As usual, lots of stuff about politics, copyright, and privacy. Two articles that fall outside that, though, are of particular interest this week: In 2009, for every $1 of white household wealth, black households had two cents and Anti-Vaccine Doctor Planned to Profit from Scare. They’re not particularly happy articles, but they’re important, I think.
Censorship:
- Age of insecurity 8 July 2011, 4:01 am
- Amazon user feedback used for censorship 9 July 2011, 7:26 am
- When software offends, the pantyshot package controversy 10 July 2011, 3:08 pm
Copyright / Law:
- It’s Back: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Returns From The Grave 6 July 2011, 5:41 pm
- Major ISPs agree to “six strikes” copyright enforcement plan 7 July 2011, 10:26 am
- The Content Industry and ISPs Announce a “Common Framework for Copyright Alerts”: What Does it Mean for Users? 7 July 2011, 5:43 pm
- Wizard of Oz court ruling: putting parts of public domain back under copyright 8 July 2011, 10:57 am
- Feds Defend Internet Domain Seizure in Piracy Crackdown 12 July 2011, 1:40 pm
- Monkeys Don’t Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos 12 July 2011, 2:22 pm
- ISP flip-flops: why do they now support “six strikes” plan? 12 July 2011, 2:57 pm
- Internet service providers aid copyright crackdown 13 July 2011, 12:23 pm
Employment:
- In 2009, for every $1 of white household wealth, black households had two cents 10 July 2011, 6:27 am
- $1 of every $5 in US wallets in 2010 came from programs like unemployment & SS 12 July 2011, 2:42 pm
Hacking:
- Washington Post Hacked: 1,270,000 Emails and User IDs Compromised 7 July 2011, 2:53 am
- Could hacking be done in the public interest? 7 July 2011, 3:46 am
- Anonymous vows revenge after 15 arrested; AntiSec hacks continue 7 July 2011, 5:30 pm
- Anonymous hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, US military contractor, 90k logins dumped 11 July 2011, 11:46 am
- AntiSec target learns the hard way that whitelists > blacklists 11 July 2011, 1:35 pm
- Anonymous hits US military contractor site 11 July 2011, 3:21 pm
- ‘Military Meltdown Monday’ — 90K Military Usernames, Hashes Released 12 July 2011, 9:24 am
Library / Museum / Archive:
- Old Dominion U. Researchers Ask How Much of the Web Is Archived 11 July 2011, 9:28 am
- ‘German History Isn’t Beautiful’: Dresden Museum Seeks to Tell Truth about War 12 July 2011, 5:40 am
Media:
- War dead outcry deepens UK hacking scandal 7 July 2011, 8:13 am
- News of the World to close amid phone scandal 7 July 2011, 9:19 am
- Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal. 7 July 2011, 10:26 am
- Privacy and the UK Phone Hacking Scandal 7 July 2011, 11:26 am
- UK tabloid shut down amid phone scandal 7 July 2011, 10:53 pm
- The World from Berlin: ‘British Journalists Bend the Truth, Plagiarize Competitors and Break Laws’ 8 July 2011, 4:36 am
- News of the World fallout could change Britain’s media culture 11 July 2011, 1:50 am
- Royals ‘among UK phone-hack victims’ 11 July 2011, 9:35 pm
- Murdoch under pressure to drop BSkyB bid 12 July 2011, 2:07 pm
Medical Technology:
- MIT Develops Cheap Smartphone Clip-On to Detect Cataracts 7 July 2011, 3:43 am
- Dental Students to Train On Life-Like Robot 8 July 2011, 7:21 am
- Biomolecular Computer Can Autonomously Sense Multiple Signs of Disease 8 July 2011, 10:23 am
- HBS Student Creates Smartphone App To Detect Malaria 8 July 2011, 10:54 am
- EyeNetra – Your $2 Eye Testing Tool That Works 10 July 2011, 5:17 am
- You Are What You Tweet: Tracking Public Health Trends From Twitter Messages 11 July 2011, 9:28 am
- Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics 12 July 2011, 2:33 pm
Miscellany:
- People Cheat More If the Benefits Are Shared 7 July 2011, 8:31 am
- Switzerland’s Anti-PowerPoint Party 7 July 2011, 10:21 am
- Anti-Vaccine Doctor Planned to Profit from Scare : Discovery News 7 July 2011, 2:03 pm
- Migration flows across the world 8 July 2011, 4:49 am
- Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds 8 July 2011, 10:56 am
