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Cyberculture agenda: “Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter…”The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online…

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TWITTER TRANSPARENCY REPORT: Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter  Bianet :: English Turkey has been listed as the country with the greatest number of removal requests in Twitter’s first biannual Transparency Report of 2016. The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online  MIT Technology Review The way software agents interact on the Web is … Read more

In case you missed in Cyberculture agenda: A UN body ruled Julian Assange’s 3.5 Year Detainment in Embassy Unlawful… “Pirate Bay Transforms into The World’s Biggest Streaming Site…

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Julian Assange’s 3.5 Year Detainment in Embassy Ruled Unlawful Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter A UN body has determined that UK and Swedish authorities have unlawfully detained the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorean embassy, where he has been living in asylum since 2012 to avoid arrest. Julian Assange ‘arbitrarily held’  BBC News | Europe | World … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Tech industry association vs. German privacy watchdogs….

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Tech industry association bashes German privacy watchdogs EurActiv.com The European tech industry is firing back against German data privacy chiefs, who announced this week that they would suspend data transfers to the United States and suggested businesses operating in Europe store data only in EU member states. Migrants grieve and wait on Greek island BBC News | … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: CIA Director John Brennan emails in Wikileaks… Open Access Week 2015…

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CIA Director John Brennan emails WikiLeaks Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan’s non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects. John Brennan WikiLeaks Is Publishing the CIA Director’s Hacked Emails  Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg Days … Read more

Twitter’s new Transparency Report: Turkey is unashamedly the worst offender… -Cyberculture agenda

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A NEWS FROM CENSORED WEBSITE [DAĞ MEDYA] : Twitter Transparency Report: 408 of 442 Content Removal Request Comes from Turkey Bianet :: English According to the same report, 408 content removal requests by court decision came from Turkey in the first six months of 2015; 125 twitter accounts were suspended, 1667 tweets were removed. Twitter increases scope … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Lessons from the Digital Classroom

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Lessons from the Digital Classroom MIT Technology Review Technologists and venture capitalists are betting that the data online learning generates will reshape education.   Hacking Team Leak Shows How Secretive Zero-Day Exploit Sales Work Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter It was not easy for Hacking Team to buy zero-day exploits to sell to governments.   Once again: … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Dictators’ favorite surveillance company hacked, Turkey files also exposed!

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Here is the link to Turkey related files. Turkish Police forces paid 150 K, Here is the invoice… Dictators’ favorite surveillance company hacked and exposed online  Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza “Hacking Team” is a badly-named security contractor that helps governments spy on activists and journalists. It got hacked, badly, and more than 400GB of its data … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality in Europe… “Reddit Turns 10…

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Europe: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality  EFF.org Updates Americans won big on net neutrality in February, when the FCC voted to adoptnew rules that would allow it to rein in the abusive and discriminatory practices of big telecommunications operators, such as blocking or throttling of Internet data, and charging content providers for … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: WikiLeaks releases some U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978…

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  PressRelease here WikiLeaks releases a trove of U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978 Mashable! by Stan Schroeder WikiLeaks has released more than half a million U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978, the whistleblower website has announced. Despite NSA leaks, many Americans haven’t changed their privacy settings  Mashable! by Louise Roug Contrary to the view that people have “nothing … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “common data visualization mistakes… “Reddit vs. Trolls…

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How Richard Stallman does his computing  kottke.org by Jason Kottke Richard Stallman, the free software activist and author of some of the world’s most used and useful software, probably uses his computer and the Internet a lot differently than you do. For starters, ethics and privacy concerns trump his need for convenience. EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: WikiLeaks has started accepting secret documents at Tor address: wlupld3ptjvsgwqw.onion

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WikiLeaks has started accepting secret documents again after nearly five years  The Next Web by Jackie Dove You can once again submit secrets to WikiLeaks anonymously, without worrying that some network spy — or even a WikiLeaks staffer — will reveal your identity. The site announced today that, after several years, it has now launched a beta version its … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Mobile Phone may Detect Earthquakes…

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Your Mobile Phone can Detect Earthquakes Digital Inspiration Technology Blog by Amit Agarwal Was it just you or did the ground really shake? Your iPhone, iPad and most newer mobile phones can work as basic seismometers, the same instrument that is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes and volcanoes. You don’t need to install any apps, just … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Journalists’ Twitter messages blocked.. Eren Keskin sentenced…

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A Turkish court decides to block hundreds of specific messages mostly written by journalists. Here is the news in Turkish and here is the court decision.   Eren Keskin Sentenced to 10 Months Due to Article 301  Bianet :: English Human rights advocate Eren Keskin was sentenced to 10 months of prison due to Article 301, a … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Gottfrid Svartholm Found Guilty in Hacking Trial…”Hungary Protests Against “Internet Tax”

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Gottfrid Svartholm Found Guilty in Hacking Trial  TorrentFreak After being arrested in his Cambodian apartment in September 2012 it took two years before Gottfrid Svartholm went on trial in Denmark.   Drone Footage of Hungary Protests Against “Internet Tax” Global Voices Online Hungarians have been rallying in masses against a proposed tax on Internet traffic that many … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: ” Disruptive Technology of Silicon Valley…”The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 “Raid-Proof” Virtual Machines…

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    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