Links

Another batch of links for you. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted one of these… but the draft thesis is turned in now, so I’m finally able to catch up! Enjoy!

Censorship:

• Peru – Appeal to presidential candidates after journalist gets three years for defamation    26 April 2011, 8:05 am
• Turkey – Online censorship now bordering on the ridiculous in Turkey    29 April 2011, 8:12 am
• Medical Justice: Stifling Speech of Patients with a Touch of “Privacy Blackmail”    4 May 2011, 11:39 am

Copyright:

• More Bad News for Righthaven: Domain Name Claim Dismissed in DiBiase Case    18 April 2011, 3:56 pm
• Why Righthaven’s Copyright Assignment Is A Sham – And Why It Matters    18 April 2011, 4:53 pm
• Righthaven Defies Court, Ignores Domain Name Ruling    22 April 2011, 11:43 am
• White House Threatens Science Blog Over Use of Logo    25 April 2011, 11:45 pm
• Righthaven v. CIO: It’s Hard Out Here for a Troll    26 April 2011, 3:42 pm
• LimeWire Facing Billion-Dollar Damages Trial    28 April 2011, 12:53 pm
• CNET Accused of Copyright Infringement for Distributing LimeWire    4 May 2011, 11:35 am
• The “PROTECT IP” Act: COICA Redux    12 May 2011, 8:37 am

Education:

• Open Season on Academic Copycats: Web-Based Plagiarism Hunters Have Politicians Nervous    21 April 2011, 7:37 am

Environment:

• Nature to Get Legal Rights in Bolivia    18 April 2011, 3:10 pm
• Gulf Oil Shouldn’t Spill Beneath the Radar    29 April 2011, 11:28 am
• Methane on Tap: Study Links Pollution to Gas Drilling    9 May 2011, 2:19 pm

Equality:

• Research: STEM Efforts for Females Poorly Measured    20 April 2011, 1:19 pm
• Mentorship Key for Women in IT, Says Collaborate Panel    20 April 2011, 1:41 pm
• Tunisian gender-parity ‘revolution’ hailed    21 April 2011, 10:32 am
• Anglesey hotel bans kitchen staff from speaking Welsh – North Wales News – News – Daily Post North Wales    21 April 2011, 11:16 am
• Technology Industry Still Failing to Inspire Women    22 April 2011, 11:08 am

Hacking:

• Appeals Court: No Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as a Hacker    29 April 2011, 12:50 pm

Holocaust:

• The Holocaust in the Dock: West Germany’s Efforts to Influence the Eichmann Trial    15 April 2011, 8:35 am
• 97-year-old on trial for Nazi war crimes    5 May 2011, 8:00 am
• Five Years for Helping the SS: Holocaust Death Camp Guard Demjanjuk Found Guilty    12 May 2011, 5:02 am

Law:

• Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS Monitoring    19 April 2011, 10:05 am
• Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower    26 April 2011, 4:49 pm
• Court OKs Firing of Boeing Computer-Security Whistleblowers    3 May 2011, 1:43 pm
• A Test for Universal Jurisdiction: War Crimes in Africa on Trial in Germany    5 May 2011, 7:27 am
• Court Says Porn on Work Computer Is Grounds for Firing    5 May 2011, 11:33 am

Medical Technology:

• Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn    14 April 2011, 1:39 pm
• Skin Factory: A Stuttgart Lab’s Pioneering Effort to Cultivate Human Flesh    15 April 2011, 6:42 am
• Computational Thinking ‘Vital for Child’s Analytical Ability’    15 April 2011, 9:54 am
• Pesticide Use Tied to Lower IQ in Children    21 April 2011, 7:30 am
• Video Roulette Perceived as Riskier Than Real    29 April 2011, 6:58 am
• Electric Fish’s Better Brain Linked to Biodiversity Boost    29 April 2011, 8:30 am
• Appeals Court OKs Fed Funding of Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research    29 April 2011, 2:26 pm
• US court lifts stem cell research ban    30 April 2011, 2:10 am
• In Therapy With Avatars    2 May 2011, 9:08 am
• Talk With a Dolphin via Underwater Translation Machine    11 May 2011, 1:15 pm

Miscellany:

• Oregon House Members Rickroll Colleagues    13 April 2011, 9:34 am
• Reader Photo: Stunning Interactive Sky Image    27 April 2011, 2:30 pm

Museum Library Archive:

• “The Curators”: Who Runs Online Museums?    19 April 2011, 10:00 am
• Digital Legacy: The Fate of Your Online Soul    1 May 2011, 2:27 am

Politics:

