snowden on games xirdalium Here is a passage from chapter two of ↑Glenn Greenwald‘s excellent newest book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” (2014), which I’ve recently read: Seven things you should know about Tor Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Tor (The Onion Router) is a military-grade, secure tool for increasing the privacy and anonymity … Read more
Facebook manipulated 690,000 users’ News Feeds to run a psychology experiment The Next Web by Jon Russell Facebook is more than just a social network, it is also officially an online science laboratory. The company has revealed in a research paper that it carried out a week-long experiment that affected nearly 700,000 users to test the effects of transferring emotion … Read more
Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose EFF.org Updates by Danny O’Brien It’s official: the last holdout for the open web has fallen. Flanked on all sides by Google, Microsoft, Opera, and (it appears) Safari’s support and promotion of the EME DRM-in-HTML standard, Mozilla is giving in to pressure from … Read more
Don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back: http://resetthenet.org ************************ 8 Thought-Provoking Quotes From the Surveillance vs. Privacy Debate Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 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 … Read more
A reading list on the sharing economy open Democracy News Analysis – by Adam Parsons Want more details on the sharing economy and where it might be heading in the future? Check out this comprehensive list of resources, complete with web links. Agyeman, Julian, Duncan McLaren and Adrianne Schaefer-Borrego, Sharing Cities, Friends of the Earth … Read more
Russia Intends to Clean Up ?Internet Pollution? Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock The Russian government is drafting a new project that would redefine the ?principles of state cultural policy.? In a concept paper shared with the press this week, a working group led by Sergei Ivanov, Putin’s chief of staff, declared Russia’s need … Read more
Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules The European Union has been expanding since its creation in the 1950s and is now comprised of 28 member states, each committed to EU law. One of the key roles of the EU?s Court of Justice is to examine and interpret EU legislation to ensure its uniform application across … Read more
Anyone Can Be Found on Social Media in 12 Hours from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review The Disconcerting Details: How Facebook Teams Up With Data Brokers to Show You Targeted Ads from EFF.org Updates by Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman Recently, we published a blog post that described how to opt out of seeing ads … Read more