Links

In an effort to get back to providing these links more regularly, this week’s batch is below. Be sure to check out Kids, Surveillance, and the Damned Internet, in which Cory Doctorow talks about how various technologies actually train children, skinner box style, to accept surveillance as normal. Also, Climatology-Defying Paper Yanked for Plagiarism is worth a read; do know that I’ll be following that issue in particular, as this guy ruined numerous careers with his plagiarized paper … which turned out to be garbage. Feel sorry for him? Not so much.

Enjoy!
Censorship:

• Documenting Tools for Beating Internet Censorship    16 May 2011, 12:31 pm
• How to Read Freedom House’s Censorship Circumvention Report    18 May 2011, 1:01 pm
• India – New rules reinforce Internet control and surveillance    19 May 2011, 8:03 am

Copyright:

• Senate Bill Gives Feds Power to Order Blacklisting of Piracy Sites    12 May 2011, 3:02 pm
• RIAA Legislation: No Warrant Required to Search, Seize Optical-Disc Plants    18 May 2011, 12:39 pm
• Streaming Movie Service Zediva Countersues MPAA    19 May 2011, 1:15 pm

FOI:

• Another Agency May Have Lied to Court in a FOIA Case    13 May 2011, 11:14 am
• EFF Demands Answers About Secret Surveillance Law Memo    20 May 2011, 12:02 am

Gender:

• Where Are All the Women Scientists?    13 May 2011, 11:23 am
• Bringing Them Back    19 May 2011, 2:45 am

Law:

• Terrorists Have Rights Too: What International Law Says about the Killing of Bin Laden    13 May 2011, 6:34 am
• White House Wants Tougher Penalties for Computer Breaches    13 May 2011, 11:18 am
• White House Wants Mandatory Three-Year Sentence for Critical-Infrastructure Hackers    13 May 2011, 1:06 pm
• New Yorker Sheds New Light on NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping and Data Mining    16 May 2011, 2:37 pm
• Supreme Court OKs Warrantless House Search    17 May 2011, 10:37 am
• Join EFF in Supporting California Bill That Requires Police to Get a Warrant Before Searching Cell Phones    19 May 2011, 1:17 pm
• Report: Superinjunctions, anonymised injunctions and open justice    20 May 2011, 2:57 am
• Lawmakers Again Punt on Patriot Act Reform    20 May 2011, 8:54 am

Medical Technology:

• Portuguese Software Enables Automatic Analysis of Mammograms    13 May 2011, 11:18 am
• The Next Computer: Your Genes    19 May 2011, 2:46 am

Miscellany:

• Google to Pay Feds $500 Million Fine for Rogue Pharma Ads — Report    12 May 2011, 5:01 pm
• Climatology-Defying Paper Yanked for Plagiarism    17 May 2011, 7:15 am
• Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language    17 May 2011, 2:15 pm
• Confronting the Stasi Past: When the Persecuted and the Persecutors Trade Places    19 May 2011, 8:40 am

Politics:

• Palestinian territories – Photographer deliberately shot by Israeli soldier during Nakba Day clashes    17 May 2011, 4:03 am
• Drone Killing Debate: Germany Limits Information Exchange with US Intelligence    17 May 2011, 6:01 am
• Russia expels Israel’s military attache    18 May 2011, 7:53 pm

Privacy:

• Kids, Surveillance, and the Damned Internet    13 May 2011, 8:06 am
• Finding middle ground in the do-not-track debate    14 May 2011, 10:22 pm
• Senate Bill Requires Warrant for E-Mail, Cloud Content    17 May 2011, 1:39 pm
• EFF Applauds New Electronic Privacy Bill That Tells the Government: Come Back With a Warrant!    17 May 2011, 2:43 pm
• FCC, FTC seek explanations on phone location data    19 May 2011, 7:12 am

Robotics:

• Controling robotic arms is child’s play    13 May 2011, 8:22 am
• Applying neuroscience to robot vision    16 May 2011, 6:12 am
• Team Robot: Researchers Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicles With Advanced Collaborative Exploration and Mapping Capabilities    19 May 2011, 2:47 am

Security:

• Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges    13 May 2011, 1:54 pm
• A Hiccup for Google Phones: German Researchers Find Android Security Flaw    18 May 2011, 5:38 am
• Dropbox Fires Back Against Allegations It Misled Users    18 May 2011, 3:54 pm
• Fearing Industrial Destruction, Researcher Delays Disclosure of New Siemens SCADA Holes    18 May 2011, 5:47 pm

Technology:

• Government Developing Data Mining Tools to Fight Terrorism    13 May 2011, 11:17 am
• Deduplicating Devices Considered Harmful    17 May 2011, 7:52 am
• France Halts ‘Three Strikes’ IP-Address Collection After Data Leak    17 May 2011, 2:19 pm
• Which Technologies Get Better Faster?    19 May 2011, 2:43 am
• Facebook Can Serve as Personality Test    19 May 2011, 2:48 am
• Facebook’s not-so-stealth campaign against Google    20 May 2011, 2:42 pm
• $1 million offered in search of an improved algorithm    20 May 2011, 2:42 pm

WikiLeaks:

• Bradley Manning Friend Sues DHS Over Seized Laptop    13 May 2011, 11:23 am

-D