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Google Needs To Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans Eight years after Google initially took a stand against Internet censorship by exiting the Chinese search market, we are disappointed to learn the company has been secretly re-considering an extended collaboration with the  massive censorship and surveillance-wielding state .  According to an  Intercept report  released at the beginning of the month, Google is working on a censored version of its search service for release in China. In 2010, EFF and many other organizations praised Google for refusing to sacrifice the company’s values for access to the Chinese market. At the time, this move followed public backlash and several attacks on Google’s infrastructure that targeted the personal data of several prominent Chinese human rights activists. Google’s departure from China showed that strong core values in fundamental human rights could beat out short-term economic gain in the calculus of a...

Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER. Congress has never made a law saying, “Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,”— and the First Amendment wouldn’t allow such a law — but that hasn’t stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as though it was a natural right they’d had all along. Some background: in 1986, Ronald Reagan, spooked by the Matthew Broderick movie Wargames (true story!) worked with Congress to pass a sweeping cybercrime bill called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) that was exceedingly sloppily drafted. CFAA makes it a felony to “exceed[] authorized access” on someone else’s computer in many instances. Fast forward to 1998, when Bill Clinton and his Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a giant, gnarly hairball of digital copyright law that included section 1201 , which bans bypass...

Airline travel took 68 years to reach 50 million users where the internet achieved that in just 7. The same way we have seen the speed of technology adoption accelerate is happening across every industry. Between 2007 and 2017 the world’s largest companies completely changed. The future of design and collaboration is also changing. Increases in computer capabilities and miniaturization of devices change the way Designers and Specifiers make decisions. Whether it’s going beyond computers as a tool (CAD) , using Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual Reality (VR) , 3D and 4D printing, or collaborating via the cloud get insight from our future of design & collaboration infographic below. Consulting Engineers , collaborate with us to get more done with dedicated tools, resources and technical assistance.   The post The Future of Design and Collaboration appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog . Visit Toronto Wiring from Schneider Electric Blog Vi...

Written by guest blogger, Abhijeet Shegokar Arriving in Paris In February, I was fortunate to visit our Schneider Electric headquarters in Paris, also known as “The Hive” for the first time. Back then I was working with the Software Business (now Aveva) based in Lake Forest, California. I was visiting Paris to meet our colleagues from Knowledge Management Office, learn more about their operations and  about the culture at the Paris Office. I was able to meet leaders and senior managers, explore the Hive as well as Paris during my one-week visit. The day I reached Paris it was snowing and was pretty cold, and I was very thrilled with my first snow experience in the city of lights. I took the metro to the hotel, and by that time the snow had started to come down heavily. Eager to see the office, I hurriedly got ready and headed straight there. Five minutes into the walk I saw the road signs for the office and a little ahead I could see the nicely lit green logo on top of a buildi...