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Two controversial pieces of legislation that would significantly alter the architecture of the internet are currently being debated in congress: the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the … Continue reading
The official Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel is now live! This channel includes video of presentations, panels, and discussions from the Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference that took place at both the University of Oregon and the CUNY … Continue reading
From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA):
> From the article: “Facebook has agreed to disable the profiles of prison inmates in California whose accounts have been updated while they are behind bars.”
> From the article: “Apple has removed a WikiLeaks app from its App Store just a few short days after its release.”
Big government collaborates with big business to deny service to WikiLeaks, everyday people get organized and deny those big businesses the ability to offer services . . . and a 16 year-old Dutch kid gets arrested? From Bloomberg News: … … Continue reading
> From the article: “Since Wikileaks released the US embassy cables on 28 November it’s come under pressure on several fronts … We list the companies, politicians and organisations making life difficult for Wikileaks and Julian Assange.”
> From the article: “the cyberwar over WikiLeaks continues to rage… Governments, organizations and corporations are building cyber-fortresses, and some of the actors are building formal or loose armies of hackers to attack the opposition.”
> From the article: “COICA sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the DNS, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid online ad networks from working with the site.”
> From the article: “Australia came under fire today from the United States for its proposed internet filtering system, which, if implemented, would be the strictest of any democracy.”
Three Google executives were convicted in Italian courts today for violating privacy laws: David C. Drummond (senior vice president), George De Los Reyes (former chief financial officer), and Peter Fleischer (privacy director). The Telegraph has a review of the trial … Continue reading
A reminder that Google doesn’t really search “the web,” just a relatively narrow slice of it. From Threat Level: The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the … Continue reading
According to Apple, jailbreaking your iPhone violates Apple’s license agreement, constitutes copyright infringement – and – is a threat to national security. Meet the new weapon of mass destruction: the hacked iPhone. Just like Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, the iPhone of … Continue reading
> Key quote from Zittrain: “If the market settles into a handful of GATED CLOUD COMMUNITIES whose proprietors control the availability of new code, the time may come to ensure that their platforms do not discriminate” (emphasis added).
On 07.17.09 Amazon got a bit Orwellian by remotely deleting copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from people’s Kindles — copies that were legitimately purchased from Amazon (the original purchase was credited to people’s accounts). The Kindle is … Continue reading