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Edge: ELIZA'S WORLD - the computer re-codes the self
Do we lose touch with reality when computers take over that reality?
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YouTube - Best of Idiocracy 2
The continuation of clips from Idiocracy. advertising exchange at the start
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | 'I was falsely branded a paedophile'
real-case of privacy violation leading to ruined life
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The Facebook Initiative – Bill Gates's greatest invention | The Register
"I envision a day when people meet each other and their filters immediately identify their likes and dislikes. Then, the users can talk about what they have in common rather than bickering or wasting time on irrelevant issues." Next up for Gates is a system that will display text-based ads in Zuckerberg's eyes. So, for example, when he's talking to his mom, an ad in his right eye will display "I want a Nintendo Wii", while an ad in the left eye will display "Kiss me on the right cheek if you want tulips for Mother's Day or the left cheek if you want waffles". Looking ahead, the eye displays could help negotiate discussions between friends by putting up information about the brand of clothes you're wearing or music you recently stole online. "Isn't this green sweater nice? Ask me where I bought it. Shake my right hand for an e-coupon." Gates explains that, "People shouldn't have to dedicate brain cells to telling their peers about their favorite bands or movies. That's the type of stuff that can be handled in software."
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Al Jazeera English - News - Two Sacked For Obama Privacy Breach
Database state - close to changing political outcomes.
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Slashdot | Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet
Dempsey explains that, in order to successfully fight cyber crime, law enforcement officials need to move much faster than average investigators and cooperate with international law enforcement officials. The problem is various legal systems are unprepared for the fight, which is why he claims we must change the structure of the Internet.
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Darren Nixon added to the database « OurKingdom
Jon Bright (London, OK): Noticed this in the Metro yesterday - Darren Nixon, a 28 year old mechanic from Stoke-on-Trent, was arrested mistakenly by a police firearms unit, who believed he was carrying a gun (it turned out to be a black iPod). The police had been phoned by a commuter, and can hardly be blamed for sending a firearms unit if someone dials 999 and says there’s a gun involved. But he has, of course, been given the regulation DNA swab and fingerprinting - details of which are immediately added to our burgeoning DNA database - and furthermore, if the Metro is correct, his record will always reflect that he was arrested on suspicion of a firearms offence, all of which makes for uneasy reading for anyone worried about the advance of the ‘database state’ in this country.
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How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free - New York Times
Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network’s use of personal data.
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OurKingdom
These clauses of the Charter could be used to prevent investigative journalism. A wealthy crook, hearing that someone is researching his affairs could demand to see the file on him and could then identify the sources.
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Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
The 2007 International Privacy Ranking
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Microsoft's Bid for Yahoo!: The Long View
The other important characteristic of the winners, of course, is that they tap into a data stream that really matters. Owning network effects around consumer photos, for instance, is much less powerful than owning network effects around paid search. So one of the key questions we have to ask ourselves going forward is this: what are the major data subsystems of the future Internet Operating System. Location, identity (and social graph), search (and not just web search but also product search, in which Amazon has a very strong position) come to mind. In a lot of ways, finding the data associated with the old vectors who, what, when, where, and how is a good place to start.
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Leaked UK gov't doc reveals plan to "coerce" Brits into national ID register -- MIRROR THIS FILE! - Boing Boing
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IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says - washingtonpost.com
IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says
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About Facebook
About Facebook Ari Melber
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BBC Reith Lectures - The Philosophy of Trust
The increased use of CCTV surveillance cameras has been, we are assured, for public safety. But what does this surveillance of our personal movement say about trust in our society? Do we need such a level of transparency to ensure public safety? Surely, as Onora O’Neill argues, increased surveillance lowers the level of trust, and increases suspicion - the antithesis of trust. Do we have the right to go about our private business without this level of suspicion? The implication is that we are no longer trustworthy, guilty before the act. If you have something to hide, then you must be guilty. Where does privacy sit in this transparent society? Is privacy a fundamental human right?
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Human vs. Machine: The Great Challenge of Our Time
I've written quite a bit about "bionic software," the idea that one of the distinguishing characteristics of Web 2.0 is that its applications are a new hybrid of man and machine, driven by algorithmic interpretation of aggregated human activity. Recent turmoil in financial markets show us just how such systems can run amok. Figuring out the right balance of man and machine is one of the great challenges of our time. We're increasingly building complex systems that involve both, but in what proportion? Bill Janeway will be talking at the conference with Rick Bookstaber, author of A Demon of Our Own Design. Bookstaber was the head of risk management for Morgan Stanley, and now runs a hedge fund. He argues that the very techniques originally developed to manage risk via computational means have actually increased risk. He asks whether we can put the genie back in the bottle, and whether we can afford not to. Incidentally, this same issue is playing itself out in the world of Web 2.0 itself, with new search engines, from Jason Calacanis' mahalo to Jimmy Wales' Wikia Search making the argument that a purely algorithmic approach is fundamentally flawed. In response to yesterday's announcement of Wikia Search, Cory Doctorow wrote, in a BoingBoing editorial entitled Wiki-inspired "transparent" search engine: We have a notion that the traditional search engine algorithm is "neutral" -- that it lacks an editorial bias and simply works to fulfill some mathematical destiny, embodying some Platonic ideal of "relevance." Compare this to an "inorganic" paid search result of the sort that Altavista used to sell. But ranking algorithms are editorial: they embody the biases, hopes, beliefs and hypotheses of the programmers who write and design them. Mahalo is placing a bet on human intervention in search results; Wikia Search on the power of making its ranking algorithms open and transparent (a la open source software). But both are trying to re-draw the boundary between human and machine.
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Al Jazeera English - News - Al-Qaeda Offers Mobile Videos
As-Sahab, the media production house of al-Qaeda, is issuing specially formatted videos from Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri that can be downloaded to cell phones. The move is aimed at spreading al-Qaeda's message and extending its influence.
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