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Jiamin Lin

Air travellers on 'naked' scanners - 3 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8303982.stm Latest security scanner that produces "naked" image of air travelers is now being tested at Manchester Airport. Air travelers no longer have to rem...

privacy security

started by Jiamin Lin on 14 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Meenatchi

US Navy creates command to maintain cyber supremacy - 3 views

Article Summary: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091002/pl_afp/usitmilitaryintelligencesecurityinternet_20091002130920 The article talks about the US Navy's announcement about it consolidating inte...

rights democracy Ethics surveillance

started by Meenatchi on 16 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Jody Poh

Asia's attitude to assisted suicide - 3 views

euthanasia ethics rights

started by Jody Poh on 20 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
guanyou chen

How to Build A Dinosaur - 3 views

Dinosaurs ethics genetic engineering chicken

started by guanyou chen on 22 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Jody Poh

Powering our way out of poverty - 3 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8046112.stm Only the first part of the article before "Cheap and Continuous" is relevant. Although the whole article is about saving the environment, it h...

social progress technology ethics justice

started by Jody Poh on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
lo sokwan

China Web Sites Seeking Users' Names - 2 views

started by lo sokwan on 12 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
joanne ye

Measuring the effectiveness of online activism - 2 views

Reference: Krishnan, S. (2009, June 21). Measuring the effectiveness of online activism. The Hindu. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from Factiva. (Article can be found at bottom of the post) Summary...

online activism freedom control

started by joanne ye on 24 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

Complicit subversions: Cultural new media activism and 'high' theory. - 2 views

firstmonday.org/...2032

new media activism

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  • Weiye Loh on 30 Sep 09
     
    Written by Dr Ingrid. The article discusses how new media activism increasingly disenfranchises the (s)lower class. =)
Meenatchi

Did ACORN get too big for its own good? - 2 views

online digital activism defamation

started by Meenatchi on 01 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
mingli chng

crowdsourcing=internet sweat shop labour - 2 views

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/10/12/crowdsourcing-the-neue-sweatshop-labor/ The author's view is that crowdsourcing is actually just another form of exploitation from private companies, just tha...

started by mingli chng on 12 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Jun Jie Tan

When and what to fire will be part of hardware and software 'package' - 2 views

AI

started by Jun Jie Tan on 14 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Olivia Chang

Cyber Warfare should not be prioritized - 2 views

URL: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/10/rand_us_should.html;jsessionid=SMFM5O2F4DCNBQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN The article talks about the common cyber warfare tools: denia...

cyberwar

started by Olivia Chang on 14 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Low Yunying

New technologies of war - 2 views

war new technologies

started by Low Yunying on 15 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
lo sokwan

Designer babies - 2 views

today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx

shared by lo sokwan on 22 Oct 09 - Cached
  • lo sokwan on 22 Oct 09
     
    This website includes a video of an interview with a practical ethicist and Professor from Oxford University. I think his pro-designer babies view is relevant to what we discussed in class today. I feel strongly about giving the best possible things to my future child. As according to Professor Savulescu, if "Using IVF would give children the greatest choices and opportunities in life," would it be ethical to proceed with such technologies.. No?
Paul Melissa

Designer Babies? - 2 views

www.cbsnews.com/...main4840346.shtml

Technology Future

shared by Paul Melissa on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Paul Melissa on 28 Oct 09
     
    On the Early Show, viewers were asked if designer babies were ethical. Medical specialists have predicted that in 10-20 years time, designer babies will be more wide-spread. On one hand, this is a private domestic choice of individuals and parents. However, is it not performing plastic surgery on a child disregarding her/his choice and opinion even before they are born?
joanne ye

Nanotechnology and Space - 2 views

nanotechnology outer space

started by joanne ye on 06 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

Google Chrome OS: Ditch Your Hard Drives, the Future Is the Web | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 2 views

www.wired.com/...d-drives-the-future-is-the-web

Google Privacy

shared by Weiye Loh on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
  • t will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, Chrome OS is only shipping on specific hardware from manufacturers Google has partnered with. That means if you want Chrome OS, you’ll have to purchase a Chrome OS device.
  • Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives — they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and internet-based storage for saving all of your data.
    • Weiye Loh
      Weiye Loh on 20 Nov 09
       
      So who's going to own my data? me? or Google? is it going to be secure? what happens when there's a breach of privacy? Do i have to sign a disclaimer before  I use it? hmm. 
    • Jun Jie Tan
      Jun Jie Tan on 23 Nov 09
       
      on the internet, google owns you
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • All the applications will be web-based, meaning users won’t have to install apps, manage updates or even backup their data. All data will be stored in the cloud, and users won’t even have to bother with anti-virus software: Google claims it will monitor code to prevent malicious activity in Chrome OS web apps.
  • Weiye Loh on 20 Nov 09
     
    Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives - they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and internet-based storage for saving all of your data.
Weiman Kow

Think you're a good employee? Office snooping software can tell - CNN.com - 1 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

office surveillance

shared by Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • More than that, Killock believes using such software can have a negative psychological impact on a workplace. "It is a powerful signal that you do not fully trust the people you are paying or perhaps don't invest the time and care to properly manage them," he says.
    • Weiman Kow
      Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
       
      the presentation group brought up this point.. =)
  • Ultimately, true privacy only begins outside the workplace -- and the law supports that. In the United States, at least all email and other electronic content created on the employer's equipment belongs to the employer, not the employee. Slackers would do well to remember that.
  • But Charnock is keen to stress Cataphora isn't only about bosses spying on their team -- it works both ways.
    • Weiman Kow
      Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
       
      Is that really true?
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  • Our software builds a multi-dimensional model of normal behavior,
  • the emails they send, the calls they make and the documents they write.
  • [We can tell] who is really being consulted by other employees, and on which topics; who is really making decisions
  • The software began as a tool to assist lawyers with the huge corporate databases often subpoenaed as evidence in trials but has now moved into human resources.
  • We do have extensive filters to try to weed out people who are highly productive in areas such as sports banter and knowledge of local bars,
  • Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
     
    Just a link on advances in extensive office surveillance - this program is supposed to "separate the good employees from the bad by analyzing workers 'electronic footprints' -- the emails they send, the calls they make and the documents they write"
Jody Poh

UK lags in broadband quality - 1 views

divide digital

started by Jody Poh on 06 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
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