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"How will data retention laws cope with the internet of things?"

Electronic books in IT created under creative commons

It is labor revolt by text message and video upload, underwritten by the Chinese government.

"The Internet affords anonymity to its users, but it is also behind the explosion of cybercrime that has swept across the Web."

"An Army analyst jailed for allegedly leaking a video of a controversial Iraq air strike also allegedly leaked classified information about a U.S. investigation into cyberattacks on Google that originated in China"

Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a wide variety of reasons: journalists and bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers, corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary citizens. (Note: sometimes ITGS students need to be able to access sites that are sometimes blocked)

"Image File Formats - TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF Which to use?"

Image File Formats - TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF Which to use?

"In Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the (capital of Ghana, adults and children tear away at computers from abroad (to get at the precious metals inside. Left, David Akore, 18, and other foragers."