Five ways to protect journalists and their anonymous sources Washington Post (blog) In a speech Thursday at National Defense University, President Obama discussed the Justice Department’s prosecution of leakers, emphasizing the need to ?strike the right balance between our security and our open society.? Many observers believe that Scott Lewis: Learning from social platforms … Read more
How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else) Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication last week, joining a growing group of tech companies to support the important security feature. Two-factor authentication can help mitigate the damage of a password breach or phishing attack. Hacking overshadows closer US-China military ties U.S. National Security Adviser has … Read more
Amazon employees stage second one-day strike in Germany over pay and working conditions Amazon employees working at a distribution center in Leipzig, Germany are staging a second strike today over their wages and benefits packages. HOW TO: Avoid Facebook Scams Scams are all over Facebook. There are stories telling users that Facebook will end on … Read more
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
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy: New Survey Findings from Pew and the Berkman Center Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, … Read more
Turnaround: Marissa Mayer?s first 300 days as Yahoo?s CEO Yahoo has been plagued by leadership changes among its C-level positions for years. Many of its CEOs have been struggling to find ways to either cut down on cost or innovate on products, but none appear to have been able to turn the company?s performance and … Read 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
Twitter, Facebook to pay tax in Turkey The Turkish Finance Ministry has sped up its work to collect taxes from the online advertising market. ‘Geography of Hate’ Maps Racist, Homophobic, Ableist Tweets Twitter has the capacity to ignite revolutions and enable small acts of kindness, but there’s also a darker side to the microblogging … Read more
Obama Opens Government Data So Devs Can Build New Products President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday requiring federal agencies to make their publicly accessible data open and machine-readable Dark Net: Anonymous Underbelly of the Internet ABC30.com FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — An Action News investigation is shining a bright light on a very shady … Read more
How LinkedIn is Transforming Businesses from LinkedIn A visual story of how LinkedIn is transforming how companies hire, market and sell. Learn more below – Talent Solutions: http://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions Marketing Solutions: http://marketing.linkedin.com/ Sales Solutions: http://sales.linkedin.com/ Designed by Brett Wallace of Why is LinkedIn So Cool? fame:http://www.slideshare.net/brettalexwallace/why-is-linkedin-so-cool-16101604
Churnalism: discover when the “news” you’re reading is a press-release from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account from FP Passport After the Associated Press tweeted, “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” it literally took only seconds for people to … Read more
Anyone Can Be Found on Social Media in 12 Hours from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review The Disconcerting Details: How Facebook Teams Up With Data Brokers to Show You Targeted Ads from EFF.org Updates by Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman Recently, we published a blog post that described how to opt out of seeing ads … Read more
Social media and the Boston bombings: When citizens and journalists cover the same story from Nieman Journalism Lab by Hong Qu Editor?s note: Hong Qu is a user experience designer who was part of the startup team that built YouTube. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Nieman Foundation, working on an application to … Read more
Eric Schmidt: Money is the only reason Julian Assange redacted WikiLeaks files from FP Passport by John Hudson Back in 2011, Google executive Eric Schmidt conducted a secret interview with Julian Assange while the WikiLeaks founder was under house arrest in Britain. The nature of the interview has not been revealed until now, a week … Read more
Czech ambassador clarifies that Czech Republic is not Chechnya from FP Passport by Marya Hannun Brothers in arms: A brief history of sibling terror plots from FP Passport by Colin Daileda Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Track Down the Boston Bombers (and Why Humans Are Still Better at It) from Bilişim Hukuku Günlüğü … Read more