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8 Thought-Provoking Quotes From the Surveillance vs. Privacy Debate
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Wikipedia tweaks mobile design to put emphasis on contributors
The Next Web by Owen Williams
Wikimedia has been thinking hard about how to better humanize it?s editable encyclopedia, with a project kicking off last September to try with the aim of showcasing the humans behind the articles.
Glenn Greenwald and Michael Hayden debate surveillance
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Every year, Canada’s Munk debates feature high-level, high-profile debates on burning policy issues.
Cambodia’s bloggerati fear new internet law
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Bloggers and campaigners in Cambodia warn that new law is intended to thwart online debate.
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Last week, the White House released itsreport on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we?ve had a chance to read the report we?d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn?t, and what we thought was missing.
Smartphones: The silent killer of the Web as you know it
The Next Web by Owen Williams
The PC is dying, long live the PC! These headlines have been thrown around for years, as sales of laptops and desktops have continually dwindled downward. The tablet has long been pinned as the murderer of the traditional computers and it certainly looked like it was going to be the one to do away with them (perhaps in a few years), with the focus of many companies such as Apple and Microsoft shifting towards a tablet-first world. It?s obvious from the steadily declining shipments of traditional computers and companies exiting the PC market, that it?s not looking good for PCs, with tablets regularly?
5 Bitcoin Projects That Could Make Payments Far More Anonymous
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Here are a few of the projects seeking a more private way to bitcoin
Wikipedia Gets a New Boss: ‘This Is Big in Every Way’
Mark Graham on 5 May 2014 at 15:38PM
I would like to share a final report that has come out of our project to map voice, representation, and participation on Wikipedia (carried out with Bernie Hogan, Ilhem Allagui, Ralph Straumann, Claudio Calvino, Ahmed Medhat, Heather Ford, and Taha Yasseri). The report contains a summary of most of the work that we did, as well as key
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