Connor Dougherty on rising poverty across the U.S. Looks at Census Bureau data.

Gmail down for four hours.

The couple that sued Google for taking Street View photos of their house lost the case. Apparently a complaint like this rests on proving that the privacy violation caused real harm. It sounds like the plaintiffs didn't have a strong enough case. Still, Google's opt-out response and claim that privacy is dead anyway seems like a cop out.