Big data meets politics EurActiv.com by Davide Patteri Politicians across Europe often look suspiciously at the “big data” revolution as a trend imported from the US, which encroaches on their privacy. Europe’s rude awakening to big data politics EurActiv.com by Frédéric Simon To many in the Brussels bubble, the big data revolution came as a rude awakening, … Read more
Stoical Londoners battle downpours and flooding to vote in the EU referendum Mashable! by Gianluca Mezzofiore Downpours and thunderstorms greeted British voters in southeast England on the day they cast their votes in the historic referendum on the UK’s membership in the European Union. Brexit: all bad options open Democracy News Analysis – by Fernando Betancor From … Read more
The Big Business of Europe’s Migration Crisis SAPIENS by Jim O’Donnell Governments have erected numerous barriers to stem the tide of migrants and refugees flowing into Europe. These obstacles fuel a system that exploits migrants and puts their lives in constant danger.Christian Vium What will the EU look like if UK leaves? BBC News | Europe | … Read more
Kılıçdaroğlu Threatened with Bullet Bianet :: English One person threw bullet at CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu at the funeral of the two police officers who lost their lives in the bomb attack launched in Vezneciler. Main opposition head Kılıçdaroğlu faces protests at police officers’ funeral in Istanbul Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was protested … Read more
AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin: In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The resolution failed by exactly 39 votes: 2,423-2,384 (50.4%-49.6%)—a statistical dead heat. David Palumbo-Liu, Steven Salaita, Charlotte Silver, … Read more
Turkish fury at US commando photos BBC News | Europe | World Edition Turkey calls the US “two-faced” over images appearing to show US commandos in northern Syria wearing Kurdish militia insignia Turkish President Erdoğan slams US over YPG support Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized the United States after photos of U.S. special operations forces … Read more
German churches get wi-fi ‘Godspots’ BBC News | Europe | World Edition Wi-fi hotspots will be installed at 220 Protestant churches across the Berlin and Brandenburg region. Europe’s Destructive Spirals of Distrust SAPIENS by Thomas Hylland Eriksen On February 6, 2016, thousands of people protested the immigration of Muslims, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and other cities across Europe. … Read more
How We Prepared the NSA’s Sensitive Internal Reports for Release The Intercept The 166 articles we’re releasing today from an internal NSA publication,SIDtoday, were subjected to a careful process of research, editorial evaluation, legal review, reporting, redaction, and digital processing. This article explains how that process worked. The Intercept begins publishing Snowden docs Boing Boing by Cory … Read more
Ukraine’s Jamala wins Eurovision 2016 BBC News | Europe | World Edition Ukraine’s Jamala wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with a song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin. Eurovision 2016 – We are off to Ukraine! Stephen Spillane Ukraine win the Eurovision Song Contest, Jamala Credit: Andres Putting (EBU) Congratulations to Jamala and … Read more
How we fought webspam in 2015 Google Webmaster Central Blog by Google Webmaster Central Search is a powerful tool. It helps people to find, share, and access an amazing wealth of content regardless of how they connect or where they are located. As part of Google’s search quality team, we work hard to ensure that searchers … Read more
Debate: The Böhmermann case: Did Merkel make the right decision? euro|topic Chancellor Angela Merkel has given the green light for criminal proceedings against German satirist Jan Böhmermann. His “smear poem” about Erdoğan is now the subject of a criminal investigation on charges of insulting a foreign head of state. Is Merkel kowtowing to Ankara? Brussels seeks €50 … Read more
The anthropologist as a curious subaltern? Thoughts on precarity and publics Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Proshant Chakraborty The title of this post is meant to provoke. Or so I hoped, when I first thought of it one night as I was cooking (a very thought-inspiring activity, I must … Read more
Turkish government uses the refugee crisis for social engineering. Planned refugee camps seem to be located near regions where anti-AKP citizens are in majority. That includes an Alevite village in Maraş. Alevites in Maraş were subjected to a major sectarian massacre in 1978. Europe’s migrants, Turkey’s problem POLITICO.euOn March 18, as Turkey and the EU were sealing the … Read more
Academic Released by Prosecution Brought to Repatriation Center Bianet :: English Academic Chris Stephenson detained at the courthouse where he went to support his colleagues has been released following his testimony was taken, yet police haven’t let him leave the building. Stephenson has been brought to Kumkapı Repatriation Center. British academic detained over ‘PKK propaganda’ released A … Read more
Media Freedom on the Internet: An OSCE Guidebook OSCE – Mar 9 Written by Professor Yaman Akdeniz, commissioned by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The views, opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this document are not given nor necessarily endorsed by the WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie … Read more