The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Predictably No One Trusts Google Glass A portion of Back To The Future II where Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly invades the far-flung future of 2015. Among flying cars, self-drying clothes, and hover boards a few of the citizens where these weird glasses that they use to watch TV and do other activities. The …
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‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’ David Cole NY Review of Books, 10 May 2014 EXTRACT Supporters of the National Security Agency inevitably defend its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records on the ground that it is only collecting so-called “metadata”—who you call, when you call, how long you talk. Since this does not …
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“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” ― UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Open Data, Global Game, Electronic Magna Carta, .nyc, Privacy, Open Hardware, Inclusive Access, …
We Need a Magna Carta for the Internet Huffington Post, 6 May 2014 These comments are adapted from a talk to the Net Mundial conference in Brazil on May 4. “Twenty-five years ago, when the Internet had been running for 20 years, there was internet mail and net news and remote login, but there was …
New Movement Aims to ‘Reset the Net’ Against Mass Surveillance By Kim Zetter WIRED 05.06.14 A coalition of nearly two-dozen tech companies and civil liberties groups is launching a new fight against mass internet surveillance, hoping to battle the NSA in much the same way online campaigners pushed back on bad piracy legislation in 2012. The …
Policy Paper on Connectivity 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3 Technical Background 3.1 Peering and Transit – How thousands of Networks become the Global Internet 4. Special Issues in Connectivity 4.1 Access for Scientists 4.2 Access for Rural Areas 4.3 Access for Citizens via a Civil Society Stakeholder Body 5.The Ecuadorian Political, Economic, and Infrastructural …
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