At INET San Francisco, the Internet Society and its San Francisco Chapter, in conjunction with CNET, will host a live discussion on cyber surveillance, an issue of great importance in the wake of recent revelations about the U.S. Government’s controversial surveillance programs.

L’instrumentalisation de la lutte contre le sexisme et l’homophobie pour encourager des dispositifs de surveillance et de censure reposant sur des acteurs privés est inacceptable et rappelle les pratiques du gouvernement précédent. Dans un régime démocratique, seule l’autorité judiciaire peut légitimement prononcer des mesures aussi graves que la censure.

Aurélie Filippetti, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, confie une mission à Christian Phéline, suite à la remise du rapport « Acte II de l’exception culturelle à l’ère du numérique »

National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.

Digital worlds are constructed of, by, and for speech; within them, it is increasingly difficult to tell where one form of speech ends and another begins. The Like-as-speech ruling recognizes that. In some ways, it celebrates it. And it also justifies the decisions made by a group of guys those 200-ish years ago. The brilliance of the Bill of Rights is that it is, in its way, very of-the-Internet: Its logic appreciates, implicitly, the power of the network. Its authors acknowledged their own ignorance. They knew they couldn’t anticipate the telegraph or the telephone or the Internet, so they inscribed their protections in a way that would accommodate an unknown future. They could not anticipate Facebook; in another way, though, they totally anticipated Facebook. Which is certainly something to Like.