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A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
A network of cooperative alternatives are replacing rampant exploitation with decent work.
Er meldde zich een ontdekkingsreiziger om te praten over de wildernis. Langzamerhand verbazen de onderwerpen me niet meer waarover mensen in gesprek willen. God, richtlijnen inzake het hergebruik van overheidsinformatie, romankunst, seks. Koffie drinken is in zo’n geval het beste. En dus zaten de onbekende man en ik in de betongrijze hal van een universiteitsgebouw, omdat ik daar toevallig toch…
“We might as well go down fighting.”
Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: an always-connected portable personal web server that fits in your pocket.
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1.
Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf parts and Site.
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1.
Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf parts and Site.
Google’s reputation has remained relatively unscathed despite behaviors similar to Facebook’s. This could be the tipping point
China’s state disinformation campaigns against the Hong Kong protesters are unwelcome on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, with the mainstream platforms shutting down accounts that spread propag…
The following memo was written and circulated by me to all of Facebook’s employees around the world. It was sent November 8, 2018, shortly before my fina
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers.
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
Foreign tourists in China looking to buy a bottle of water or a taxi ride are finding themselves out of luck, with many merchants only accepting money by QR code.
With little more than a text editor—and years of experience as a web developer—UI engineer Diana Adrianne Smith creates Flemish and baroque inspired portraits using HTML and CSS, the two primary presentation markup languages designed to display web pages. The portraits fill thousands of lines of cod
Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, who work together as the Adrien M / Claire B Company (previously), explore the intersection of tangible and augmented reality in their multi-media projects. They recently launched a Kickstarter to support their latest project, Acqua Alta - Crossing the mirror. Acq
For three years, WIRED has tracked the elite and shadowy Russian vanguard of cyberwar.
De politie wil morele grenzen passeren. De krijgsmacht wil desinformatie verspreiden. Als gewone burger kan ik daarbij niet achterblijven. „It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me.” Na vandaag ga ik liegen om de wereld beter te maken.Vorige week organiseerde de politie „op een waanzinnige locatie” een innovatiefestival onder de titel Crxssing Bxrders. Volgens de annonce ging men er…
For years, the Internet Archive has been acquiring books (their goal is every book ever published) and warehousing them and scanning them. Now, these books are being “woven into WikipediaR…
Government regulation is the preferred mechanism among tech workers to ensure the consequences of technology for people and society are taken into account. But almost half of people in tech (45%) believe their sector is currently regulated too little.
UN Special Rapporteur released the preliminary findings of his sixth report on information and communication technology. They include tangible suggestions to internet companies and states whose current efforts to control hate speech online are failing to comply with the fundamental principles of human rights.
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
For a 22 year old, Joshua Browder has already made a few enemies
‘Wie weet hier wat SyRI is?” Een belangrijke vraag, onlangs gesteld door een acteur aan een publiek, tijdens de voorstelling #niksteverbergen van De Verleiders. Nog geen tien handen. De zaal van het DeLaMar Theater zat vol (het was een slimme, goede voorstelling), eenzaam staken die handen boven de hoofden uit. Het verbaasde me dat het er zo weinig waren, want SyRI gaat ons allemaal aan.Nog één…
Special Projects - Paper PhonePaper Phone is an experimental app which helps you have a little break away from your digital world, by printing a personal booklet of the information you’ll need that day.
Evgeny Morozov was al jaren voordat het in de mode raakte kritisch op Big Tech. Maar altijd vanaf de zijlijn. Toen bedacht en bouwde deze briljante denker een systeem dat breekt met de dominante wetten van de aandachtseconomie. Ik was erbij, toen hij vorige maand vanuit Zuid-Italië The Syllabus met de wereld deelde. (Dit artikel is ook te beluisteren.)
In het journaal laat de NOS een filmpje van een meisje zien. Loes heet ze. Een achternaam heeft ze niet. Een gezicht ook niet: ze wordt van achteren gefilmd en haar stem is vervormd, zodat ze onherkenbaar in beeld komt. Loes is illustratiemateriaal bij een onderwerp dat op de agenda is gezet door de Nationaal Rapporteur Mensenhandel en Seksueel Geweld tegen Kinderen. Die rapporteur heeft een…
German security researchers from Security Research Lab created a suite of apps for Google and Amazon smart speakers that did trivial things for their users, appeared to finish and go dormant, but w…
Tsunami Democràtic is a radical, decentralized wing of the resurgent Catalan independence movement, centered around an anonymously authored app designed to coordinate revolutionary uprisings.
