civil liberties

Yesterday, Google announced that it would buy privately-held Nest Labs for $3.2 billion. This was Google’s second largest acquisition ever. Nest is a smart thermostat and smoke alarm-maker which promises to give Google a leg up in the fast…

This is my tech links post that I am putting up outside the paywall and free for non-registered users. The only tech links in today's post are on the NSA.The impetus for this post was the revelation that the NSA can get access to data in…

I am a big believer in cloud computing. As storage and mobile bandwidth costs plummet, the ease of use that mobile devices give us makes the cloud compelling. The ability to access your data, your company's data or someone else's data…

I will be on BNN’s headline program at 1245 ET to talk abut the finance issues of the day. Here are the links I have been reading.

News links for 10 Jun 2013

If you are following this story, you can find links updated on this and other civil liberties-related issues on my delicious feed. Here are the latest batch of links from the past 24 hours.

Let’s be clear: it is the apathetic American people who have created this mess. They have allowed their government to operate in a veil of secrecy without any basic checks on power. If Americans don’t wake up and start demanding change, it…

Hugh Hendry made some remarks about confiscation last week that I addressed in my TV appearance on RT's capital account (see video here). The gist of his comments was that he fears government's ability to confiscate wealth as a means of…

Perhaps because they call themselves Communists, many observers, think the party is homogeneous, but it is not. There are forces of movement and forces of order. A FT columnist recently wrote about the possible threat to the post-Mao…

The answer is yes. video below