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Rickard Falkvinge: Mass Surveillance Fallout — Europe Investigating NSA

Privacy:  This week, the European Parliament voted to immediately suspend the sharing of European financial tracking data with the United States in a 280-254 decision, as well as calling for criminal investigations of the NSA. This follows in the footsteps of mass surveillance revelations that the NSA has illegally hacked into the SWIFT financial data. …

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Jean Lievens: Peer2Politics on P2PValue

Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new and increasingly significant model of social innovation based on collaborative production by citizens through the Internet. Introduction Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new and increasingly significant model of social innovation based on collaborative production by citizens through the Internet. This project will foster the CBPP phenomenon by …

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Berto Jongman: John Naugton on Edward Snowden and Public Indifference About Total Surveillance

Edward Snowden: public indifference is the real enemy in the NSA affair Most people don’t seem to worry that government agencies are collecting their personal data. Is it ignorance or apathy? John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 20 October 2013 Edward Snowden’s revelations exposed a terrifying level of ‘passive acceptance’ of surveillance. Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP One …

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Event: 23-17 OCT 13 Austria & Online, Elevate Open Everything?

Elevate Open Everything? Offshore Leaks has released secret tax haven bank account details, WikiLeaks was responsible for the disclosure of politically explosive classified documents, while Edward Snowden exposed intelligence agencies and private businesses that were spying extensively on respectable citizens. These are all vivid examples of the ambivalence of new technologies. On the one hand …

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SchwartzReport: NSA Has Not Foiled a SINGLE Terrorist Plot + NSA Meta-RECAP

Here is what I believe is a correct assessment concerning the creation of the national security state in which we live today. Absurd amounts of money have been spent, and civil liberties abridged to an unprecedented degree, on the basis of a threat consisting of little gangs. It is transparently disproportionate, there has to be …

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