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2014/01/082014/01/08

John Danaher: Rule by Algorithm? Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy

Rule by Algorithm? Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy An increasing number of people are worried about the way in which our data is being mined by governments and corporations. One of these people is Evgeny Morozov. In an article that appeared in the MIT Technology Review back in October 2013, he argued that …

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2014/01/072014/01/07

Lanier: Silicon Valley Killing Middle Class

Lanier: Silicon Valley Making the “Stupid Choice” This piece by NYT columnist Joe Nocera on his read of Jaron Lanier’s book Who Owns the Future is thought-provoking and worth serious consideration by policy makers in the government especially, if only because colossal Silicon Valley greed blinds technology companies to the economic destruction their technology is …

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2014/01/052014/01/05

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.2

Bank of America employs 20 full-time social media spies, watches anarchists and occupy protesters Children’s Book, Death is Wrong Presses Singularity Life Extension Imperative Customs Rules! A federal judge in New York has ruled authorities can seize travellers’ laptops at the border without citing a legal reason, suspecting the traveller of a crime, or explaining …

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2014/01/042014/01/04

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.4

Academics Against Mass Surveillance AL QAEDA: Benghazi Terrorist Sought: Muhammad Jamal AL QAEDA: Bin Laden Alive! (We Do Not Make This Stuff Up!) The fact that the US never gave proof of his death keeps these stories alive. Phi Beta Iota: Bin Laden died in 2001. He was then resurrected (stand-ins) at least three times …

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2014/01/022014/01/02

Neal Rauhauser: Political Populism Emergent – First Occupy Solidarity Network Now Assange and Hacktivists

First Occupy Solidarity Network, Now Assange First we saw Micah White split from Adbusters and announce the creation of the Occupy Solidarity Network, an explicitly political creature with its root in Occupy Wall Street. Now two weeks later Democracy brings us WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance (starting at 31:00 …

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2014/01/02

John Steiner: Edward Snowden, Whistleblower – Embraced by Progressives

Editorial Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower New York Times, 1 January 2013 Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, …

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