Turkey bans gay dating website, app Grindr Gay and bisexual male dating website Grindr has been banned by Turkey’s Directorate of Telecommunication Foursquare continues to focus on the little details. Now tells you where the action is on any given day of the week. Someone must have given Foursquare a kick up the … Read more
Eight small European Countries are the happiest on Earth Just in time for the UN General Assembly, the UN secretariat has published the second World Happiness Report. On the basis of extensive polls in 156 countries it assesses how people rate their overall happiness in life. German election: don’t forget the Turkish vote(s)! There are … Read more
Czech communists to return in office for first time since 1989 The Czech parliament voted yesterday (20 August) to dissolve itself, triggering an early election that could hand the Communist Party a share of power for the first time since a bloodless revolution ended the party’s totalitarian rule two decades ago. Opinion polls show that … Read more
Covert Twitter Ops: Israel’s Latest (Mis)Adventure in Digital Diplomacy There’s a new front in the social media wars: Israeli university campuses. Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters People hold masks with the face of Edward J. Snowden at a hearing in Brazil on the N.S.A.’s surveillance programs. Meet the … Read more
The 5 Nastiest Things the White House Has Said About Snowden If there were any doubts as to how President Obama feels about Edward Snowden, he laid them all to rest in a Friday news conference, dismissing the NSA whistleblower as no patriot. Obama denies bad relationship with ‘bored kid’ Putin President Barack Obama … Read more
72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users The Pew Research Center‘s Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults? social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely … Read more
Morning Brief: House Defeats Effort to Rein In NSA Surveillance House Defeats Effort to Rein In NSA Surveillance Top news: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have restricted how the National Security Agency (NSA) gathers phone records on millions of Americans. The 217-to-205 vote represented a victory for … Read more
NSF/PRISM skandalı bağlamında dijital gözetim meseleleri ana konumuz olacak. Edward Snowden’ın konumunu da tartışacağız. Tartışmaya Marmara Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Müh. Bölümü / Alternatif Bilişim Derneği’nden Doç. Dr. Melih Kırlıdoğ gelecek. Ayrıca Ömer Atakoğlu ve Orkut Murat Yılmaz da katkıda bulunacak. Ömer Atakoğlu (Alternatif bilişim/ nemedya eşkurucu / aktivist) (twitter.com/omeratakoglu) ile Drupal yazılımı üzerinde de duracağız. Programın son bölümünde … Read more
A huge coalition of tech companies unites to petition the US government for more NSA transparency Silicon Valley tech giants have united against a common cause: seeking greater transparency from the US?s National Security Agency and openness when it comes to surveillance activities. House Judiciary Committee Rails Against Domestic Spying The House Judiciary Committee’s hearing … Read more
Snowden applies for asylum in Russia Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia from inside Moscow’s airport, officials say. Spies and whistleblowers Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport MAIN FOCUS: Snowden wants asylum in … Read more
Snowden’s yet-unleaked leaks could be America’s ‘worst nightmare,’ says Greenwald Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who was first to publish the documents that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked about the US government’s surveillance programs, gave an interview to the Argentinean daily La Nacion. Fugitive Snowden to seek temporary asylum in Russia Fugitive former intelligence … Read more
Twitter hands over data in French anti-Semitism case Twitter said Friday it had handed over data to French authorities to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic tweets, following a complaint from a Jewish students’ group Surveillance, sousveillance and PRISM ? an op-ed for Die Zeit Friends at Die Zeit, who heard me speak … Read more
Venezuela, Nicaragua Offer Asylum to Snowden Edward Snowden might finally get what he’s been looking for: a safe haven to avoid facing justice in the United States. On Friday, the Presidents of both Venezuela and Nicaragua said they could offer the NSA whistleblower asylum. Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes to Snowden on Twitter NSA … Read more
The real reason Google wants to kill RSS Marco Arment: RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it?s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new and disrupt anyone else they?d like because nobody has to fly six salespeople out … Read more
Why doors have slammed in Snowden?s face The NSA leaks have prompted an important question: do we have strong enough oversight of our spies? Why Won?t Anyone Take Edward Snowden? Poor Edward Snowden! He?s willing to live nearly anywhere, but no country is willing to accept him. Not Ecuador. Not China, Russia, Norway, or Spain. … Read more