Google?s approach to government requests for user data from The Official Google Blog by A Googler Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, when the world recognizes the importance of preserving your online privacy and security. If it?s like most other days, Google?like many companies that provide online services to users?will receive dozens of letters, … Read more
Google Releases Transparency Report Showing US Surveillance Requests Up 33% in the Last Year from EFF.org Updates by Trevor Timm Two Out of Every Three US Demands to Google Come Without A Warrant This morning, Google released their semi-annual transparency report, and once again, it revealed a troubling trend: Internet surveillance around the world continues … Read more
Mega hits 100,000 registered users in one hour as Kim Dotcom teases MPAA with ?MegaMovie? screenshot from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm Update: Mega crossed the 250,000 user mark and massive usage has brought the site to a crawl. So far, Mega has won the day. After calling Barack Obama out on Twitter, Kim … Read more
An Investigation On the Latest Cyber Security Crisis: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions from The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya I investigated the first Turkish communication scandal of 2013 that a Turkish Internet authority called TurkTrust produced an improper certificate for EGO, the public transit agency of Ankara municipality, which could … Read more
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Marking the birth of the modern-day Internet from The Official Google Blog by A Googler Today is the 30th birthday of the modern-day Internet. Five years ago we marked the occasion with a doodle. This year we invited Vint Cerf to tell the story. Vint is widely regarded as one of the … Read more
United States Refuses to Sign UN Internet Treaty by Alex Fitzpatrick The US refuses to ratify the proposed UN telecom treaty over Internet regulatory worries by Alex Wilhelm Unexpected Controversy Erupts at UN Internet Conference by Alex Fitzpatrick Compromise UN language on Internet regulation may still be too strong for the US delegation?s tastes … Read more
13.00-14.45- Social Media Developments – Impacts to Media Change: New Media-New Society Chairperson: Yard. Doç. Dr. Murat Akser, Kadir Has University Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dimitris Charalambis, University of Athens Tartışmacılar: ? İsmail Hakkı Polat, Kadir Has University ? Dr. Özgür Uçkan, Bilgi University ? Yard. Doç. Dr. Erkan Saka, Bilgi University ? Yard. Doç. … Read more
Cell Phone Activities 2012 from Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports Photo taking, texting, and accessing the internet are the most popular activities people pursue with their mobile phones Google launches ?Defend Your Net? campaign in Germany to protest against planned copyright restrictions from The Next Web by Matt Brian For Google, what is happening in Germany … Read more
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop from TorrentFreak by enigmaxVery soon in the United States, letters will be sent out to Internet account holders informing them that they should stop sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent. The message in the US from mainstream rightsholders is designed to be educational, but more … Read more
Some Things Never Change: Governments Still Present Biggest Threat to Open Internet from EFF.org Updates by Jillian C. York Some things change, but others stay the same. While the types of threats facing Internet users worldwide have diversified over the past few years, from targeted malware to distributed denial of service attacks, one thing … Read more
Social Media, Internet Shutdowns are the Latest Weapons in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from EFF.org Updates by Eva Galperin Days ago the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched Operation Pillar of Defense, its latest military operation against Hamas in Gaza, firing over one hundred rockets into the Gaza Strip in response to rockets targeting Israel. The attacks … Read more
BBC needs ?radical overhaul?: chairman from Hurriyet Daily News The head of the BBC?s governing body said yesterday the broadcaster needs a radical overhaul following the resignation.. BBC needs to relearn its journalistic ABC Endless layers of checking by executives and lawyers cannot replace experienced professional judgment, writes Philip Stephens MAIN FOCUS: BBC mired … Read more
Extensive Torture Kills Iranian Blogger in Prison from The Blog Iranian netizen Sattar Beheshti is believed dead six days after he was arrested and taken into custody in Tehran. Beheshti was believed to have died under torture while he was being interrogated. Iranian blogger who was tortured and died in custody is buried from Boing … Read more
Obama To MTV: No Facebook Profile For Malia from All Facebook by Jennifer Moire Infographic of shifting US political ideologies from kottke.org by Jason Kottke It was not my intent to be so politically oriented this morning but here we are. This is a chart that tracks the ideologies of the Democratic and Republican … Read more