Sorcha Faal (Gifted Fabricator): China, Koreas, Trump Doctrine, Media Bubble, #GoogleGestapo, Lawsuits…
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Berto Jongman: “Smart” Cities = Total Surveillance Cities
With Smart Cities, Your Every Step Will Be Recorded Internet of things (IoT) devices embed their way into cities, risking people’s privacy and right to self-determination
Kosmos: David Fleming, Lean Logic, on Encounter as a Philosophy
David Fleming, on ‘Encounter’ Extract from the late David Fleming’s Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It chosen for Kosmos by the book’s editor Shaun Chamberlin ENCOUNTER: The act of recognising something—a person, a practice, a system—on its own terms. The particular character and wholeness of the other is acknowledged. …
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Penguin: Akasha by Biturin with Ethereum
A possible foundation for the post-Google Internet. Akasha World In today’s blockchain realm, AKASHA is a social and technological experiment enabling our collective memory, feelings and ideas to echo freely throughout humanity’s existence. By fusing Ethereum with the Inter-Planetary File System, we explore the implications and applications of a permanent Web in the context of …
Stephen E. Arnold: If Facebook is a Tyranny, Governments are Inept at Regulating It… #GoogleGestapo
Regulating Facebook and Unexpected Consequences After Mark Zuckerberg’s mostly frothy and somewhat entertaining testimonies for Congress and the Senate, what are we left with? Some tea leaves are saying that Facebook will likely be permitted to self regulate. What happens if governments step in. One commentator worries not just for our privacy, but for society …
Penguin How the EU could change the world through Data Asylum
How the EU could change the world through Data Asylum All that is needed is a provision that any big Internet company doing business in the EU would be required to offer the EU’s end user license agreement (EULA) as an option for all accounts, no matter where they lived. PS: Or, it might be …
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#GoogleGestapo: I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes. With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had my contact information, which could include my email address, phone number and …
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