Posts Tagged with ‘human-rights’

When I first saw Mike Arrington's post about Google revealing the identity of an Orkut user to Indian officials (leading to an arrest) hit Techmeme yesterday, I knew it was going to stir a bunch of people up. Until the Monday morning Twitter stream started going full-blast, however, I didn't know how vocal the Google detractors were going to be. Google's alleged mantra "Don't Be Evil" gets used quite a bit whenever people don't agree with one of Google's moves, [...]

In the last few years, Yahoo! has tread through a considerable number of less-than-stellar quarters – some of which have been marked by particularly unsavory moments – and only in recent months has it begun to make pointed attempts at salvaging some grace, honor and fortitude with the divestiture of some ailing and markedly unimpressive products and services, and through numerous public admissions of error by it’s new chief, company co-founder Jerry Yang. (Most things aren’t his fault specifically, [...]

What is up with China? For quite a while I was railing against Google for being so ethnocentric, and Yahoo! too. Now it seems that China's “Army hackers” are in the news again allegedly infecting German ministries with spy programs. German magazine Der Spiegel reported that German government ministries including Chancellor Angel Merkel's office have been infected by these attacks. We reported on this Chinese “hacker army” back in June, and this latest allegation seems to signal a Cyber war that is heating [...]

The business side of me understands that China is a country more and more companies are moving into, and that a company like Yahoo! has to be competitive and move into China if its competitors are already there.
The other side of me, however, is frustrated that while there is a very vocal minority who protested some of the board's selections for directors at their most recent shareholders' meeting, only 4% of those same shareholders supported the creation of a human [...]

A human rights group is suing Yahoo Inc. on the grounds that the company assisted China's communist government with torture and dropping dime on dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA seeks unspecific damages and Yahoo's participation in securing the release of the dissidents. Just after I complimented them on being more internationally educated and more refined than Google too, it never fails.  
Yahoo! acknowledges turning over data to the Chinese government under penalty of law there according to an AP [...]