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BBC News - UK firms 'fall behind' on data security spending plans - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11316829

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  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
  • activities on Facebook and other social networking sites
  • 32% of UK organisations has installed, compared with 60% of companies globally
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  • "Lack of focus on social networking can expose organisations to a variety of risks, including loss or leakage of information, damage to a company's reputation, illegal downloading of printed material, and identity theft,"
  • The Zhan on 27 Mar 11
     
    An account to the dangers of not monitoring employer's activity online, and statistics regarding companies in the UK.
The Zhan

Dying cheques mark changing times - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7850945.stm

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  • However now they are used for things like paying tradespeople, or by parents paying for children's school meals or trips.
  • As well as electronic transfer of funds on the internet, the most likely replacement for the cheque is mobile payments. A phone number acts as a proxy for a bank account number.
  • When new technology affects banking services, consumers are naturally concerned about security.
The Zhan

Data Mining: What is Data Mining? - 1 views

www.anderson.ucla.edu/...datamining.htm

7.15_case_study_2015

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  • The Zhan on 28 Jan 11
     
    A description of the mechanics of data mining.
The Zhan

Data Mining - 1 views

www.laits.utexas.edu/...Alex

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  • The Zhan on 28 Jan 11
     
    The mechanics of data mining.
The Zhan

World Internet Usage Statistics - 1 views

www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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  • The Zhan on 13 Dec 10
     
    Statistics on global population vs internet users
The Zhan

Freedom of information vital for promoting cultural diversity - 1 views

www.un.org/...story.asp

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  • “Free speech and media freedom are an inseparable part of the United Nations’ mission for peace, human development and a better world,” Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka told a global seminar on linguistic diversity, globalization and development in Alexandria, Egypt, on Sunday.
  • “But around the world, we see Governments and those who wield power use many different ways to obstruct it. The Internet and digital media are becoming a new battleground for information.”
  • He cited the impressive pace of innovation and growth in new information and communications technologies (ICTs): by the end of 2010, there will be an estimated 5.3 billion mobile cell phone users; access to mobile networks is now available to 90 per cent of the world population and 80 per cent of people living in rural areas. Moreover, the total number of text messages sent globally has tripled in the past three years, from 1.8 trillion to a staggering 6.1 trillion, that is 200,000 text messages sent every second, and the number of Internet users has doubled between 2005 and 2010, when it will surpass the 2 billion mark, of which 1.2 billion will be in developing countries.
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  • But the digital divide remains, he warned, with 71 per cent of the population of developed countries online, compared to only 21 per cent in developing countries, and by the end of this year, Internet users in Africa will reach 9.6 per cent, far behind the world average of 30 per cent. For millions of people in poorer countries, downloading a high-quality movie can take one-and-a-half days compared to five minutes somewhere else.
  • All this increased connectivity and the role media and institutions can play in protecting and promoting cultural and linguistic diversity and ensuring its use for the greater good require two elements, Mr. Akasaka stressed.
  • “First, is the need to find ways to provide information to all people,” he said. “And second, is the need to ensure that the information that is conveyed – the substance – is diverse, pluralistic, and tolerant. Member States, the private sector, UNESCO and the United Nations are all working to bring information and communication assets and services to communities around the world.
  • The Zhan on 13 Dec 10
     
    Statements of a UN official stressing the importance of the freedom of information for globalisation.
The Zhan

