Posts Written by: davidlindsey
Well, yeah, they seem to be. Read Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation in today’s New York Times. The issue was that Google’s specially equipped Street View camera cars that are busily photographing all the city streets in the world, were caught scooping up “…e-mails, photographs, passwords, chat messages, postings on Web sites and social…Read the Rest of Article
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Wired magazine reports that on Friday, May11, the National Security Agency’s decision not to realease to the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it may or may not have with Google concerning cypersecurity and encryption was upheld by a federal appeals court. The Wired article says that former NSA chief Mike McConnell told the…Read the Rest of Article
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This past week three articles strike me as memorable. I give links to them here if you’d like to look them up. Get Rich U. : There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. This article in the New Yorker is full of fascinating information, but the thing that interested me immediately was toward…Read the Rest of Article
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The UK newspaper The Guardian has just finished a weeklong series titled The New Cold War: The Battle for the Internet. This is a link to the archived series. The Internet is now ubiquitous and essential for all of us. But the American public’s education about important issues surrounding this indispensible tool have lagged behind our acceptance…Read the Rest of Article
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Recently I read two articles that address the ever changing/never changing kaleidoscope of human nature. I think both articles are worth sharing. The first article deals with the quirky confusions of the puzzle that is the adolescent mind. What’s Wrong with the Teenage Mind? , written by Allison Gopnik, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, appeared…Read the Rest of Article
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Below is a brief article published today on the Save the Internet website. The complicated issue of maintaining ”privacy” (digital and otherwise) for individuals while keeping the Internet “open” to free speech is a complex and vitally important consideration. Congress has really been behind the curve on this issue, and any developments toward correcting that, however belated, are welcome. The following…Read the Rest of Article
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This is a website to love…The Sartorialist…watch this great video clip (and enjoy the background music): Lunch for 25.
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The enormously important issue of digital privacy is only now beginning to get the kind of attention that it rightfully deserves. It’s long overdue. One of the people who has been an important voice on this issue is Rebecca MacKinnon, a journalist and activist, founder of Global Voices Online, and a Senior Fellow at the…Read the Rest of Article
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Sunday’s New York Times carried an opinion article about the increased use of armed drones and Presidential war powers…and the decreased influence of Congress regarding both. Peter Singer, Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and author of “Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict of the 21st Century”, considers…Read the Rest of Article
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