Archive for the 'Media' Category
123 Meme: Libraries, National Security, Freedom of Information Laws and Social Responsibilities
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Yet another blog meme, courtesy of folks at Chronicles of Dissent (by way of Threat Level). This time I’m supposed to grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3 following sentences. Not sure why, or if someone is going to be patching all these […]
Frontline: Growing Up Online
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I’m sitting in a hotel room in New Haven, trying to finish an article for First Monday, but then I received a call from my wife suggesting I turn on PBS, as Frontline is airing an amazing report on “Growing Up Online.” It is a thoughtful treatment of the topic that, in their words, “takes […]
Google Discloses Blogger’s IP Address (No Subpoena Required)
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007In more chilling news, it has been reported that Google reached a settlement with a group of Israeli council members and will voluntarily turn over the IP address of a blogger accused of slander to a court overseeing the case. From the report:
For more than a year, the anonymous blogger slandered three Shaarei Tikva councilmen: […]
Which ISPs Are Spying on You?
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Wired has posted the results of their survey of the major ISPs regarding their tracking and data retention policies. I’ve created a table summarizing the results:
How long do you retain records of the IP addresses assigned to customers?
Do you store URLs of the websites that people visit?
Do you allow marketers to see anonymized or partially […]
Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007[This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project’s blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz]
This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear on privacy and surveillance studies. After […]
US high-speed Internet is…slow
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Is this the inevitable consequence of privatizing access to the NSFNet backbone? From Press Esc:
The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada, according (PDF) to […]
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