« The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April ». (via NSA collecting phone records of millions daily, court order reveals | World news | The Guardian)

« Berners-Lee’s paper was rejected (« The hypertext community were unimpressed with the web; it looked rather simple, » CERN’s Dan Noyes explains in a post) but he was offered a table where he could demonstrate his World Wide Web to conference attendees. « Only a couple of catches, » Jones writes. « There was to be no Internet connectivity at the conference. And as Tim’s demonstration required a NeXT computer, he would have to bring his from Europe. » » (via World: We Have Lost the First Webpage. Professor: Oh, I Have a Copy of It Right Here. – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic)

« If signed into law, CISPA will allow the government to collect all sorts of personal data from corporations, without any oversight at all, and will protect corporations from lawsuits based on their handing over that data ». (via Do You Want the Government Buying Your Data From Corporations? – Bruce Schneier – The Atlantic)

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