The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood the absolute threat to journalism implicit in the idea of total surveillance, when or if it comes – and, increasingly, it looks like “when”.
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Moving Sidewalk at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris (par Gizmodo)
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Facebook a commencé à tester, “à très petite échelle”, un système permettant à ses membres de payer pour des achats depuis leur appareil mobile en utilisant leur compte sur le réseau social en ligne. En s’identifiant, les intéressés n’auront plus besoin d’entrer leurs coordonnées bancaires, car l’application récupérera automatiquement les numéros de carte de paiement ou de compte PayPal qu’ils ont fournis par le passé au réseau.
A couple of crooks decided that Apple’s iPad was prime to pull a Royal Mail compensations claim. The plan: Send ice in a packet, insure it as an iPad.
« London’s ‘smart bins’ are tracking passerbys by identifying their smartphones’ wi-fi connections. First reported by Siraj Datoo for Quartz, the scheme is currently being trialled around Cheapside, with the intention is sell this information to brands to create targeted advertisements. However, with the technology in its infancy there are still unanswered questions over the legality of the scheme ». (via London’s bins are tracking your smartphone – News – Gadgets & Tech – The Independent)
« While restaurant reviews and ratings might be a good indication of whether you should visit a particular establishment, sometimes there are patrons to restaurants who would rather tweet their experience rather than write a review on Yelp or Foursquare, and if you’ve always wanted to know which restaurants to avoid if you want to save yourself a trip to the doctor’s following a bout of food poisoning, the nEmesis system could be something worth taking a look into ». (via Researchers Use Tweets To Map Out Restaurants That Could Give You Food Poisoning | Ubergizmo)
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on—the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.