"The wild profits and net worths that the internet has enabled has created a massive power shift," writes Dick Pountain on opendemocracy.net, "leaving the corporations to overbear the countries they inhabit." He takes a deeper look at the consequences for us as citizens.
"In a move that will thrill advertisers but make at least some members of the public queasy, a European outdoor advertising firm is rolling out ads using face detection this week.
The technology, called OptimEyes, will let advertisers know how many people are seeing their ads — and what kinds of people are viewing them. OptimEyes promises to identify the gender and rough age of viewers using face detection."
Bahrain Watch (an independent research and advocacy organisation in Bahrain) has published a report titled "The IP Spy Files: How Bahrain's Government Silences Anonymous Online Dissent".
Along with the report, there is an interactive timeline of online activists being arrested and harassed for their tweets; and safety tips.
Incognito Mode is designed to help you keep your personal data under control.
A new stduy, titled “Ethnic Profiling in Airport Screening: Lessons from Israel, 1968-2010,” considers the implications of ethnic profiling in airport screening practices using data collected from Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport — the first country in the world to introduce airport security.
If you're not yet convinced... more reasons to have another look at your passwords. Read Ars Technica's Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
A recent article profiled development programmes worldwide that are using "technologies for registering, identifying, and monitoring citizens": from biometric border controls supported by the World Bank, to surveillance drones in DRC.
(screenshot from the Social Roulette website)
Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account, and a 5 in 6 chance that it just posts "I played Social Roulette and survived" to your timeline…What have you got to lose?
Plans to monitor all telecommunications and Internet communications in India have been analysed by the Center for Internet and Society.
