FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows
from TorrentFreak by Ernesto
US Army to use pre-emptive cyber-strikes against threats
from Hurriyet Daily News
U.S. military officers have endorsed the principle of pre-emptive cyber-strikes
Rupert Murdoch claims Chinese hackers are still attacking the Wall Street Journal
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
Trolls and Tribulations
from EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer
Patent trolls ? companies that assert patents as a business model instead of creating products ? have been in the news lately. This is hardly surprising, given that troll lawsuits now make up the majority of new patent cases. And the litigation is only the tip of the iceberg: patent trolls send out hundreds of demand letters for each suit filed in court. At EFF, we have been following this issue closely and are working hard to bring reform to fix the patent mess.
Facebook Unfriending Has Real-Life Consequences
from Mashable! by BusinessNewsDaily
Yahoo picks up Google as an ad provider, calling the partnership a move to expand its network
from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm
Today Yahoo announced a non-exclusive deal with Google that will see advertisements from the search giant appear on its new partner?s web properties for users around the world.
RuNet Freedom: a Pirate’s Revenge
from Global Voices Online by Andrey Tselikov
Amid brazen attempts [GV] to censor the RuNet, one group is fighting back. On February 4, the Pirate Party of Russia has announced [ru] a new specialized internet hosting service, called the PirateHost [ru], created in retaliation to attacks on Russian internet freedoms.
Yochai Benkler’s “Open Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption” published in latest issue of JOLT
from Berkman Center Newsfeed by ashar
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of Open Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption, authored by Yochai Benkler, and published in the latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. The paper can be downloaded directly here (PDF).
House bill argues that it?s the US?s role to ?promote a global Internet free from government control?
from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm
Pirate Bay Founder Helped Wikileaks On Several Fronts
from TorrentFreak by Ernesto
This Friday will see the release of TPB AFK, a dark documentary that will follow the three Pirate Bay founder during their trials in Sweden.
Irish and German regulators confirm: Facebook has deleted all facial recognition data for EU users
from The Next Web by Nick Summers
Iran?s Next President Might Be a Redditor
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
At last! Twitter search results are finally starting to show tweets older than a week
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
How Facebook Briefly Killed the Internet
from Mashable! by Christina Warren