EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative… a Cyberculture roundup…

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

Erkan Saka: Sızıntı Belge Gazeteciliği? (T24 için yazdığım yazı ama yayınlanması hep unutulan başka bir yazı)

 Sızıntı Belge Gazeteciliği? Güncelleme: Bu yazı Gezi olayları başlamadan önce hazırlanmıştı. Yazının sonunda Olaylarla ilgili birkaç tane faydalı link paylaşacağım. Başka güncelleme. Ne yazık ki yazı T24’te yine yayınlanmadı. Arada yeni kaynaklar çıktı ama sanırım varolan linkler hala önemli… Geçtiğimiz günlerde geleneksel medyanın yüzakı sayılabilecek yayınlarından New Yorker yeni bir uygulamaya başladı: Strongbox. Geçtiğimiz aylarda … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Google vs. Facebook on Waze, Wikileaks documentary attacking Assange…

Wikileaks Documentary Attacks Assange, Excuses Manning Julian Assange is a villain, Bradley Manning is a hero: That is the message of We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a new documentary now showing in theaters nationwide. REPORT: Google Battling Facebook For Waze Facebook?s talks to potentially acquire satellite navigation startup Waze may have hit a … Read more

Journalism roundup: 5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy.. Gawker?s ?Crackstarter?…algorithmic objectivity…

  5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter) into one of its sprawling leak investigations. As we wrote last week, by obtaining the call records of twenty AP phone … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Open Rights Group Report: “Digital Surveillance” and more…

The Internet of Things: In action   By 2015, six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet. While it may seem tricky to grasp as a concept, the internet of things is nothing simpler, and more stunning, than objects being connected to the internet. At its most mind-blowing, these objects are … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Four LulzSec hackers jailed…. Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament… Google I/O Keynote

Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile hacks and DDoS attacks affecting companies such as Sony Pictures, PBS and Fox.com in 2011 and 2012. Lulzsec?s Topiary: The … Read more