Globalization and the Internet - Probe Ministries - 0 views

www.probe.org/...alization_and_the_Internet.htm

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  • The Internet has provided an opportunity to build a global information infrastructure that would link together the world's telecommunications and computer networks. But futurists and governmental leaders also believed that this interconnectedness would also bring friendship and cooperation, and that goal seems elusive.
  • Maybe peace and harmony are just over the horizon because of the Internet, but I have my doubts. The information superhighway certainly has connected the world together into one large global network, but highways don't bring peace. Highways connected the various countries in Europe for centuries, yet war was common and peace was not. An information superhighway connects us with countries all over the world, but global cooperation hasn't been the result, at least not yet
  • The information superhighway also has some dark back alleys. At the top of the list is pornography. The Internet has made the distribution of pornography much easier. It used to be that someone wanting to view this material had to leave their home and go to the other side of town. The Internet has become the ultimate brown wrapper. Hard core images that used to be difficult to obtain are now only a mouse click away. Children see pornography at a much younger age than just a decade ago. The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is eleven years old.{3} Sometimes this exposure is intentional, usually it is accidental. Schools, libraries, and homes using filters often are one step behind those trying to expose more and more people to pornography.
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  • All of these concerns lead to the obvious question: Who will regulate the Internet? In the early day of the Internet, proponents saw it as the cyber-frontier that would be self-regulating. The Internet was to liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. One writer said we should "look without illusion upon the present possibilities for building, in the on-line spaces of this world, societies more decent and free than those mapped onto dirt and concrete and capital."
  • Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, in their book, Who Controls the Internet?, describe the various ways foreign governments have exercised their authority.{6} • France requires Yahoo to block Internet surfers from France so they cannot purchase Nazi memorabilia.{7} • The People's Republic of China requires Yahoo to filter materials that might be harmful or threatening to Party rule. Yahoo is essentially an Internet censor for the Communist party.{8} • The Chinese version of Google is much slower than the American version because the company cooperates with the Chinese government by blocking search words the Party finds offensive (words like Tibet or democracy). Even more disturbing is the revelation that Yahoo provided information to the Chinese government that led to the imprisonment of Chinese journalists and pro-democracy leaders. Reporters Without Borders found that Yahoo has been implicated in the cases of most of the people they were defending.
  • All of this censorship and cooperation with foreign governments is disturbing, but it also underscores an important point. For years, proponents of the Internet have argued that we can't (or shouldn't) block Internet pornography or that we can't regulate what pedophiles do on the Internet. These recent revelations about Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft show that they can and do block information.
  • In previous articles we have addressed the issue of globalization and have recognized that technology (including the Internet) has made it much easier to move information around the world. There is no doubt that the Internet has accelerated the speed of transmission and thus made the world smaller. It is much easier for people around the world to access information and share it with others in this global information infrastructure
  • it diminishes the relevance of borders, territorial governments, and geography. Thomas Friedman believes that the Internet and other technologies are flattening the world "without regard to geography, distance, or, in the near future, even language."
  • There is still a legitimate function for government (Romans 13:1-7) even in this new world of cyberspace. Contrary to the perceived assumption that the Internet will shape governments and move us quickly toward globalization, there is good evidence to suggest that governments will in many ways shape the Internet.
  • The Zhan on 13 Dec 10
     
    An explanation on the implications of the information highways internet provides, censorship and governments.
The Zhan

"Collateral Murder" | a look inside - 0 views

blog.ajmartinez.com/...wikileaks-collateral-murder

wikileaks; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 2.6_pol_gov; 1.4_Intellectual_Property

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  • The Zhan on 26 Nov 10
     
    counter-argument for collateral murder video. allegation of biasing and editing of the video footage.
The Zhan

Obama Turns Down Rumors On Afghanistan, Blasts WikiLeaks - 1 views

obama.net/n-afghanistan-blasts-wikileaks

wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 2.6_pol_gov

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  • The President of the United States of America Barack Obama is expressing some of his unfavorable opinions on a website claiming to have secret information about American government policies that are kept from the masses.
  • Tuesday, Obama clearly stated that he is highly “concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information” having to do with the goals and policies of the United States in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks
  • according to Obama as well as anyone who has taken a look at the claims, there is very little new information being represented on the site.
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  • “While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan.
  • In addition, the alleged secret information being leaked by site such as WikiLeaks is information that has already been made public to the men and women of the United States to read about at their discretion.
The Zhan

Wikileaks, causes for concern « Aletho News - 0 views

alethonews.wordpress.com/...wikileaks-causes-for-concern

wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 1.3_privacy_anonymity; 1.2_security; 1.11_people_machines

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  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    Brief description of social and ethical concerns wikileaks raises.
The Zhan

WikiLeaks, a Ramayan tale - 1 views

www.livemint.com/...WikiLeaks-a-Ramayan-tale.html

wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 2.6_pol_gov

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  • The traditional way of gathering news and reporting a story by finding out facts, interpreting them, asking others for corroboration, and organizing the story in a coherent way so that it would make sense and provide context to someone coming across the issue for the first time, were considered quaint
  • n the West, several newspapers had shrunk in size, literally, adopting the Berliner format, as The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal’s international editions did.
  • t was in that environment that WikiLeaks published the omnibus data dump of 92,000 pages of intelligence material about the war in Afghanistan, leaked from the US defence establishment. Finally the middleman was busted: Who needed reporters, those irrelevant intermediaries?
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  • WikiLeaks realized that the mountain of data was meaningless unless someone sifted through the data dispassionately to find out if there was a grand narrative.
  • Raw data alone is often inscrutable, and in the hands of conspiracy nuts, it is worse than useless.
  • Text without context is just words.
  • That explains why WikiLeaks turned to The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
  • WikiLeaks’s decontextualized data dump has created the illusion of advancing our understanding of the war, when it has done no such thing. It has made the coalition’s informants vulnerable— responsible reporters would not have made such an elementary error.
  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    An article referring to the extreme decontextualisation and reliability issues of sources presented in WikiLeaks.
The Zhan

