00:05 Mozilla’s bad decisions led to Firefox’s decline 01:56 Mozilla prioritizes profits over privacy 03:36 Mozilla cares less about privacy than they claim. 05:22 Mozilla’s integration of tracking pixels and pocket compromises user privacy. 07:05 Mozilla’s conflicting non-profit and for-profit status raises questions about its financial motives. 09:00 Mozilla’s activism and approach to big corporations … Read more
Advocacy groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politiwoops Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman A collection of advocacy groups from around the world on Friday released anopen letter to Twitter, calling on the company to restore API access to Politiwoops, a site that archived politicians’ deleted tweets. RELATED ARTICLE A eulogy for Politwoops, … Read more
Firefox to switch default search from Google to Yahoo Mashable! by Karissa Bell Yahoo will soon be the default search engine on Firefox browsers. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: why only an anthropologist can tell the story of Anonymous Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow BitTorrent Users are Avid, Eclectic Content Buyers, Survey Finds TorrentFreak Each month 150-170 million Internet … Read more
Bitcoin, The Beginning Of Open Source Governance? Falkvinge on Infopolicy – Discussions on information policy and civil liberties by Nozomi Hayase Quality Legislation – Nozomi Hayase: In my previous article on this site, “Bitcoin, Open Source Movement for Decentralized Future”, among many other issues I addressed some concern about the existence of early adopters and this apparent … 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
Wikileaks opens Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD), searchable repository of 1970s US diplomatic and intel documents from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin WikiLeaks Releases 1.7 Million U.S. Diplomatic Records in the ‘Kissinger Cables’ from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder WikiLeaks publishes 1.7m+ United States records as it launches new ?PlusD? searchable repository from The … Read more
Pew Survey Finds Over 60% of Social Network Users Have Deleted a Friend from Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project & American Life found that most people choose restricted privacy settings. Over half of social network users (52% to 60% depending on demographic) keep their … Read more