Via Verlan’s French Inversion, Edvige.

As Italy slides into fascism:

However, defense of the public order cannot justify such a threat to individual rights. In principle as much as out of respect for the European Human Rights Convention, the government has an at least equal obligation to protect citizens’ privacy. The mobilization against Edvige is all the more justified in that this new information system covering French citizens is only the most recent: for the last several years, police files have proliferated, not to mention video surveillance. To cross over in this way from a society in which each person is presumed innocent to another in which everyone’s guilt is assumed constitutes a dangerous drift for a government of law.

They should have read their Google EULA!

Does the Google PageRank system reflect popularity of a website or determine it? Next week, on Oprah!