BRITAIN'S GCHQ: "HACKING ONLINE POLLS"
(Screenshot of GCHQ'S menu of tools, published by The Intercept.
"...and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet." New spying revelations from The Intercept.
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NOTES FROM THE HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH CONFERENCE
What I Learned from Edward Snowden at the Hacker Conference, by Lucy Teitler, Vice.com
USER EXPERIMENTATION: OKCUPID PUBLISHES FINDINGS
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Hot on the heels of the facebook-research outcry: OKCupid Plays with love in user experiments. (New York Times)
"NET NEUTRALITY IS DEAD"
"Welcome to the age of digital discrimination", says John Naughton in The Guardian.
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: UN REPORT
New report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights looks at privacy and rights.
Read the press conference report, from Truthdig
NEW SNOWDEN INTERVIEW
Editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, flew to Russia to interview Edward Snowden.
Read the interview transcript here.
SURVEILLANCE AND ITS EFFECT ON....
....JOURNALISM, LAW, AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy - new report from Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.
...GOOGLE SEARCHES
Government surveillance and internet search behaviour - new research compares google search use before and after the Snowden revelations.
THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
Why Jimmy Wales is wrong and there is indeed a right to be forgotten. (Pando.com)
BIG DATA COMES TO THE OFFICE
Surveillance of social dynamics in the workplace. (New Yorker)
DATA BROKERS 02: TRACKING GETTING CREEPIER
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Online marketers are increasingly trying to track users offline as well. (Arstechnica)
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