Anonymous raises $54,798 through Indiegogo to kick-start its dedicated news site for Your Anon News from The Next Web by Nick Summers Who Really Opposes CISPA? from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman In a hearing earlier today on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), Representative Mike Rogers dismissed the opposition … Read more
Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user?s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense. Russia’s #1 Netizen Heads to Trial from Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Pussy Riot, eat your heart out. Later this week, on … Read more
CISPA Passes Committee, Advances to House Vote from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai ACLU, White House Pan CISPA’s Return from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm Obama’s regressive record makes Nixon look like Che from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Redditor Federal Reservations has made a handy post enumerating all the regressive, authoritarian, corporatist … 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
CISPA Debate Will Happen Behind Closed Doors from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group from TorrentFreak by Andy In recent decades TV shows have become woven into the lives of hundreds of millions of people but it?s only been during the last few years … Read more
Amazon’s Plan to Own Writing and Reading Advances With Goodreads Buy from Wired Top Stories by Marcus Wohlsen Amazon looked back to its roots in bookselling and forward to its future as the global overlord of all human literary output by announcing its plan today to purchase social reading site GoodReads. Amazon acquires social book … Read more
Full disclosure: Microsoft releases and breaks down government requests for user data the world around from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm EFF Joins Coalition Urging White House to Veto CISPA from EFF.org Updates by Adi Kamdar and Adi Kamdar Thirty-seven digital rights groups and businesses have come together this week to urge the … Read more
Teens and Technology 2013: New Survey Findings from Pew Research Center & Berkman Center from Berkman Center Newsfeed by ashar The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its Youth and Media Project are pleased to share a new report, the second in a series discussing issues of youth and privacy in collaboration with the … Read more
Security of Cloud Computing Users 2013 Study from Bilişim Hukuku Günlüğü by leyla keser berber Access the full Ponemon Research: http://www.ponemon.org/blog/new-security-of-cloud-computing-users-2013-study-confirms-conflicting-views-on-cloud-security-responsibility Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs to stay open, and Gopher’s still not cool. from Boing Boing by Rob Pegoraro SXSW: The Rise of Contextual Social Networks from social media vb by rohnjaymiller Three social … Read more
CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it! from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Join Namecheap and EFF in Stopping CISPA from EFF.org Updates by Adi Kamdar Thoughts on Chinese Hacking and America’s Response from Stanford Center for Internet and Society by Richard Forno The release of Mandiant’s report … Read more
Cypherpunks: a conversation that both articulates and challenges the case for Internet freedom by Cory Doctorow Download Walter Kaufmann?s Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre & Modern Thought (1960) from Open Culture by Dan Colman Walter Kaufmann spent 33 years (1947-1980) teaching philosophy at Princeton. And more than anyone else, Kaufmann introduced Nietzsche?s philosophy to the … Read more
The Demographics of Social Media Users ? 2012 from Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports Young adults are more likely than older adults to use social media. Women, African-Americans, and Latinos show high interest in sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. A victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge by leyla keser berber Settlement of litigation between … Read more
FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows from TorrentFreak by Ernesto US Army to use pre-emptive cyber-strikes against threats from Hurriyet Daily News U.S. military officers have endorsed the principle of pre-emptive cyber-strikes Rupert Murdoch claims Chinese hackers are still attacking the Wall Street Journal from The Next Web by Jon Russell Trolls and Tribulations … Read more
Geeks Are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review Now is a good time to re-set your Twitter password and disable Java in your browser from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Twitter says that it was hacked and 250,000 users may have been compromised from The Next Web by … Read more