Sergey Brin says swiping a phone feels silly, so we should wear dorky goggles around all day.

The government of Malaysia paid a lot of money to get some blogs placed at various outlets.

Obama To Hold Google+ Hangout After State Of The Union; Biden to take gun questions from Field & Stream.