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by gtdonovan on September 21, 2011 at 11:49 am · Filed under affinity politics, Berlin, cybercity, elections, governance, identity, link, media politics, participation, pirate party, privacy
From the article: “By winning 8.9 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election in [Berlin], these political pirates surpassed — blew away, really — every expectation for what was supposed to be a fringe, one-issue party promoting Internet freedom. The Pirates so outstripped expectations that all 15 candidates on their list won seats … The question that members of Germany’s political establishment are now asking after the insurgent party stormed the statehouse is this: Are the Pirates merely the punch line to a joke, a focus of protest, a reflection of electoral disgust with all established political parties — or an exciting experiment in a new form of online democracy?”
by gtdonovan on September 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm · Filed under COPPA, facial recognition, FTC, geo-privacy, geotag, governance, laws, link, location, pii, privacy, surveillance, youth
From the article: “the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday proposed long-awaited changes to regulations covering online privacy for children … The proposed revisions expand the definition of “personal information” to include a child’s location, along with any personal data collected through the use of cookies for the purposes of targeted advertising. It also covers facial recognition technology.”
by gtdonovan on September 8, 2011 at 12:48 pm · Filed under 9/11, data mining, Database Industry, digitalfootprint, governance, link, privacy, security, surveillance, terrorism, wiretapping
From the article: “U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies now collect, store and analyze vast quantities of digital data produced by law-abiding Americans. The data mining receives limited congressional oversight, rare judicial review and almost no public scrutiny. Thanks to new laws and technologies, authorities track and eavesdrop on Americans as they never could before, hauling in billions of bank records, travel receipts and other information. In several cases, they have wiretapped conversations between lawyers and defendants, challenging the legal principle that attorney-client communication is inviolate.”
by gtdonovan on September 7, 2011 at 9:05 am · Filed under CIA, governance, link, NYC, nypd, police, religion, security, surveillance
From the article: “The New York Police Department compiled lists of mosques and Muslim businesses it saw as potential security risks for reasons that included endorsing conservative religious views or having devout customers … That effort has benefited from federal money and an unusually close relationship with the CIA, one that at times blurred the lines between domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering.”
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