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Eurosphere roundup: “EU lawmakers vote stricter data privacy rules…France brings US eavesdropping to EU summit table

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EU lawmakers vote stricter data privacy rules   Lawmakers in the European Parliament?s civil liberties committee voted to strengthen Europe’s data protection laws on Monday (21 October), including plans to impose fines of up to ?100 million on companies such as Yahoo!, Facebook or Google if they break the rules.   The vote in parliament’s civil … Read more

2013 Man Booker Prize goes to a long novel, The Luminaries. A literati roundup…

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New Zealand Author Eleanor Catton Wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize 28 year old Eleanor Catton becomes the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize. She won for her novel, The Luminaries. Neil Gaiman explains the worth and value of libraries In an absolutely stirring, smashing speech delivered as the Reading Agency annual lecture, Neil … Read more

Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Cezaevinde bir ölüm daha… Tutuklu hasta Hasan Kaya öldü

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Tutuklu hasta Hasan Kaya, Bingöl M Tipi Cezaevi?nde iki gün önce kalp krizi geçirerek öldü.

İnsan Hakları Derneği (İHD) İstanbul Şubesi Cezaevi Komisyonu’nun Twitter hesabında tutuklu hasta Hasan Kaya’nın öldüğü bildirildi. Özgür Gündem gazetesinin web sitesinde yer alan bilgiye göre, şeker hastası Hasan Kaya kalp krizi geçirerek öldü.

İHD Şube Başkanı Av. Adnan Kaya geçen hafta yaptığı bir açıklamaya göre, cezaevlerinde 154?ü ağır hasta olmak üzere 526 tutuklu bulunuyor.

İHD İstanbul Şubesi Cezaevi Komisyonu’nun hesabında yer alan tweetler şöyle:

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EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative… a Cyberculture roundup…

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EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative Citing Concerns Over NSA?s Impact on Corporate Members, EFF Leaves Industry Group San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today withdrew from the Global Network Initiative (GNI), citing a fundamental breakdown in confidence that the group’s corporate members are able to speak freely about their own internal privacy … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: LSE research shows piracy isn’t killing big content…Twitter IPO… Anonymous members indicted…

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  London School of Economics: piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims Copyright and Creation, a policy brief from a collection of respected scholars at the rock-ribbed London School of Economics, argues that the evidence shows that piracy isn’t causing any grave harm to the entertainment industry, and that anti-piracy … Read more

Social causes has its own network now! … Google’s Language Translation a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics- Cyberculture roundup…

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How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers China Will Unblock Facebook and Twitter in Free Trade Zone China?s ambitious Shanghai Free Trade Zone is designed to welcome foreign … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Peace and Democracy Party asks Facebook to reopen its official pages…Celebrate Software Freedom Day…

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  Peace and Democracy Party asks Facebook to reopen its official pages BDP officials met with Facebook representatives requesting them to reopen their pages No, the Government Never Asked Linus Torvalds for a Backdoor in Linux   Contrary to some online reports, Linus Torvalds, a founder of Linux, was never asked by the U.S. government … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Facebook, Twitter freedom in Iran last not much… Only a technical glitch…

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Technical glitch gives Iranians access to Facebook, Twitter, official says Iranians gained direct access to Facebook and Twitter for the first time in four years because of a technical fault   In Iran, ?God Has Freed Facebook? For the first time since 2009, millions of Iranians are able to share their status updates on Facebook. … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Most Influential Emotions On Social Networks Revealed…”Iran Unblocks Twitter and Facebook

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  Most Influential Emotions On Social Networks Revealed Anger spreads faster and more broadly than joy, say computer scientists who have analysed sentiment on the Chinese Twitter-like service Weibo   Internet Freedom and Political Space The Internet has become a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate freedom to browse, … Read more

Americana roundup:

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Indians Push Back on Racist Taunts to Miss America 2014 New York’s Nina Davuluri, 24, has won the Miss America 2014 title. Photo from Miss New York Organization’s Facebook Page A Cost Analysis of the U.S. Air Force Overseas Posture Estimates the costs associated with U.S. and overseas Air Force installations and units to provide … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Pew report on Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online, Location-Based Services… FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack..

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Can Twitter Go Public and Still Be a Champion of Free Speech? With Twitter set to make its debut on American stock exchanges, a critical question looms: Can toppling dictators also be good business? Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online A new survey finds that most internet users would like to be anonymous online, but many … Read more

My favorite tools Storify bought by Livefyre

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Livefyre acquires Storify to bolster its social storytelling capabilities Storify, the service that lets anyone curate social media conversations across Twitter, Facebook, and other mediums, has been acquired by Livefyre for an undisclosed sum. Storify sold to Livefyre in a merging of social curation toolsA tech startup with roots deeply entrenched in the journalism world … Read more

” “three strikes” programs don’t reduce piracy..The NSA and Your Mobile Phone…

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Scholar shows “three strikes” programs don’t reduce piracy Evaluating Graduated Response, a new paper from Rebecca Giblin from the law school at Australia’s Monash University looks at the impact of “three strikes” and “graduated response” punishments for file-sharing. Countries including France, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.K., Ireland and the U.S. have adopted systems … Read more

FP blog shows “Who to Watch in Congress This Week on Syria.. Syria updates…

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Who to Watch in Congress This Week on Syria As of Monday morning, the majority of U.S. legislators still have yet to announce theirposition on whether they’ll vote to authorize the use of military force against Syria. They’re running out of time to come to a decision, though; the resolution passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Yahoo Publishes First Transparency Report.. Wide, wide world of surveillance…

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Yahoo Publishes First Transparency Report Yahoo published its first transparency report on Friday, disclosing the number of government requests for data that the company received in the first six months of 2013. Amid NSA spying scandal, Yahoo releases transparency report on gov data requests The Internet company Yahoo! has released a Transparency Report today, detailing … Read more