• The Digital Economy Act: What next?    21 April 2011, 4:01 am
• US deploys armed drones in Libya    22 April 2011, 1:23 am
• Obama avoids calling Armenia deaths genocide    23 April 2011, 11:38 pm
• Pakistanis rally against drone strikes    24 April 2011, 12:33 pm
• ‘Guantanamo files’: Dozens held were innocent    25 April 2011, 3:34 am
• CIA head to be new US defence secretary    27 April 2011, 7:16 am
• An Innocent in the Terror Prison: The Guantanamo File on Germany’s Murat Kurnaz    27 April 2011, 8:52 am
• Guantanamo’s Child Soldiers: Files Reveal Many Inmates Were Minors    28 April 2011, 3:50 am
• EFF to Council of Europe: Live Up to Your Internet Rights Commitments    30 April 2011, 5:08 pm
• Kafkaesque Machinery of Suspicion: A Casual Relationship with the Truth at Guantanamo    2 May 2011, 8:01 am
• Applying the Law in Guantanamo: ‘The Government’s Narrative Was a Lie’    2 May 2011, 8:02 am
• Justice, American Style: Was Bin Laden’s Killing Legal?    3 May 2011, 6:21 am
• A Symbol of the Nation’s Mood: ‘Europeans Find the Ground Zero Celebrations Somewhat Embarrassing’    4 May 2011, 4:55 am
• The World from Berlin: President Barack Obama’s ‘Retaliatory Justice’    4 May 2011, 7:01 am
• Protecting Criminals’ Rights: Court Orders Overhaul of Preventive Detention Laws    4 May 2011, 9:17 am
• Guttenberg’s Downfall: Ex-German Minister Plagiarized Intentionally    6 May 2011, 8:13 am
• Author Peter Bergen on Bin Laden’s Death: ‘The War on Terror Should Be Retired’    6 May 2011, 9:48 am

Privacy:

• Software Creates Privacy Mode to Help Secure Android Smartphones    15 April 2011, 9:54 am
• Who Has Your Back? In Depth: Which Companies Promise To Tell Users About Government Data Requests?    20 April 2011, 3:37 pm
• Yahoo plans to keep search records for 18 months    20 April 2011, 4:02 pm
• Who Has Your Back? In Depth: Corporate Transparency About Government Demands for User Information    22 April 2011, 9:10 am
• iPhone Secretly Tracks User Location, Say Researchers    22 April 2011, 11:10 am
• Apple slammed over iPhone, iPad location tracking    25 April 2011, 1:23 pm
• Saudi Proposal: King Suggested Chips Could Be Implanted in Gitmo Inmates    26 April 2011, 3:46 am
• United Arab Emirates – Use of most secure BlackBerry system restricted, bloggers arrested    28 April 2011, 6:27 am
• New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government’s Surveillance Spyware    29 April 2011, 3:53 pm
• Computers, Too, Can Give Away Location    1 May 2011, 3:24 am
• Wireless carriers get consent to use location data    2 May 2011, 2:31 pm
• SKorean police raid Google    4 May 2011, 7:12 am
• Europe Leads in Pushing for Privacy of User Data    4 May 2011, 11:18 am
• FBI Chastised by Court for Lying About Existence of Surveillance Records    4 May 2011, 4:28 pm
• Turkey – Government agency wants to install filtering software on every computer    6 May 2011, 3:01 am
• Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010    6 May 2011, 1:24 pm
• How to Check Your Car for a GPS Tracker    9 May 2011, 4:00 am
• U.S. Lawmaker Readies Bill to Let Web Users Avoid Tracking    9 May 2011, 4:02 pm
• Reader Privacy Bill Passes California Senate – Moves on to State Assembly    9 May 2011, 5:44 pm
• California Proposes Strong Privacy Protections for “Smart Meters”    10 May 2011, 2:10 pm
• New Department of Justice Documents Fail to Justify Expanding CALEA    11 May 2011, 1:47 pm
• Balancing privacy with benefits of location data    11 May 2011, 6:42 pm
• Google threatens to shut down Swiss Street View    12 May 2011, 7:12 am
• Internet Freedom Discussed at the Council of Europe    12 May 2011, 10:43 am

Robotics:

• Caterpillars inspire new movements in soft robots    26 April 2011, 6:30 pm
• Robots Learn to Share, Validating Hamilton’s Rule    4 May 2011, 11:18 am
• Speeding Swarms of Sensor Robots    4 May 2011, 11:19 am
• Robotics: A tiltable head could improve the ability of undulating robots to navigate disaster debris    9 May 2011, 12:12 pm

Roma:

• Right-Wing Militants on Patrol: A New Wave of Anti-Roma Violence in Hungary    27 April 2011, 7:48 am
• Hungary’s Rising Right: Roma Defenseless against Extremist Vigilantes    28 April 2011, 8:41 am

