Google, the world's most-popular search-engine (and web-copy)
Controlling content for China (and France and Germany) link
Storing and (not) revealing search histories link
Wikipedia, a user-editable "encyclopedia?"
The Siegenthaler debacle
original editorial
follow-up from Wikipedia itself
Wikipedia disclaimers
Examples of other sites that exist primarily to host other's content:
KodakEasyShare terms of
service
Facebook terms of
service
Sites whose public data surprises many people:
King County Assessor's Office: link (use the ESales
Search)
The Massachusetts governor's health records: short summary
Homepages at the University of Washington:
Employee use of state computers: policy
Student use of state computers: apparently the same?
Disclaimer: CSE303 discusses the societal implications of computing. Doing so inherently requires discussing political topics, which requires bringing up and linking to opinions. We are expressly not interested in promoting any particular viewpoint. The links on this page are probably to accurate information, but the course staff is not necessarily better trained to make that judgment than anybody else.