Noting that "the realities of the world have changed dramatically since the creation of the Air Force in 1947," the US Air Force has released a new mission statement: The mission of the United States Air Force is to deliver…
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Ten (Easy) Ways to Protect Your Privacy
EPIC's Chris Hoofnagle posts his Consumer Privacy Top 10, ten things US consumers can do to safeguard their privacy. I agree with Michael Froomkin that this list stands apart because it suggests actions that are very do-able.1. OPT OUT OF…
Data Retention in Europe
The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.What’s wrong with data retention? The proposal…
MIT Tracks Students’ Movements Via Network Connections
MIT seems to like to experiment with ways of tracking its students. LawMeme reports that MIT has granted students access to information about its network traffic perviously available only to network administrator's. Students can now log in and view the…
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A Luddite at Wired
Wired has launched a new column called "The Luddite", written by Tony Long. To get a sense of his (needed) perspective, here's an excerpt from his first column, "Dark Underbelly of Technology":[...] the reason for this column: to lend a…
Let Wikipedia Write Your Next Paper
According to News.com, Esquire writer AJ Jacobs put a badly written and error ridden article on Wikipedia and let the Wikipedian community have at it. Within days, the article had received hundreds of edits, was cleaned up, proof read and…
Dan Gillmor: eBay Buying Skype: The Privacy Question Grows
Dan Gillmor brings up an interesting privacy concern with the announced purchase of Skype by eBay:It's official, and eBay will now be adding something to its portfolio: customers' presence online. The possibilities are endless. I didn't get this at first,…
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Big Brother 2.0: James McQuivey on the coming Surveillance Society
I recently came across James McQuivey's blog Big Brother 2.0, which seems to be a launch-pad for his forthcoming book: Big Brother 2.0: Why We Should Become a Surveillance Society. His thesis appears to be that the coming "surveillance society"…
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Designing a New Internet with a New Architecture
Wired News reports that David Clark is beginning work (within academia and with the help of the NSF) on a new "clean slate" internet architecture:Clark, who served as chief protocol architect for the government's internet development initiative in the 1980s,…
Wikipedia and Search
John Battelle points to a piece (reg required) by Max Kalehoff noting the striking increase in traffic driven to Wikipedia from search engine queries.A ranking of all Web sites based on the total volume of traffic received directly from search…
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