- The Art of Surprise (commentary on” illegally” installing software) 10 July 2011, 7:52 am
- New York artist investigated over Apple Store spyware project 10 July 2011, 7:55 am
- Beautiful Data: The Art of Science Field Notes 12 July 2011, 4:00 am
Politics:
- E. Coli Veggie Screening Program Under Attack 7 July 2011, 6:23 am
- Genetically Modified Grass Could Make Superweed Problem Worse 11 July 2011, 11:28 am
- In the US, people will need to pay $6400 per year for health insurance 12 July 2011, 2:39 pm
Politics – Israel:
- Israel prepares for ‘fly-in’ activists 7 July 2011, 11:30 pm
- Paris ‘flytilla’ activists grounded 8 July 2011, 2:45 am
- Aid Flotilla Debate: What the Gaza Strip Really Needs 8 July 2011, 9:04 am
- Israel clamps down on fly-in protest 9 July 2011, 2:51 am
- French flotilla ship ‘sails for Gaza’ 9 July 2011, 9:46 pm
- Israel frees detained Al Jazeera journalist 10 July 2011, 4:53 am
- Israel passes law banning settler boycotts 11 July 2011, 10:24 pm
Privacy:
- EFF Urges Senators to Recognize Need for Updated Privacy Laws 7 July 2011, 1:47 pm
- EFF Asks Indiana Court to Protect Anonymity of Indy Star Commenter 7 July 2011, 1:55 pm
- Congress Tries To Hide Data Retention Law Pretending It’s an Anti-Child Porn Law 8 July 2011, 3:46 am
- Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you online 8 July 2011, 3:47 am
- EFF Urges Microsoft and Cisco to Reconsider China 8 July 2011, 11:10 am
- How Your Private Emails Can Be Used Against You in Court 8 July 2011, 11:20 am
- Google+ NSA, no thanks 8 July 2011, 11:31 am
- The FBI’s Next Generation Identification: Bigger and Faster but Much Worse for Privacy 8 July 2011, 2:12 pm
- Prosecutors Demand Laptop Password in Violation of Fifth Amendment 8 July 2011, 2:36 pm
- Google+: And You Thought Facebook Is A Privacy Nightmare 10 July 2011, 11:11 am
- Protecting Protestors With Photos That Never Existed 11 July 2011, 9:27 am
- Google Seeks Immediate Appeal of Street View Wiretap Ruling 11 July 2011, 11:19 am
- DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop 12 July 2011, 7:53 am
- Police: Internet providers must keep user logs 12 July 2011, 11:03 am
- Study finds 12.5% of companies violating own do-not-track policies 12 July 2011, 2:25 pm
- FBI interrogates this kid over a news article he read last Saturday 12 July 2011, 2:55 pm
- Blogger Sues To See If Government Kept a File on Him 13 July 2011, 6:00 am
Robotics:
- Project Works on Robots That Can Recognize Human Emotions 11 July 2011, 9:26 am
Security:
- Stuxnet Timeline Shows Correlation Among Events 11 July 2011, 4:00 am
- Feature: How digital detectives deciphered Stuxnet, the most menacing malware in history 11 July 2011, 7:47 am
- Security holes discovered in iPhones, iPads 11 July 2011, 12:23 pm
- Automated Shoulder Surfing Attacks (Computer Vision meets on screen keyboards) 12 July 2011, 2:34 pm
Technology:
- Eroding NASA Science: Space Telescope Scrapped? 6 July 2011, 3:13 pm
- Flying Cars Get OK From Department of Transportation 7 July 2011, 4:04 am
- Israeli Algorithm Sheds Light on the Bible 8 July 2011, 10:22 am
- AP Confirms Photographer Manipulated His Own Shadow 12 July 2011, 7:53 am
- Police say wearing video cameras offers protection 12 July 2011, 12:23 pm
- Did Facebook hijack a developer’s app for its own purposes? 12 July 2011, 2:17 pm
War:
- South Korean web attacks might have been war drill 7 July 2011, 4:02 am
- Anti-Tank Brigade: Merkel Weapons Deal Under Fire from All Sides 8 July 2011, 7:50 am
- The Panetta Doctrine: Declare Victory, Don’t Go Home 11 July 2011, 1:00 am
- A New Arms Race: Exports Booming for German Weapons Manufacturers 11 July 2011, 7:23 am
- Lockdown: U.S. Builds New Jails Across Afghanistan 12 July 2011, 3:33 pm
- Rights group seeks Bush ‘torture’ inquiry 12 July 2011, 4:25 pm
WikiLeaks:
- For The Moment, Visa And MasterCard Reopen Payments To WikiLeaks 7 July 2011, 2:26 pm
- Visa Europe Will Block WikiLeaks Donations Through Payment Site 11 July 2011, 12:23 pm
- Assange asks UK court to block extradition 12 July 2011, 10:55 am
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