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Afscheidsinterview met CTIVD-voorzitter Harm BrouwerHij werd vlak na de onthullingen van EdwardSnowden voorzitter van de CTIVD en kreeg daarna de ‘Sleepwet’ voor de kiezen.Nu neemt Harm Brouwer afscheid. In een interview met Argos blikt de toezichthouder op de inlichtingendiensten terug op een roerige periode. ‘De impact van de nieuwe inlichtingenwet is door iedereen enorm onderschat.’Bij zijn aantreden benadrukte de nieuwe voorzitter van de Commissie van Toezicht op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten al meteen dat de wereld drastisch was veranderd. ‘Denkt men werkelijk dat de geheime diensten alleen nog maar bezig zijn met toestemming vragen om brieven open te maken?, vroeg Brouwer zich retorisch af. Het was een jaar nadat oud-NSA-medewerker Edward Snowden de modus operandi van inlichtingendiensten had blootgelegd. De Amerikanen en hun bondgenoten bleken de data van honderden miljoenen burgers te verzamelen. ‘Snowden heeft met zijn onthullingen de samenleving gevoelig gemaakt voor het werk van de diensten’, concludeert Brouwer vijf jaar later. ‘En ik vind dat een geheime dienst gegeven de aard van het werk dat ze doen, ook een kritische samenleving moet hebben.’
Donotpay started as a project to help people automatically fight parking tickets, before its then-teenaged creator, the UK-born Stanford computer science undergrad Joshua Browder expanded it to hel…
Security research Ophir Harpaz was trying to book a flight using Onetravel; as she browsed available itineraries, she couldn’t help but notice a prominent warning that “39 people are lo…
Earlier this month, Google announced a new collection of auto-delete settings for your personal information that allows you balance some of the conveniences of data-collection (for example, remembe…
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
It’s an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword — “jews,” “women,” “black people” — and gets back a bunch of far-right conspira…
Als een ezel tussen twee hooischelven vroeg ik me vorige week af op welke kop ik zou klikken. Koos ik voor de krantenkop van het Algemeen Dagblad? „Streep door gehate wet rol verpleegkundigen”. Of zou ik vallen voor het nieuwsbericht van RTL? „Omstreden wetsvoorstel verpleegkundigen van de baan.”Vorig jaar, toen u nog jong en onschuldig was, zou u uw schouders hebben opgehaald over zo’n vraag.
The behavioural scientist has advised tech companies on how to get people hooked – now he’s telling us how to break the habit• Follow Eyal’s guide to avoiding digital distraction
The Volfefe Index measures how much the President's tweets affect volatility in the bond market. In 2017, we launched our own investing project based on the President's tweets.
There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare
As former MEP Marietje Schaake (previously) writes, “Can we please stop calling Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc ‘The online public square’? They’re ad companies. It is like calling a billbo…
Essay: Silicon Valley deed lang chic met TED Talks en een zogenaamde ‘derde cultuur’ van tech-denkers. Meer dan pr was het niet, schrijft Evgeny Morozov .
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he…
Coraline Ada Ehmke’s Hippocratic License is a software license that permits the broad swathe of activities enabled by traditional free/open licenses, with one exception it bars use by: “…
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.
The popular app doesn’t tell users when a video was posted. Creators say that makes it easier to steal content—but there are also upsides to forgetting what day it is.
Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
Machine learning systems are pretty good at finding hidden correlations in data and using them to infer potentially compromising information about the people who generate that data: for example, re…
Hkmap Live is a crowdsourced app that uses reports from a Telegram group to track the locations of protesters, police, and traffic, as well as the use of antipersonnel weapons like tear gas, mass a…
A beauty from last February: Kyle McDonald tweeted redacted social media screenshots from a surveillance camera owner that emitted a steady stream of alerts because it saw a face in the garden R…
Instead of breaking up Facebook, America should create a public alternative.
Edward Snowden, late in the pages of his memoir, Permanent Record, describes his sensation at being personally introduced to XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s ultimate tool of intimate, individual electronic surveillance. Among the NSA’s technological tools (some of which Snowden aided in perfecting), XKEYSCORE was, according to Snowden, “the most invasive...if only because [the NSA agents are] closest to the user—that is, the closest to the person being surveilled.” For nearly three hundred pages, the memoir has built to this scene.