the murky world of online financial transactions where money bounces between accounts from Cyprus to New York in the blink of an eye. "While Liberty Reserve was incorporated outside the United States, federal officials used a provision in the Patriot Act to target the organization and other financial institutions with whom they conducted business. It was the first time the provision had been used to prosecute a virtual currency provider, officials said." "Organized crime and terrorist groups are now financing their operations through these anonymous payment systems,” said Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Trend Micro, a security firm. “The financial sector no longer has a monopoly on moving capital around the world.”
Political science professor Henry Farrell in Washington Post 17 Oct, 2013: "Glenn Greenwald, who has published many of the most important scoops from the Edward Snowden leaks, is leaving The Guardian and setting up a new media venture with long-time journalist Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill from The Nation. The venture is being funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, who has suggested that he’s prepared to invest more than $250 million in the new venture."
DN 2013-06-06 Säkerhetsmyndigheten NSA har fått tillstånd av den hemliga domstolen FISA att dagligen övervaka trafiken via bredbands- och teleföretaget Verizon, skriver brittiska The Guardian. Tidningen uppger att den har kommit över en kopia av beslutet.
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 28 July 2013 While the press concentrates on the furore surrounding Edward Snowden's search for political asylum, it has forgotten the importance of his revelations "The "human interest" angle has trumped the real story, which is what the NSA revelations tell us about how our networked world actually works and the direction in which it is heading."
Das Video zeigt einen Aussschnitt aus der im Internet via Livestream übertragenen Rede vom 16.03.2012. Edmund Stoiber, der für seine Sätze ohne Verb bekannte Politiker, rührt einmal kräftig durch die Themen Acta, Internet, Urheberrecht, China, Gundgesetz und Piratenpartei.
"Mutta luultavasti hän on oikeassa siinä, että sosiaalisen median nykyiset käytännöt vahvistavat niitä vähemmän mairittelevia ominaisuuksiamme, joita sivistyksellä on koetettu korjata. Sosiaalinen media jopa palkitsee niistä. Voimmeko kuvitella online-yhteisöä, jossa hiljaiset, mukavat ja harkitut puheenvuorot voittavat äänekkäät, vihaiset ja ilkeät? Elias Aboujaoude, Virtually You. The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality. W.W. Norton & Company: New York and London, 2011. 349 s." HS-arvostelu, Marko Nenonen 10.8.2011
GigaOm 22 Aug 2012: "Co-founder and CEO Victor Henning told me that the company’s API, which offers other services access to its trove of millions of scientific documents, has just surpassed 100 million calls each month. A year after launching the service — which provides access to the information stored in around 65 million scientific papers, documents and files in Mendeley’s databases — the site has around 240 apps that employ it, and is now seeing growth rocket. And that growth, he said, comes through the increasing popularity of those apps, not through any new, specific effort on its own part."
Ett exempel från Vroniplag. Exemplet handlar om avhandlingen "Harmonisierung des europäischen Rüstungsmarktes im Spannungsfeld zwischen Art. 296 EGV und Art. 17 EUV"
From Ethan Zuckerman's blog "My heart’s in Accra" December 5, 2012. The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced “wicket”) opened Monday in Dubai...
En artikel av Leonardo Vintiñi, i Epoch Times 12 oktober 2008 om Cleve Backsters experiment med växter och lögndetektorer i början av 1960-talet och prof Ian Baldwins uppföljande forskning . "Forskare runt om i världen fortsätter att komma med bevis för att växter är mycket mer än de primitiva och passiva varelser som vi en gång trodde. En sådan forskare är Ian Baldwin från institutionen för molekylär ekologi på Max Planck-institutet i Tyskland. Baldwin hävdar att växter inte bara kan avge kemiska substanser för att försvara sig själva mot rovinsekter, utan att de också faktiskt kan kommunicera sinsemellan genom en komplex vokabulär av nukleinsyror."
HTML 5 is part of the future of the Web. Its new elements enable clearer, simpler markup that makes pages more obvious. Div and span still have their places, but those places are much more restricted than they used to be. Many pages will no longer need to use them.
