(from openculture.com)

The problem with a Big Data World when everything you say is data mined: "The collective activity of humanity provides the data that informs the decision making processes of algorithmic systems such as high-frequency trading and aggregated news services that, in turn, are owned by those who wield global power and control: banks, corporations, governments."

Some ideas on what privacy laws in India could look like.

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22 years on, it's time to reflect on how far open source has come, and what the future holds.

A blueprint for rigging, based on Zimbabwe's latest election.

And: Mission impossible: The story of my vote; and a report on cyber attacks on Zimbabweans during the election.

Despite a ruling that the CIA can't ignore FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests on the US's drone program, the agency is still refusing to make information public, reports Salon.com.

The Journal of Peer Production's issue #3 is out. Titled "The Critical Power of Free Software", the issue includes an article on "The Ethic of the Code: An Ethnography of a ‘Humanitarian Hacking’ Community", and a debate titled "There Is No Free Software".

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In a Wired guest post titled "Trolls aren't going anywhere, so we need to learn to live with them",  Jamie Bartlett says, "You should be angry and saddened by the recent 'trolling' of Caroline Criado-Perez, Stella Creasy MP, Hannah Smith and others: but you should not be surprised."

On the terms we (and the media) use, and what this says about our attitudes and values.

A new study by Colin Bennett looks at voter surveillance practices in the US and how these have been adopted in other democratic countries.