NGO brands WikiLeaks whistleblowing unreliable - 2 views

www.swisster.ch/...whistleblowing-unreliable.html

1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.1_reliability_integrity 2.6_pol_gov wikileaks

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  • the Swiss branch of Transparency International, an NGO campaigning for more openness and better governance, claims the site is not reliabl
  • "I know other platforms for transparency use it a lot . . . but it’s not based on fact," Anne Schwöbel, director of Transparency International Switzerland told Swisster. "WikiLeaks is not enough for us – we need other sources," said Schwöbel.
  • The Sunshine Press sees its site as a public tool to advance transparency beyond existing freedom of information legislation.
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  • Government officials, corporate whistleblowers and journalists seeking anonymity can upload documents that sit in a queue waiting for a team of professional journalists and anti-corruption analysts to decide whether they should be published. Schwöbel said she could not find out enough about selection criteria used by the editoral board of powerful decision makers.
  • The Zhan on 19 Nov 10
     
    Campaigning group Transparency International Switzerland claims WikiLeaks is not reliable.
The Zhan

BBC News - Oil leak's spread predicted by simulation - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/10492086

3.8_modelling_simulations 2.3_modeling_simulations

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  • To create the dramatic video, the scientists modelled what would happen if they were to release a coloured tracer dye into the water at the site of the leak.
  • The virtual dye then shows the path that the water - and therefore the oil - could take.
  • he researchers repeated the experiment several times, using slightly different scenarios, to arrive at a likely spread pattern for the oil.
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  • There are still some aspects to the Gulf of Mexico leak, and the behaviour of oil released at great depth, which are not fully understood.
  • The Zhan on 17 Nov 10
     
    Detailed simulations of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak show that crude is likely to start spreading into the Atlantic Ocean soon.
The Zhan

Are the WikiLeaks War Docs Overhyped Old News? | Danger Room | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ks-war-docs-overhyped-old-news

2.6_pol_gov 1.4_Intellectual_Property

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  • Longtime Afghanistan watchers are diving into Wikileaks’ huge trove of unearthed U.S. military reports about the war.
  • For one thing — and this supports Exum’s argument — many, if not most, of these documents are frontline reports.
  • And some of the heavy-breathing accounts surrounding the documents don’t really match what the logs say. “Taliban sympathisers listening in to top-secret phone calls of US-led coalition,” pants the Guardian.
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  • That both clarifies the focus of individual reports and limits the degree to which any analyst can responsibly extrapolate them into clear trends.
  • here’s a bias in journalism toward believing that what’s secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth. That operating principle animates reporters’ practice of breaking down governmental secrecy. But it can also create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations.
  • Whether they add up to more than the sum of their parts is a judgment.
  • The Zhan on 17 Nov 10
     
    There's a bias in journalism toward believing that what's secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth,which can create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations. When these don't manifest, it creates an expectation that the trove is neither useful nor significant. In this case, that would be a mistake.
The Zhan

YouTube - Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

2.6_pol_gov 1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.9_policies wikileaks

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  • The Zhan on 15 Nov 10
     
    To what extent does media and governments distort information that is presented to the general audience, taking into consideration the concealing of an extremely sensitive piece of information such as this?\n\nWhat degree of obscurantism does the US army's "don't ask, don't tell" policy imply? How much misunderstanding can it provoke?\n\nHow reliable is the information provided to us by Wikileaks?
The Zhan

BBC News | Whiteboard projector safety fears - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/6253410.stm

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  • Interactive whiteboards have been heralded as devices that will enhance education and be a major plank in the government's drive for new technology in schools. But the BBC has learnt that while millions of pounds have been spent on them, very little attention has been paid to a potential threat to the eyesight of teachers and children.
  • Documents from the Health and Safety Executive, obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, say users "should make sure that direct beam viewing of the optical output from this equipment is both controlled and restricted to no more than a few tens of seconds at a time".
  • A straw poll of teaching representatives in Wiltshire shows only a small number have been told how to use whiteboards safely
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  • "It's very difficult to avoid the beam because if you are standing in front and demonstrating a point to the class you immediately want to turn round to know that they are aware of what you are saying, rather than ducking out of the beam. You want to stay there and face the class."
  • 250,000 whiteboards in the UK used on a daily basis
  • The Zhan on 28 Sep 10
     
    Interactive whiteboards have been heralded as devices that will enhance education and be a major plank in the government's drive for new technology in schools. But the BBC has learnt that while millions of pounds have been spent on them, very little attention has been paid to a potential threat to the eyesight of teachers and children
The Zhan

Email still the top source of data loss - 0 views

www.net-security.org/secworld.php

1.1_reliability_integrity

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  • more than a third
  • social media channels
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  • impacted by the improper exposure or theft of customer information
  • improper exposure or theft of intellectual property
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