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WSJ: Surveillance Company Says It Sent Fake iTunes, Flash Updates

by on December 8, 2011 at 5:08 pm · Filed under commerce, cracking, Gamma International, governance, hacking, iTunes, link, privacy, PrivacyPod, property, security, surveillance, updates, WSJ

From the article: “The Wall Street Journal unveiled on Saturday the “Surveillance Catalog” – an online database containing highlights from surveillance industry marketing documents. The documents show dozens of companies making and selling everything from “massive intercept” gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country to “hacking” tools that allow governments to break into people’s computers.”

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Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference

by on November 30, 2011 at 12:29 pm · Filed under conference, CUNY, policing, privacy, security, surveillance, youth

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Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference

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The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?

by on November 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm · Filed under animation, censorship, commerce, cyberactivism, cyberutopian, digital captives, digital renegades, Evgeny Morozov, governance, Internet, InternetPod, participation, privacy, RSA, surveillance, youth

From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA):

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TPMIdeaLab: FTC To Monitor Google’s Privacy Practices For Next 20 Years

by on October 27, 2011 at 10:12 am · Filed under FTC, Google, governance, link, opt-out, pii, privacy, Social Network

From the article: “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday finalized a landmark settlement with Google in which the company has agreed to be audited for its privacy practices for the next 20 years … The commission charged that Google engaged in unfair and deceptive practices in 2010 when it launched Google Buzz by leading users of its Gmail system to believe that they could easily opt-out of the social network. The controls that would enable them to do that were ineffective, the FTC charged at the time. Also the tools that Google created to enable users to limit the sharing of users’ personal information were confusing and difficult to find, the agency alleged.”

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NY Times: Pirate Party Wins 8.9 Percent of Vote in Berlin

by 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?”

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