Links

Well, it’s the end of an academic year, and I’m thinking about these “links.” Should I continue them? Should I keep on with certain categories of them? I’m not sure. I think I’m going to take a break from them for the summer, and have a think about what’s really important to digital culture. I’m not sure that “security” really is, nor “copyright / patent” either. I’ll have a think about it – and see whether I can resist flagging those particular categories of link as important. