The Switchboard: EU passes symbolic measure calling for break-up of Google In 2014, the Internet added an entire United States to its user base. The Internet added a number of new users equivalent to about the population of the United States over the past year -- some 300 million people, reports the Switch's Nancy Scola. But the new users looked a little like the U.S. too: "relatively well-off, generally educated, and fairly young." #HappyTracksgiving: How your travels are tracked this holiday season. The Post's Craig Timberg recounts the multitude of tracking technologies watching your every move this Thanksgiving -- and pretty much every other time of year. Near-collisions between drones, airliners surge, new FAA reports show. U.S. pilots have reported a surge in near-collisions and other dangerous encounters with small drones over the past six months, reports the Post's Craig Whitlock. Since June 1, commercial airlines, private pilots and air-traffic controllers have alerted the FAA to 25 episodes in which small drones came within a few seconds or a few feet of crashing into much larger aircraft. E.U. parliament passes measure to break up Google in symbolic vote. "Europe's resentment of the American technology giant Google reached a new noise level on Thursday as the European Parliament passed a nonbinding vote to break up the company," James Kanter at the New York Times reports. "Although merely symbolic - the resolution carries no legal weight - the move came the day after a separate European body sought to further expand citizens" 'right to be forgotten' privacy protections against Google." Case suggests how government may get around phone encryption. The government cited the All Writs Act, a law that originates from a 1789 law giving courts broad authority to carry out their duties, to persuade a court to compel a phone manufacturer to provide "reasonable technical assistance" to unlock a password-protected phone, reports Danny Yadron at the Wall Street Journal. Few details are known as most facts related to the case remain under seal, but this could signal how law enforcement will approach recent moves by mobile operating system developers to expand their deployment of encryption.