What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson
Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson.
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The Internet’s Original Sin
It’s not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web.
I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me
I like everything. Or at least I did, for 48 hours. Literally everything Facebook sent my way, I liked—even if I hated it. I decided to embark on a campaign of conscious liking, to see how it would affect what Facebook showed me.
WTF is cross-device tracking?
The mobile ad ecosystem is in “chaos,” and cross-device tracking aims to make sense of it. Here, we aim to make sense of cross-device tracking.
Email Encryption with Tutanota – Easy and Secure.
The emails sent with Tutanota are end-to-end encrypted. That means the encryption process takes place locally at the sender and the decryption process takes place locally at the recipient. While being send through the internet all data (subject, content, attachments) are end-to-end encrypted.
As data overflows online, researchers grapple with ethics
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of start-ups, which they say could transform social science research.
“This is a new era,” said Jeffrey T. Hancock, a Cornell University professor of communication and information science. “I liken it a little bit to when chemistry got the microscope.”
Pro-Privacy Blackphone Now Shipping | TechCrunch
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone that focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user, has started shipping to its first wave of buyers.
Is Big Data Spreading Inequality? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
Does the collection of data by companies threaten consumers’ civil rights?
Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords – NYTimes.com
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
Global Opinions of U.S. Surveillance
The Pew Research Center’s 2014 Global attitudes survey asked 48,643 respondents in 44 countries what they thought about the American government monitoring communications, such as emails and phone calls, in the U.S. and other countries.
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