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Urška Cerar

Apple blocks emails containing phrase 'barely legal teen' from iCloud in new 'anti-porn... - 0 views

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apple teen iCloud pornography

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  • Apple is deleting all emails on its iCloud service that contain the phrase 'barely legal teen,
  • He's a barely legal teenage driver
  • He's barely a legal teenage driver
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  • only the second one got through.
  • The phrase 'barely legal teen' is used in pornographic searches
  • some would consider the phrase to have a strong association with paedophilia
  • Though Apple has no legal obligation to block the phrase 'barely legal teen', its terms of service state that it has every right to do so.
  • Occasionally, automated spam filters may incorrectly block legitimate email
  • The iBookstore rejected an e-book submission on the hippie movement because it contained photographs of naked people.
  • People do not have to use Apple's iCloud service
sintija

BBC News - Viewpoint: The universal web must be adaptive - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-21371651

bbc web internet

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  • Access all areas
  • Along came search technologies
  • Viewpoint: The universal web must be adaptive
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  • Viewpoint: The universal web must be adaptive
  • Along came search technologies
  • Google
  • Google
  • ability to search content anywhere on the web
  • new web business.
  • spurred a new web business
  • Access all areas
  • internet went wireless
  • We need standards
  • mobile devices will outsell laptops
  • increasing the complexity of how content was served
  • Building websites for all the new browsers, screen sizes and device features is becoming difficult.
  • The future of the internet is creating highly adaptive experiences for users
  • Companies that don't figure out how to get their information to customers on any device will disappear.
  • one solution
  • such as HTML5, to make programming to any device use the same language, and software solutions to help companies simplify building websites and web apps to any device using any feature.
  • truly mobile internet future is now a reality
  • companies need to
  • focus
  • on their customer journeys, personalised experiences and developing rich content rather than on how to build websites - or they will disappear.
Urška Cerar

What Does Google Do If the Government Comes Looking for Your Emails? - Rebecca J. Rosen... - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...272591

google law enforcement request

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  • Every single day, dozens of requests from law-enforcement officials, courts, and other government agencies pour into Google's offices, requesting that Google hand over different pieces of information its users have amassed
  • many of these requests are legitimate
  • It's important for law enforcement agencies to pursue illegal activity and keep the public safe.
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  • Google says, "When we receive such a request, our team reviews the request to make sure it satisfies legal requirements and Google's policies.
  • once a request has been deemed valid, Google will notify users when possible.
  • Google will not provide a user's search-query information or the contents of a user's account (email content, pictures, documents, etc.) without a warrant.
  • Google has advocated for updating ECPA, "so the same protections that apply to your personal documents that you keep in your home also apply to your email and online documents."
  • If Google can establish clear practices now that somehow balance the competing needs of law-enforcement agencies and private users, that effort will pay off
Urška Cerar

BBC News - Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-21601609

court piracy illegal music

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  • Opponents have argued that blocking sites in this way was ineffective.
  • Data seen by the BBC suggested that the blocking of The Pirate Bay had only had a short-term effect on the level of pirate activity online
  • there had been a large reduction in the number of users illegally downloading music
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  • Blocking illegal sites helps ensure that the legal digital market can grow and labels can continue to sign and develop new talent.
  • The UK has now handed the power over what we see on the internet to corporate lobbyists
Jan Keček

Cyber-security: To the barricades | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...heir-cyber-defences-barricades

ipraktikum internet cyber- attacks

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  • European Commission and the White House have set out a series of new rules designed to stem the rising tide of cyber-attacks against public and private victims.
  • Alongside his state-of-the-union message on February 11th, Barack Obama released an executive order intended to plug the gap left by the failure of Congress to pass cyber-security legislation that matches the growing threat.
  • By contrast, the European Commission’s cyber-security strategy is at an earlier stage. It wants member countries to introduce laws compelling important firms in industries such as transport, telecoms, finance and online infrastructure to disclose details of any attack they suffer to a national authority, known as a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). Each CERT will be responsible for defending vital infrastructure-providers against online attacks and sharing information with its counterparts, law-enforcement agencies and data-protection bodies.
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  • What neither the European nor American measures deal with directly is the shortage of cyber-security specialists. A gloomy review of the British government’s strategy by the National Audit Office, a spending watchdog, said the skills gap could take 20 years to bridge.
Jan Keček

