Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…

Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …

Journal: US Gap Between Rich & Poor Widens by Factor of 10

Gap Between Rich and Poor Follows Geographic Lines, U.S. Census Data Shows By Timothy R. Homan – Dec 15, 2010 Bloomberg The gap between the haves and have- nots in the U.S. is being drawn along geographic lines, Census Bureau data showed yesterday. The number of counties where median household income decreased is almost 10 …

Reference: Wikileaks Bag of Words, Personal Democracy, More Authentic

Personal Democracy Forum’s flash summit on Wikileaks Video archive of Saturday’s Wikileaks discussion, which was quite compelling… quite a bit about the new world of journalism and Wikileaks’ place in it. These are truly chaotic and “interesting” times. Mark Pesce on Wikileaks: “Everything feels more authentic.” Wikileaks is a big deal; Mark Pesce’s written the …