Inventor of the world wide web says the extension of the state’s surveillance powers would be a ‘destruction of human rights’.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2012/apr/18/tim-berners-lee-web-snooping-bill-audio
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Tim Berners-Lee warns against web snooping bill
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Tim Berners-Lee on the rise of walled gardens
Inventor of the world wide web says that throughout the history of the internet, people had been concerned about the emergence of apparently dominant giants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2012/apr/18/tim-berners-lee-walled-gardens-audio
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Tim Berners-Lee on internet data and privacy
Inventor of the world wide wide talks about the potential misuses of personal information by companies, organisations and governments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2012/apr/18/tim-berners-lee-internet-data-privacy-audio
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Divorcing Google
This week, two class action lawsuits were filed by privacy advocates against Google, because under their new privacy policy, the company can pool user data collected from all of its web services into one place. Software researcher Tom Henderson reacted in a different way: he decided to stop using all of Google’s services. Bob speaks with Tom about how he “divorced Google.”
GUESTS: Tom Henderson
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Public Or Private: Keeping Google From Being ‘Evil’ : NPR
Google announced plans to adjust its privacy policy in order to allow the company to merge user data across email, social networking and other services. This has raised eyebrows in the tech community and even in Congress. So what exactly are the problems, and potential benefits, for this change in the policy of one of the world’s largest tech companies?
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/29/146062607/public-or-private-keeping-google-from-being-evil
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Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future—and Locked Us In
Brian X. Chen explains how the iPhone is opening the door to what he calls the "always-on" future, where we are all constantly connected to a global Internet via flexible, incredibly capable gadgets that allow us to do anything, anytime, from anywhere. In Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future—and Locked Us In, he explains the far-reaching implications of this future—both positive and negative—throughout all areas of our lives.
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The Problem of Sock Puppets
On the Media, a US NPR program, examines what happened when Dilbert creator Scott Adams joined Metafilter to defend himself in a forum criticizing him, but did so using a pseudonym. Scott Adams was outed very quickly by members in the forum, but Metafilter also confirmed it was Scott Adams after he refused to admit it himself.
A great overview explaining the various cultures and community mores that exist across the internet, just as all communities differ from each other. The best overview how complicated social can be in 6 minutes.
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Surveillance
We spy on the new culture of surveillance. Kurt Andersen talks to technologist and philosopher Jaron Lanier about why we have to watch the watchers. An artist meticulously tracks government spy satellites crossing the night sky. A computer scientist explains what goes into building a facial recognition system. And sitting silently in her car, a photographer secretly snaps pictures of strangers in their homes.
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Tech Weekly live: Personal privacy and public diplomacy
In a special edition recorded live at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, Aleks Krotoski is joined by coder Austin Heap and Christina Zaba of NO2ID to talk about privacy, surveillance and online censorship.
Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group joins Aleks Krotoski and Charles Arthur in a special Tech Weekly, recorded live at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
Our other guests? Austin Heap is a wunderkind hacker who used his own encryption software, Haystack, to open up the Iranian internet in the aftermath of the disputed elections in 2009. By breaking through the Iranian government’s blockade, the software allowed people on the ground in Tehran to access communication tools they could use to describe unfolding events to the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, personal surveillance has reached an all-time high: our web traffic is observed and recorded by governments and corporations. With every click we create personal digital identities that ‘belong’ to other people. Should we be worried about the private becoming public in this way, or should we reclaim ourselves using encryption software that hides who we are and where we go online? NO2ID’s Christine Zaba will be on hand to lead you through the issues and the options.
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From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/audio/2010/mar/30/austin-heap-christina-zaba-privacy
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Q&A with Bruce Schneier
In this podcast you’ll hear a Q&A with Bruce Schneier of BT Counterpane, as moderated by Risky Business host Patrick Gray at the recent GovCERT Symposium in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Topics covered include cloud computing, privacy, software manufacturer liability for defects, two factor authentication and more!
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