The BBC has published this follow-up on the legality of Google Street View in the UK, which I had previously written about here. Thankfully, the Information Commissioner has ruled on the side of sanity by upholding Britain’s privacy laws as they are written, as opposed to how they are sometimes interpreted by certain police [...]

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Privacy advocacy group ‘Privacy International’ in the UK is all up in arms about Google Street View’s recent endeavor to start mapping out the streets of England. The BBC writes about it here.
Privacy debates are always interesting to me, because despite the legitimate points that can be raised on either side of the issue, [...]

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In the past, we’ve blogged about issues such as ISP bandwidth throttling, and net neutrality. According to the CBC, the Canadian government has formed an organization exclusively to deal with issues between telecommunications companies, and consumers/small businesses. Unfortunately, word of the organization still hasn’t gotten around.
The Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services was [...]

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Hearing Jenny McCarthy’s stance on vaccinations sickened me. This was no longer the innocent pseudo-science of UFO sightings and Free Energy, but rather a movement that has resulted in thousands of deaths world-wide, and outbreaks of previously-eradicated diseases in one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world. Enraged, I decided to [...]

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As it turns out, cell towers actually are dangerous… just not in the way we had previously discussed. A post on the ‘Apple 2.0′ blog on cnn.com outlines one of the hidden dangers of the increased number of cell towers.
On May 16, Jonathan Guilford, 25, of Fort Payne, Alabama, was working on an AT&T [...]

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With each and every new or modern technology, there are typically those who, perhaps through either a lack of understanding of that technology or even an antipathy for it openly oppose its establishment and advancement.
This is something we here at Lintbox have encountered before. There are plenty of opponents to new technologies who argue [...]

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By now, you’ve probably heard something of the network neutrality debate. To sum it up, until a few months ago the flow of data on the internet was unrestricted and free. Then companies like Bell and Rogers realized that they could save money be restricting the flow of information over their networks. Both those companies [...]

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Probably. There are no definite answers in science; all we can ever know are effects to various degrees of certainty. I was originally planning to write a long follow-up article to criticisms of my original post on cell tower radiation (and I still am), but I thought a bit more of an immediate [...]

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Recently, a new cell tower was erected at a nearby intersection. To most people, this means improved cell reception, fewer dropped calls, and at the very least a brand new flagpole. However, one group of residents was not pleased with this new addition to the neighborhood. Believing that cell towers emit radiation [...]

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