Journalism agenda: “Snowden to journalists: your best defense is legal limits on spying, not crypto”

Snowden to journalists: your best defense is legal limits on spying, not crypto Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh3HWTwDNzU Edward Snowden videoconferenced with a journalism roundtable at Editors Lab participants at Süddeutsche Zeitung (home of the Panama Papers) about the effect of state surveillance on a free press. The New York Times’ earnings report is more proof … Read more

#PanamaPapers roundup: Iceland’s Prime Minister; the First Casualty

Panama Papers: Pirates Prepare to Takeover Iceland (Update) TorrentFreak by Andy From August 2015, an anonymous source began leaking around 11.5 million secret documents created by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Chinese Censors Erase #PanamaPapers Evidence From Web Global Voices Online by Oiwan Lam Relatives of current top leader … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: ECHR says Swiss wrong to prosecute Turkish politician Armenian genocide denier, SOME TURKISH NATIONALISTS CLAIM THIS MEANS THERE WAS NO GENOCIDE, ass*oles as usual…

Swiss wrong to prosecute politician for denying Armenian genocide, court rules World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Agence France-Presse in Strasbourg European court of human rights said prosecution of Turkish politician Doğu Perinçek an infringement of his right to free speech Thousands of migrants enter Slovenia  BBC News | Europe | World Edition Thousands of weary migrants … Read more