Smartphone operating systems: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...s-bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed

smartphone ipraktikum internet networking

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  • IF YOU have a new smartphone, it is almost certainly either an Apple iPhone or one of the many devices that runs on Google’s Android operating system. According to IDC, a research firm, more than 90% of the 228m smartphones shipped in the last quarter of 2012 belonged to one of the two dominant species. Android is the bigger bea
  • st. Its share has grown as the smartphone market has boomed, to about 70%.
  • Mozilla, a non-profit organisation best known for Firefox, a web browser, unveiled plans to bring a smartphone operating system to market. Called Firefox OS, it has the backing of 18 mobile operators based in countries from Asia to Latin America.
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  • Most Windows smartphones are made by Finland’s Nokia, which dropped its own plans for a new system when it threw in its lot with the American software giant. BlackBerry, a Canadian company formerly called Research In Motion, hopes to recover lost glories with BlackBerry 10, which appeared in January after much delay.
  • One reason for the challengers’ optimism is that a lot of ground is unoccupied.
  • BlackBerry and Microsoft have the advantage of familiarity; 80m people use BlackBerrys. Companies’ information-technology departments trust them as secure. Microsoft hopes that Windows’ dominance of personal computers can be transferred to mobiles. With that in mind, all new Windows devices, on desks, on laps or in hands, have the same look, with “tiles” for touching, not clicking.
  • Whereas most applications on Apple and Android devices have been written for those systems, Firefox OS uses open standards. In principle, apps based on it can run on any device connected to the web.
Patricija Čelik

Internet pornography: safety plans do not go far enough - charities - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...t-go-far-enough-charities.html

internet safety

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  • The Government yesterday launched a consultation on a possible change in the law to give parents more control over the material their children are viewing online.
  • Internet service providers have been in talks with the Government about ways of enabling parents to block sites containing sexually or gambling as well as forums glorify suicide and self-harm.
  • a report by MPs who called for a full “opt-in” which would automatically block adult material unless the user chose to deactivate it. Google has argued that an automatic block as a “mistake”, while Virgin Media, BT, TalkTalk and Sky have developed versions of the “active choice” system which makes users chose whether they want parental controls when they sign up, rather than imposing them automatically.
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  • Claire Walker, head of policy, at the charity Family Lives, which this week published a hard hitting report on online dangers, said parents would be more secure with an automatic block.
Meta Arcon

On Facebook, Sharing Can Come at a Cost - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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facebook sharing cost

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  • Facebook said in a statement that “the median amount of feedback on posts (likes, comments, shares) from people who have more than 10,000 subscribers is up 34 percent from a year ago.”
Mirna Čorak

BBC - Future - Technology - YouTube: The cult of web video - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...20121221-the-cult-of-web-video

youtube web video

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  • With 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, almost every moment of modern history is a cult waiting to happen. And it is becoming big business.
  • The billion dollar question is how: how to make your video “go viral”, spreading your particular slice of contemporary culture across the planet like a contagion.
  • Silliness is more important – but not vital, given that both the Kony documentary and the jump from space are entirely serious.
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  • Similarly, although sex may remain the most powerful form of advertising, it barely features within this list. Visual excitement won’t do either, given that the year’s second-biggest hit features a single camera pointed at five people and a guitar.
  • irality isn’t actually a property of these videos at all. It’s a property of their audience: a description not of a particular object, but of the ways in which that object is used.
  • To pass on a video or link is to become an evangelist for an instant cult: to gain the status of an initiate, complete with social capital and mutual LOLs. Unlike a biological virus, which hijacks hapless cells no matter what their owners might want, these are infections you must decide to pass on.
ninicka17

Google's Monopoly on the News | The Nation - 0 views

www.thenation.com/...googles-monopoly-news

Facebook google monopoly news

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ninicka17

Machine-Made News | The Nation - 0 views

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news nation internet Facebook

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ninicka17

Quitters Never Win: The Costs of Leaving Social Media - Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Seling... - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...273139

social media privacy

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    "Quitters Never Win: The Costs of Leaving Social Media"
Mirna Čorak

