How we fought webspam in 2015 Google Webmaster Central Blog by Google Webmaster Central Search is a powerful tool. It helps people to find, share, and access an amazing wealth of content regardless of how they connect or where they are located. As part of Google’s search quality team, we work hard to ensure that searchers … Read more
Advocacy groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politiwoops Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman A collection of advocacy groups from around the world on Friday released anopen letter to Twitter, calling on the company to restore API access to Politiwoops, a site that archived politicians’ deleted tweets. RELATED ARTICLE A eulogy for Politwoops, … Read more
STUDY: Using Facebook for ‘Surveillance’ Can Lead to Envy, Depression All Facebook by David Cohen Want to avoid feelings of envy that might lead to depression? Be careful how you use Facebook. The guy behind GPG, Ed Snowden’s favorite email encryption tool is going broke Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin A ProPublica story getting a lot of … Read more
10 tech conferences around the world to attend in 2015 The Next Web by Ashley Hefnawy Ashley Hefnawy is an associate editor for Shutterstock’s blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Sexual insecurities found in Google search results FlowingData » Visualization by Nathan Yau Seth Stephens-Davidowitz continues … Read more
Twitter’s transparency reports are now available in 10 languages The Next Web by Natt Garun Since launching its first transparency report in 2012, it has been Twitter’s aim to ensure users from around the globe can access this information in a clear and straightforward way. Cowardly U.S. theaters refuse to show ‘The Interview’ after free speech threats Boing Boing … Read more
Emoji for sexting Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder Flirtmoji. I don’t understand what some of these are. The EU is reportedly planning to call for Google Search to be broken off from the rest of the company The Next Web by Napier Lopez Google’s rocky relationship with the EU looks like it could be getting rockier. The European Parliament’s new … Read more
Firefox to switch default search from Google to Yahoo Mashable! by Karissa Bell Yahoo will soon be the default search engine on Firefox browsers. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: why only an anthropologist can tell the story of Anonymous Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow BitTorrent Users are Avid, Eclectic Content Buyers, Survey Finds TorrentFreak Each month 150-170 million Internet … Read more
Detekt: A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance EFF.org Updates by Eva Galperin Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including spyware that provides its purchasers the unchecked ability to target remote Internet users’ computers, to read their personal emails, listen in … 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
Google and Microsoft take steps to block Internet search results linked to child porn Google revealed today that it has been putting more than 200 people to work in the last three months to develop new technologies to block Internet search results linked to child porn, after UK Prime Minister David Cameron in June demanded Google and … Read more