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Tamsin Lloyd

It's Time to Tell Mum | EFA - 0 views

www.efa.org.au/...its-time-to-tell-mum

filter; censorship; campaign; governance australia Internet governance

shared by Tamsin Lloyd on 01 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Tamsin Lloyd on 01 Jun 10
     
    "One of the big challenges in the debate so far has been combating the myth that the filter is - or ever was - a cyber-safety tool designed to keep kids safe online. It's not. It's designed to "harmonise" censorship laws, not protect children from inappropriate content. It's censorship for its own sake." This is interesting as EFF Australia are running a campaign to educate people not normally involved in debates around the internet - indeed, the campaign targets people who may be inclined to suport the idea of a filter: mums and dads.
John Band

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/music/from-cee-lo-green-to-pink-speaking-the-uns... - 0 views

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," the Internet-freedom activist [and EFF colleague of JP Barlow] John Gilmore famously said in 1996". Relevance to the rest of the arti...

censorship privacy EFF

started by John Band on 16 Mar 11 no follow-up yet
Sandra Rivera

Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1 views

www.eff.org/...facebook-timeline

facebook privacy #ARIN6902

shared by Sandra Rivera on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 30 Apr 10
     
    Over the years, Facebook has changed its privacy policy, increasingly restricting  the control that users have of their own privacy.
Sandra Rivera

Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...facebook-becomes-web

facebook #ARIN6902 privacy google open code

shared by Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • With a few deft maneuvers, Facebook is aiming to make itself the center of the internet, the central repository and publisher of what users like and do online.
  • Facebook’s main lever to get all this data funneled to them is a simple “I Like” button, which websites can embed on their pages with very little effort.
  • Facebook built much of this easy-to-use system on “open” standards, as WebMonkey’s Michael Calore reports, even as it sucks the data into a closed community. But those standards are used almost exclusively by Facebook, and ignore the work that’s been done by others to create universally understandable meta-data
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  • You can opt out of some of this through Facebook’s increasingly arcane privacy settings, though most won’t do anything to stop Facebook’s relentless push to make people’s profiles public.
  • Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10
     
    Are we using facebook or is facebook using us?
César Albarrán Torres

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twitter Critics | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...twitter-subpoena

general attorney pennsylvania Internet governance governance internet #ARIN6902 privacy

shared by César Albarrán Torres on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • An anonymous blogger critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett plans to challenge a grand jury subpoena ordering Twitter to reveal the blogger’s identity.
  • The bloggers received an e-mail from Twitter on Tuesday evening saying the micro-blogging service would respond to the subpoena (.pdf) in a week “unless we receive notice from you that a motion to quash the subpoena has been filed or that this matter has been otherwise resolved.”
  • In August, however, Google unmasked the operator of the “Skanks in NYC” blog after being subpoenaed by an Australian model who claimed the site defamed her. And on Monday, a federal judge prevented Yahoo from revealing the identity of a message-board poster critical of USA Technologies.
  • M M on 21 May 10
     
    Twitter users have been issued subpoenas from Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett due to the critical comments they've made about the politician. It's interesting how much anonymous comments can make an impact on a public figure's reputation that it forces him to take legal action.  
  • César Albarrán Torres on 23 May 10
     
    Twitter receives a grand jury subpoena forcing the company to reveal a user's identity. Interesting how this can be done when the stakes are high, when there is a a political subtext under it. Could this set a precedent for defamation cases?
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