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“The U.S. government sued to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market … the U.S. is seeking a declaration that Dallas-based AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, would violate U.S. antitrust law.”
“At the moment one thing is clear — as a preventive measure we plan to increase the capacity of Internet monitoring so we can pick up information from the Internet about possible attack plans or anything that can jeopardise internal security,” he told AFP.
> 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.”
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently discussed the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments on Countdown with Kieth Olbermann. Wyden made two notable observations: On the Patriot Act: “There is growing gap between … Continue reading
> From the article: “Police would no longer be able to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans’ whereabouts, according to legislation introduced today that would require search warrants to monitor the locations of cars or mobile devices.”
> From the article: Bill would force ISPs to keep logs of customers’ activities for 1yr in case police want to review them … to make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents named the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher recently interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt at D9. The whole thing is worth a watch, but two statements by Schmidt were truly exceptional. The first is his definition of privacy, the second is his framing … Continue reading
In preparation for the 2011 Graduate Center-Humboldt University Summer Seminar that I’ll be participating in, I thought it would useful to take stock of some of the recent informational happenings in Germany: Germany is now the largest market for video … Continue reading
False narratives crumble when confronted with lived experiences, and I can’t think of a better example than the case of Jackie Speier. Borders and barriers are thrown up to segregate people, places, and things from each other so that the … Continue reading
> From the article: “The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011 would create a framework for how companies can collect, store and distribute personal information, and would require companies to employ security measures to protect that information.”
> From the article: “Facebook and 4Chan are nothing more than human behavior manifest digitally, so it’s fitting that Zuckerberg and 4Chan Founder Chris Poole would have different ideas about about the rules that should govern online behavior.”
> From the article: “In a package of proposals to be unveiled, the EU justice commissioner intends to force Facebook and other social networking sites to make high standards of data privacy the default setting and give control over data back to the user.”
From Berners-Lee’s Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality:
. . . people seem to think the Web is some sort of piece of nature,
and if it starts to wither, well, that’s just one of those unfortunate things we can’t help.Not so.
We create the Web, by designing computer protocols and software; this process is completely under our control. We choose what properties we want it to have and not have. (emphasis added)
> From the Judge’s Ruling: “The advance of technology will continue ad infinitum … An Orwellian state is now technologically feasible. Without adequate judicial preservation of privacy, there is nothing to protect our citizens from being tracked 24/7.”
> From the article: “Antitrust regulators face a tough decision on whether to allow Google to buy ITA Software, a company that organizes online flight information.”