The Perils of Perfection - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-perils-of-perfection.html

apps facebook twitter privacy

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  • LivesOn, a soon-to-launch service that promises to tweet on your behalf even after you die. By analyzing your earlier tweets
  • Seesaw, the app lets you run instant polls of your friends and ask for advice on anything: what wedding dress to buy, what latte drink to order and soon, perhaps, what political candidate to support.
  • Take Google Glass, the company’s overhyped “smart glasses,” which can automatically snap photos of everything we see and store them for posterity.
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  • Jim Gemmell, “Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything.”
  • All these efforts to ease the torments of existence might sound like paradise to Silicon Valley. But for the rest of us, they will be hell.
  • SUCH predisposition makes it harder to notice that not all problems are problems
  • After all, saving the world might be a price worth paying for destroying everyone’s privacy, while a larger-than-life mission might convince young and idealistic employees that they are not wasting their lives tricking gullible consumers to click on ads for pointless products.
Mirna Čorak

BBC - Future - Technology - The internet's weakest links - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...14-the-internets-weakest-links

ISPs risk internet

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  • How many phone calls does it take to kill the internet?
  • They found resilience has little to do with the presence or absence of jackbooted thugs: Belarus is at "significant risk" of internet disconnection, while China – which blacked out the entire province of Xinjiang for ten months in 2009 and 2010 – is rated at "low risk".
  • Even sophisticated, highly networked countries can be at risk of a blackout if their digital frontier has a paucity of global connections. "Iran is a good example of this," says Cowie.
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  • One advantage in using frontier ISPs as a proxy for internet resilience is that it cuts through any biases from news reports about blackouts in developing world nations
donnamariee

Technology and productivity: The hollow promise of the iEconomy | The Economist - 0 views

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tech ieconomy

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  • Apple is the most creative, innovative and envied technology company of our time,
  • spring of 2000,
  • Cisco and its ilk as the internet transformed the economy.
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  • If fact there is little sign in the data that machines are displacing humans any faster than usual
  • Perhaps because of uncertainty, though that’s a poor explanation for a phenomenon occurring globally.
  • How to put a price on the contribution of Facebook or Twitter to the Arab spring?
  • IN THE battle between David Einhorn and Apple over the latter's $137 billion cash hoard lies a deeper lesson about the outlook for the economy. Mr Einhorn, an activist investor, says Apple clings to its money out of a “Depression mentality”. Perhaps. But the more mundane explanation is that Apple, like many of the world's big companies today, is generating more cash from its existing product line than it can usefully plough back into new projects.
  • Today, we all know Apple’s products, and a lot of us own one. Yet it is hard to identify the impact they or any of today's social-media giants have had on productivity. I was at first delighted with the convenience and freedom to read documents, check Twitter and search the web on the iPad mini I got in December, but it occurred to me recently that this was at best an incremental improvement over doing it on my BlackBerry or laptop. It also provides me with many more ways to waste time. As Tom Toles, the Washington Post’s cartoonist, puts it:
  • No doubt some of those YouTube videos were being watched over Apple products. Not that I blame Apple for Penney’s culture (after all, Google owns YouTube), but it is a reminder that the social-media revolution has been a mixed blessing. Yahoo at one time stood atop the Internet but the ability of its workers to do their job from anywhere may be backfiring on productivity
  • are genuine benefits of social media and the related hardware. In its first few decades the computer/internet revolution re-engineered business processes, enabling companies to interact with each other and customers in more ways at lower cost than ever, producing measurable, bankable results. Now, it’s leading to brand-new consumer products, many of whose  benefits are unmeasured or unmeasurable.
donnamariee

BBC News - O2's Tu Go aims to challenge Skype and other Voip apps - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-21623810

tech skype

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  • O2 has launched an app which lets users make and receive phone calls and texts via a tablet, computer or smartphone. Tu Go is available for Android, Apple's iOS devices and Windows 7 PCs but limited to "pay monthly" subscribers - so excludes corporate accounts.
  • Users can be logged into the service on up to five devices at once - meaning all will ring if they receive a call - including handsets using Sim cards associated with different networks and internet enabled gadgets such as iPods.
  • The effort represents the telecom industry's latest attempt to tackle competition from Skype and other third-party Voip services. These typically do not charge for app-to-app calls, but do require the user to buy credit if they want to call or send a text to a standard mobile or landline number.
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  • But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
  • There are already dozens of Voip apps on the market including lesser-known names such as Tango, Fring, Bria and Zerofone as well as manufacturer's own services including BlackBerry BBM and Apple's Facetime.
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