by Erik Kain on February 3, 2012
makes a smart point about the search giant’s new privacy policy: What’s changing is not ’s privacy policies but its practices. By combining information from across all of its services, will be able to better target users with ads, offer more innovative features, and, importantly for , better compete with Facebook. Fellow Forbes writer says [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 26, 2011
Two bills are snaking their way through congress at the moment in an attempt by the entertainment industry to clamp down on online file-sharing and piracy. The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) in the House is the more famous of the two. Its counterpart in the Senate is PIPA (or the Protect IP Act.) [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 13, 2011
Remember that software installed on 140 million smartphones that tracks every keystroke you make? Smartphone users were told that Carrier IQ was only being used for diagnostic information but what exactly does this mean? And if it’s only being used for diagnostic information, why is the FBI denying a FOIA request for records of how [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 28, 2011
Two bills aim to lock down the internet with a host of new government censorship powers. Two bills are moving through the Senate and the House at the moment, aimed at creating a host of new controls and regulations over the internet, and threatening to change the way everybody does business and interacts online. SOPA, [...]
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If most of the Techonomy experience can be defined by its optimism and exuberance over the role of technology and social media in the future, Monday afternoon’s security round-table was its antithesis. Forbes editor Bruce Upbin moderated a panel including Bret Hartman of RSA, Mohd Noor Amin of IMPACT and Jody Westby of Global Cyber [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 8, 2011
Liberals defend Obama on his political victories at home and abroad, but they should focus more on his Bush-era national security policies and other broken promises. In 2008, during the aftershocks of the housing market and financial collapse and the fall of Lehman Brothers, and amidst the increasingly frightening din of anti-Obama sentiment that was [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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