E-böcker och nättidningar som publicerat material efter sista december 2014 måste arkiveras av Stockholms Kungliga Bibliotek. Varje vecka publiceras dock mer på internet än biblioteket sparat sedan 1800-talet, vilket gör att KB söker sätt att rensa bort sånt material som är överflödigt. De ska prioritera bort det som ”inte har väsentligt värde för forskning eller bevarandet av det svenska kulturarvet eller för sådant som ändå bevaras för framtiden på ett betryggande sätt”.
the CrowdCamp Workshop at CHI in Austin, Texas. The workshop was structured a lot like a hackathon, with the objective being to work in teams to produce projects, papers, or research. a proposal made by Niki Kittur, who suggested that we envision how crowdsourcing and distributed work contribute to solving grand challenges, such as economic inequality and the ongoing impact of the 2008 financial crisis
James Bamford (Threat Level), Wired 15.3.2012: "The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy."
Teknikka& talous 7.10.2011 Perusongelma on siinä, että valmistajan on osoitettava tarkastavalle viranomaiselle järjestelmän olevan riittävästi testattu ja laadukas sekä sen laitteiden olevan riittävän hyviä. Järjestelmän eri osat eivät saa olla riippuvaisia toisistaan saati estää toisen järjestelmän toimintaa häiriötilanteessa. Olkiluoto 3:n pitäisi tuottaa sähköä vuoden 2013 loppupuolella. Se edellyttää polttoaineen latausta vuoden 2012 loppuun mennessä, koska laitoksen ydintekninen käyttöönotto kestää kuukausia. Polttoainetta ei kuitenkaan voida ladata ilman Stukin antamaa käyttölupaa, joka edellyttää, että laitos ja automaatiojärjestelmä ovat valmiit. Tällä hetkellä noin 2/3 rakennustyöstä on tehty ja viimeinen rakennus on tekeillä. Pelkästään sähkökaapelia on vedetty 1000 km.
An article from Monthly Review Vol 62:10. by the Editor John Bellamy Foster and journalism professor Robert W. McChesney. "What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a pri
Granström kommenterar Platon i sin essä med anl. av Tomás Saracenos installation, som visas på Bonniers Konsthall år 2010. (Saracenos verk beskrivs av utställaren som "en enorm modell av giftspindeln Svarta änkans väv och tar sin utgångspunkt i hur veten
Tal Internetdagarna 27 oktober 2010 Anna-Karin Hatt, IT- och regionminister ". Därför ska staten gå före både vad gäller öppen källkod och öppna standarder, IPv6 och DNSSEC."
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
Warden and Allan point out that the file is moved onto new devices when an old one is replaced: "Apple might have new features in mind that require a history of your location, but that's our specualtion. The fact that [the file] is transferred across [to
"Det ser ut att ljusna i världsekonomin. Trots det ökar serverlösheten dramatiskt i Sverige. Fler och fler företag inser nämligen att det finns pengar att tjäna på att lägga e-post, projektverktyg och andra IT-lösningar i ”Molnet”. Man betalar bara för så
April 19, 2010. Facebook blog announces Community Pages (gemensakssidor) and connected profiles: "Community Pages are still in beta, but our long-term goal is to make them the best collection of shared knowledge on a topic. We're starting by showing Wikip
FOSS ILS in Academic Libraries. A map of academic libraries using a FOSS ILS. Data from http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ - Koha (yellow) - Evergreen (green) - OPALS (purple) - NewGenLib (red)
Mar. 01, 1995 By STEWART BRAND (editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, founder of The Well etc.) : "As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, there were three generations of youthful computer programmers who deli
As an example of the government’s substantial information collection capability, several documents [PDF] in the CIA’s disclosure discuss the CIA’s so-called Open Source Center, established in 2005, which has been collecting information from publicly acces
Like the rest of the technology world, we're wondering why Google has chosen to ally itself with Verizon, issuing a set of joint net neutrality recommendations that critics charge would significantly weaken the Federal Communications Commission's ability
"– FRA avlyssnar allt. Precis allt. Med FRA-lagen försöker de rättfärdiga vad de gjort hela tiden. Han gick också direkt in på piratpolitik (vilket även är nyckelpolitik för flera nyckelspelare i både röda och blå laget — men som tyvärr inte har sina lagk
During the past two months, lobbyists for the U.S. operators and Internet businesses have sent letters to European Union lawmakers promoting their competing legislative agendas, according to copies of the letters obtained by the International Herald Tribu
RITIMO, together with the FPH, has been committed for several years to the idea of building resource sites. These sites have come together to create the Coredem. The aim is to support a dynamic of collective intelligence. It is built around a platform th
Newropeans Magazine - Written by Robert Cailliau & Luca Cominassi . Thursday, 12 March 2009. "Recent governmental, technological and corporate influence on web users' rights show the need for a constitutional dimension of the protection of fundamental r
The new bill says: "The President [...] in the event of an immediate threat [...] may declare a cybersecurity emergency; and may, if the President finds it necessary for the national defense and security, and in coordination with relevant industry sector
NB: Translation from Finnish. Legally binding only in Finnish and Swedish.
Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland
Information Society Code
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"Although the content of many provisions have not been changed during the process, the Code does include some significant new provisions," Jukka Lång, Partner and Head of Data Protection at Dittmar & Indrenius, told DataGuidance. "Maybe the most important amendment is extending obligations regarding the confidentiality of communication from applying merely to traditional telecom companies to cover parties distributing electronic communication as well. Such companies may include, for example, the providers of social media services. As the Code focuses primarily on the services offered and not the company offering them, it levels the playing field, putting all communication service providers on the same line regardless of what type of company is in question."
Guardian A new report wants to foster a digital age underpinned by human rights and calls for greater transparency from global giants. But will we ever trust the internet?
Julia Powles: "The report [from Chatham House etc. ] pushes what it calls a “social compact” – an invented term, not the philosophical concept of old. It reflects the frightening prospect that the new age bonds of society are not between citizens and states, but between citizens (likely, in the imagining of its proponents, to be self-employed cheap workers of the “sharing economy” and other fabricated markets) and a nebulous “community” of “stakeholders”. "
n-ost ist eine Agentur für Osteuropa-Inhalte, ein Netzwerk für Journalisten aus Ost und West - und eine medienpolitsche NGO für starken Auslandsjournalismus. n-ost bringt Journalisten, Osteuropa-Experten und Medieninitiativen aus über 40 Ländern zusammen. Seine Mitglieder verbindet ein europäischer Blick und das Interesse, die Berichterstattung aus Osteuropa zu stärken.
"Right now we have the worst of both worlds, in which people not only cannot control their data, but also can’t really use it, due to it being spread across a number of different silo-ed websites,” says Berners-Lee. “Our goal is to develop a web architecture that gives users ownership over their data, including the freedom to switch to new applications in search of better features, pricing, and policies.”
In contrast with cloud-storage companies like Dropbox and Google Drive, Solid doesn’t own each user’s data. And unlike other emerging open-source efforts like OwnCloud, Solid offers a generic platform on which developers can build virtually any kind of application.
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. Eben Moglen. The Freedom Box
Longtemps l'idée d'une industrie numérique propre car « immatérielle » a dominé les esprits. Contre les géants du pétrole et de l'automobile, la Silicon Valley semblait l'alliée naturelle des politiques de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. Cette illusion se dissipe. Une enquête conduite sur plusieurs continents révèle le coût environnemental exorbitant du secteur des hautes technologies.
Just Net Coalition: There is an urgent need to establish legal regimes that assert the rights and ownership of people over their data, both individually and collectively.
After two years of grueling, complex and contentious debate, the ICANN EPDP team delivered its Phase 2 Final Report on July 31st, 2020. Unfortunately, and disappointingly, the policy recommended for the so-called "System for Standardized Access/Disclosure" (SSAD) fails to meet the needs of the users it supposedly is designed to benefit.
Council on Foreign Relations , Blog Post by Steven Feldstein November 30
Democracies should ask themselves whether forming yet another elite club of wealthy states represents the best means to counter China’s and fellow authoritarians’ digital rise.
How Should Democracies Confront China’s Digital Rise? Weighing the Merits of a T-10 Alliance. "Finally, before the United States assumes global leadership on tech policy, it needs to determine what its own orientation will be."
NYT article about Clearview AI Inc. and other face recognition tech companies including Chinese and South Korean ones , by Kashmir Hill, from Oct 2021. Testing f-r tech at NIST.