Survey: 96% of Recruiters Use Social Media to Find High-Quality Candidates All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison A Few Tips for Blogging Growth Daily Blog Tips Blogging is competitive and if you are new to it, you might face a tough challenge. In order to create a fan base and gather an audience around your blog, you need … Read more
Here is the link to Turkey related files. Turkish Police forces paid 150 K, Here is the invoice… Dictators’ favorite surveillance company hacked and exposed online Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza “Hacking Team” is a badly-named security contractor that helps governments spy on activists and journalists. It got hacked, badly, and more than 400GB of its data … Read more
Silicon Valley celebrates gay marriage, and the Internet’s role in it Mashable! by JP Mangalindan It’s official: Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states, and the tech world is overjoyed. 6 tech companies whose gay marriage policies were way ahead of the Supreme Court Mashable! by Seth Fiegerman w Few technology companies needed to wait for … Read more
UN: Encryption and Anonymity Must Be Protected TorrentFreak For the past several years and particularly in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, interest in encrypted and anonymous communications has spread to a much wider audience. Survey: Many Users Never Read Social Networking Terms of Service Agreements All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison As reported by SocialTimes last … Read more
New version of SecureDrop, open-source whistleblower submission system originally created by Aaron Swartz Boing Boing by Trevor Timm At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we’re excited to announce the release of a brand new version of SecureDrop, our open source whistleblower system which media organizations can use to communicate and receive documents from sources. Facebook has open sourced … Read more
Most of web users may be aware of but Friendfeed had a real role in Turkish cybersphere. I have followed many power users there. I have learnt a lot. I wonder where this bunch of power users will migrate. They already have Twitter accounts but I guess it is never the same thing… Facebook is killing … Read more
Goto’s mother said she could not find the words to describe her son’s ‘very sad death’ [Reuters] Japan mourns as ISIL says journalist is beheaded AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Video purportedly showing the death of Kenji Goto leads to condemnation globally and new fears in the pacifist nation. The BuzzFeed Editorial Standards And Ethics … Read more
Statement on the Use of Finfisher by Members of the Freedom Online Coalition EFF.org Updates by Jillian York Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of theFreedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.1 If this … Read more
Fact Check Facebook has not provided user data to Turkish authorities in response to government requests relating to the protests. More generally, we reject all government data requests from Turkish authorities and push them to formal legal channels unless it appears that there is an immediate threat to life or a child, which has been … Read more
In a 1,5 hour live interview in a TV Show that focuses on social media, the President explicitly and his interviewers implicitly stated that there was actually no web censorship in Turkey. Digital natives are bombarding this event at Ekşi Sözlük or at several Friendfeed feeds, ie here and here The presenter of the show … Read more