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  duran 3:13 pm on September 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: browser, chrome (2), eula (2), google (3), law, Rights, tos (2)   

  Update to the Chrome EULA story… 

  Well, Google got it through their thick heads that maybe the boiler plate EULA/TOS wasn’t such a good idea to use on the browser.

  Arstechnica reports …

  Google’s Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company tries to reuse these licenses as much as possible, “in order to keep things simple for our users.” Ward admits that sometimes “this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product” and says that Google is “working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome.”

  So, one more battle for the little guy wins.
  I’m glad google realized that this was a mistake, and that (of course pending what the next version of the EULA reads) we’ll all be able to use Chrome with out thinking that our sundry details will be shared with the rest of the world if google wants to…

   

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  duran 12:04 pm on June 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Citizen, FISA, Rights, Spying   

  Stop HR 6304, the FISA amendments act of 2008. Click the link, help support your rights as a citizen. 

  Tell Senator Obama: Hang up on Big Telecom

  This week, Senators Dodd and Feingold won a battle in the fight to stop the FISA capitulation. In an attempt to stop retroactive telecom immunity, they delayed a vote on the bill until after the July 4th recess. This buys us more time to shore up the votes needed to defeat the bill. However, it’s unlikely we’ll succeed without real support from leaders in Congress, most of whom have already abandoned us.

  Senator Reid caved in long ago, and Speaker Pelosi folded just last week. There is one leader left who could make a difference and support our cause: Senator Barack Obama.

  Back in December, Senator Obama’s office released a statement that he “unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies.”1 On Wednesday, however, Obama said in a press conference that “My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.”2

  Senator Obama still has time to make this right, but it won’t happen unless we all work together to hold him accountable.

  The delay in the FISA vote gives senators a new chance to stand up for the Constitution — will Senator Obama stand with them? Sign this petition and urge Senator Obama to vote his conscience and stand by his previous statement: No retroactive immunity for telecoms. No caving on the constitution.

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  ¹ Senator Obama’s statement on retroactive immunity from December 17, 2007.

  ² Video and selected text of Senator Obama’s press conference from June 25, 2008.