While EFF has long had concerns about the ability of multistakeholder groups like GNI to take sufficiently prompt and forthright stances with regard to global privacy, freedom of expression and security concerns, the recent NSA revelations have demonstrated that there is a much deeper problem. It has become clear that affected companies are unable even to talk about secret orders they have received from the US government. We know that the same is true for other governments around the world. Documents publicized in the last few weeks related to NSA surveillance have highlighted just how dramatic government interference with Internet companies’ security practices has been.
As a result, EFF longer no believes we can sign our name onto joint statements that rely on shared knowledge of the secur ity of company products or their internal processes.
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Census 2011 map, London (UK Data Explorer)
An Estonian court had held a local news site, Delfi AS, liable for offensive comments that were posted on a story anonymously. The story in question dates back to 2006, and centered on a ferry firm that had changed its routes thus causing delays to the opening of new ice roads – Delfi was fined $434 in damages. But why was it held responsible for the defamatory comments, and not the commenters themselves? Well, because they were anonymous.
« Web technologies now give us the freedom for imagery to be anything but static. Iconic takes full advantage of modern web standards to allow you to adjust elements within icons dynamically ».
« Just about anybody can make a map and slap it up on the internet these days, and that’s a mixed blessing for professional cartographers ». (via How to Design a Viral Map and Still Respect Yourself in the Morning – Wired Science)
(via Vertty – United States)
Apple is using copyright to try and suppress information that it doesn’t want made public
« Retinal projection requires precise alignment and optical focusing, a major engineering challenge that has pushed other companies toward simpler technologies when creating wearable displays. (Including Google, which considered retinal projection for Glass.) Avegant seems to have solved that problem in two ways: a frame that expands to accommodate different face widths and high-quality optical elements that can be individually adjusted. Where most wearable displays have crude, fixed optics, Avegant’s eyepieces wouldn’t look out of place at an ophthalmologist’s ». (via Avegant Virtual Retinal Display – Wearable tech – CNET Reviews)
Tracking and Managing Group Expenditures
Of those questioned for the survey, 47% (representing around 1.7 million people) said they use a streaming music service such as Spotify. Even more impressively, just over half (corresponding to 920,000 people and 25% of Norwegian Internet users) said that they pay for the premium option. While TV show piracy has reduced by half in four years, it actually peaked at the start of 2011 with 200 million shows copied without permission. However, since then with the introduction of legal alternatives, unauthorized copying is down more than 72%. For movies the decline has been more steady but with the introduction of Netflix into Norway during October last year, figures for 2013 should be even more encouraging. (via Piracy Collapses As Legal Alternatives Do Their Job | TorrentFreak)