Google ceremoniously announced today that they were acquiring a small academic company called reCAPTCHA, which builds software that tries to differentiate humans from algorithms on web submissions.

Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

For a long time, the use of Google's reCAPTCHA was a data protection tightrope walk for European website operators. The service is intended to protect against bots and spam. However, the type of data ...