Twitter invests $10 million in new MIT Laboratory for Social Machines The Next Web by Josh Ong Twitter has announced a new academic partnership with MIT that includes a five-year $10 million commitment to a new Laboratory for Social Machines. Restrict Google Forms to only Allow One Entry Per Person Digital Inspiration Technology Blog by Amit … 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
Young people are the most likely to take action to protect their privacy on social networking sites Oxford Internet Institute – Blogs Internet Archive posts millions of images from old books on Flickr The Next Web by Josh Ong Internet Archive uploads more than 14 million public domain images to Flickr Evidence Grows That Online Social … Read more
No VPN on Earth Can Protect Careless Pirates TorrentFreak Last year, Philip Danks, a man from the West Midlands, UK, went into a local cinema and managed to record the movie Fast and Furious 6. He later uploaded that content to the Internet. After pleading guilty, this week Wolverhampton Crown Court sentenced him to an unprecedented33 … Read more
File-Sharing Doesn’t Hurt Box Office Revenue, Research Finds TorrentFreak Research into online piracy comes in all shapes and sizes, often with equally mixed results. Often the main question is whether piracy is hurting sales. A new study conducted by economist Koleman Strumpf is one LinkedIn behind the scenes: How multiple apps evolved into a … Read more
Facebook manipulated 690,000 users’ News Feeds to run a psychology experiment The Next Web by Jon Russell Facebook is more than just a social network, it is also officially an online science laboratory. The company has revealed in a research paper that it carried out a week-long experiment that affected nearly 700,000 users to test the effects of transferring emotion … Read more
These Pirate Parties Plan to Enter The European Parliament TorrentFreak by Ben Jones Where you can vote pirate (click to open map) In roughly two weeks time, people all over the European Union will be going to the polls to elect the next European Parliament. Five years ago, the Swedish Pirate Party had a Russians Hate Eurovision’s Bearded-Lady … Read more
Wikileaks publishes the “Internet Chapter” of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (SOPA’s back) Wikileaks has published the Internet Chapter of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a global trade-deal negotiated between corporate leaders and government reps without any democratic oversight (the US Trade Rep wouldn’t share TPP drafts with Congress, and now it is headed for fast-tracking into law). … Read more
U.S. Financial Regulator Considering Setting Rules for Bitcoin from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai U.S. Govt. Attack on Megaupload Bears Hallmarks of ?Digital Gitmo? from TorrentFreak by Robert Amsterdam Digital Gitmo, by Robert Amsterdam New Zealand is celebrated worldwide for its human rights. Renowned as being the first country in the world to grant suffrage … Read more
Iranian presidential candidate does Reddit AMA from FP Passport by Neha Paliwal The Enduring Power of Radio in the Digital Age from Mashable! by Matt Petronzio Did Terrorists Use Twitter to Increase Situational Awareness? from iRevolution by Patrick Meier Those who are still skeptical about the value of Twitter for real-time situational awareness during … Read more