Security:

• Top Federal Lab Hacked in Spear-Phishing Attack    19 April 2011, 10:16 pm
• ‘HTTPS Now’ Campaign Urges Users to Take an Active Role in Protecting Internet Security    20 April 2011, 8:12 am
• The Botnets That Won’t Die    22 April 2011, 11:11 am
• Iran ‘targeted by new computer virus’    25 April 2011, 10:47 am
• PlayStation Network Hack: Who Did It?    27 April 2011, 3:47 pm
• PlayStation breach was kept under wraps    27 April 2011, 10:26 pm
• Wrongly Jailed Security Whistleblower Caught Up in PlayStation Hacker Hunt    29 April 2011, 4:33 pm
• Highway Robbery: Car Computer Controls Could Be Vulnerable to Hackers    1 May 2011, 3:25 am
• Security Lessons Still Lacking for Computer Science Grads    1 May 2011, 3:54 am
• Sony hit by second security breach    2 May 2011, 10:15 pm
• Google’s Android phones face more attacks via apps    4 May 2011, 1:01 am
• Sony execs apologize for network security breach    4 May 2011, 7:12 am
• Sony CEO apologizes for massive data breach    9 May 2011, 4:02 pm
• Sony to restore PlayStation Network by end of May    11 May 2011, 7:12 am
• Sony gamers may face ID-theft risk for years    12 May 2011, 5:11 pm

Social Media:

• Sexual Predators, Please Check Here: Match.com’s Deeply Flawed Plan to Screen for Sex Offenders    22 April 2011, 7:49 am
• Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter    22 April 2011, 11:14 am
• Policing content on social media sites – Opinion – Al Jazeera English    22 April 2011, 3:37 pm
• Wall Street Traders Mine Tweets to Gain a Trading Edge    4 May 2011, 11:18 am
• Checking in with Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley    11 May 2011, 6:42 pm

Technology:

• Scalable SQL    19 April 2011, 6:00 am
• India Plans Paper Trail for Electronic Voting Machines    20 April 2011, 1:18 pm
• EU to probe Internet providers’ traffic management    20 April 2011, 4:02 pm
• Tech Jobs Boom Like It’s 1999    22 April 2011, 11:08 am
• Emotional Video Gaming Makes the Action Real    22 April 2011, 11:12 am
• Microsoft boosts pay for employees worldwide    25 April 2011, 3:12 pm
• European union – Disappointing report and belated investigation on net neutrality    27 April 2011, 2:25 am
• Budget Cuts Shutter SETI’s Search for Aliens    27 April 2011, 10:45 am
• Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement    27 April 2011, 3:20 pm
• Laser Hole Punch Turns Hair Into Forensic Time Machine    27 April 2011, 3:20 pm
• Still Searching: SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter Talks Shutdown, Aliens    28 April 2011, 11:45 am
• Groupthink Not a Problem in Simulated Mars Mission    29 April 2011, 2:44 pm
• Rutgers Team Proposes Net Alternative    1 May 2011, 2:25 am
• Open Source Group Seeks Support From Higher Ed for Mobile Initiative    1 May 2011, 2:27 am
• Really Remote Data    1 May 2011, 3:25 am
• Identifying Innuendo No Joke for Comp Sci Researchers    2 May 2011, 9:08 am
• Talking to the Wall    4 May 2011, 11:19 am
• Silicon Valley CEOs see hiring surge continuing    5 May 2011, 12:52 am
• Storage Strife    5 May 2011, 9:42 am
• Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains    5 May 2011, 2:02 pm
• Unthinking Machines    10 May 2011, 2:59 am

WikiLeaks:

• Bradley Manning to Be Moved From Quantico    19 April 2011, 1:27 pm
• WikiLeaks suspect moving to Kansas base    19 April 2011, 3:09 pm
• Update: Friday Hearing Canceled in Battle Over Twitter Records’ Role in Wikileaks Investigation    19 April 2011, 3:30 pm
• WikiLeaks Releases Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Reports    24 April 2011, 10:00 pm
• WikiLeaks revelations about Al-Jazeera cameraman’s detention in Guantanamo    26 April 2011, 6:27 am
• WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010    26 April 2011, 2:31 pm
• Manning Ruled Competent to Stand for Court-Martial    29 April 2011, 10:10 am
• Life After Wikileaks    4 May 2011, 9:51 am
• Panama – Campaign to discredit journalists after WikiLeaks revelations    9 May 2011, 9:33 am
• WikiLeaks Threatens Its Own Leakers With $20 Million Penalty    11 May 2011, 1:47 pm

-D