Europe data regulators have apparently had it with Google.

After years of Google stonewalling governments on the so-called wi-spy scandal around Google snooping on individual data in homes using Street View vehicles and then, last year, changing its privacy policies without getting consent from its users, a taskforce of six...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has made job creation a top priority. Here's a test: will he require conditions to protect jobs in the T-Mobile/MetroPCS merger?

When merging companies talk about "transaction-specific efficiencies" and cost savings through "synergy," the workers involved know that pink slips are usually on the way....

How do we address surging bandwidth usage and bridge the digital divide in a country where tens of millions of families don't have any high-speed access to the Internet at home -- and everyone sees high prices often without the speeds for the most cutting edge uses of the Internet?...

As predicted, the Federal Trade Commission has punted any serious action against Google's monopoly dominance of search advertising and related sectors.  Worse, it turns out the investigation was so narrow and ultimately so perfunctory that it's hard to understand what took 19 months to get such a meager result.

Conservative...

In discussing Les Miserables, most critics have focused on the spectacle (grand), on the acting (quite outstanding) or the use of real-time singing (quite effective), but far less has been written about Victor Hugo's enduring radical politics being brought to the big screen.

This is a case of a movie...

Americans often engage in the conceit that we have the oldest written constitution in the world. But that's a false story, and a dangerous lie to boot.

Yes, a Constitution was written in 1789. And it fell apart in 1861 under the weight of its uncertainty on whether the United States...

With reports that Google is likely to be let off the hook with minor restrictions on its behavior, the Federal Trade Commission seems ready to punt on the most important antitrust case to come across its desk in years.

Given how narrowly the FTC had been approaching the case...

The America of nostalgic visions of clean-cut suburban lawns, self-sufficient breadwinners, and homogeneous communities heard its death rattle last Tuesday. To be fair, we've been hearing the hoofbeats of the Grim Reaper coming for the Silent Majority since Al Gore received the majority of the votes in the 2000 election....

Why is a software company like Google stringing cable in Kansas City for its Google Fiber initiative? Its Google Fiber announcement opens a lot of questions about where the company is going. But the details are interesting to anyone committed...

Slamming Google's violation of European privacy laws, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party of European data protection agencies issued its much anticipated report on Google's integration of user data across the company's services.  Signed by  all 27 heads of European data agencies, the letter and the accompanying...

The survival of ObamaCare and the individual mandate ultimately came down not to the Commerce Clause, but to the Sixteen Amendment, the one that clearly gives Congress the power to enforce federal power through the tax code.

While the dissenting four Justices sought to make a constitutional distinction over...

The European Union has all but announced that it will find that Google has abused its dominant position to undermine competition online -- and it is giving the company "a matter of weeks" to agree to remedies to fix the problems that the EU has identified.

The four main concerns...

It's not the crime, it's the cover-up.

You'd think most people would have learned that lesson of Watergate, but Friday's decision by the Federal Communication Commission to fine Google $25,000 for "willfully" ignoring subpoenas and delaying investigations into the company's "wi-spy" scandal should be a 25-page wake-up call that...

With the threat of the Supreme Court striking down the most important progressive domestic initiative in a generation, we should be talking about impeaching Supreme Court Justices who engage in such right-wing judicial activism.

Impeachment?  Many progressives shrink back in horror at such a supposed affront to judicial independence.  For...

Google's new privacy policy of combining all your data across all Google products -- assumedly to better market your eyeballs to advertisers -- has provoked a wave of reactions across the Internet, as well as among policymakers.

European Union data protection agencies have condemned the practice and have already indicated...

We seem to be having two debates about Google -- on the cultural side, the question is whether the company violates user privacy too much and, on the business side, is Google a monopoly threat in the marketplace?

But these are not separate issues at all.

Larry Page and Sergey...

Last week, union and management in the New York City hotel industry announced a new contract for 30,000 hotel workers in the city, including the headline-making number that housekeepers would be making $60,000 per year at the end of the seven-year contract, an increase of 30 percent over...

Google dominates Internet advertising, with 44.1% of the $113 billion per year global online advertising market, but it's quietly gunning for control of the even larger television advertising sector. As Robert Kyncl, a senior manager at Google's YouTube operation, said in a recent New Yorker interview, "[T]his industry...

There are hesitant signs of economic recovery but high unemployment is still chronic and black and Latino communities face a full-fledged jobs depression. As calculated by the Department of Labor in December, Latino unemployment was at 11.4 percent and black unemployment at 15.5 percent -- fully twice the...

Facebook this past month agreed to twenty years of independent audits of its privacy practices, joining Google which agreed earlier this year to similar audits following its breaches of user privacy when it introduced its aborted Buzz social network.

As this piece outlines, the audits should be moderately extensive...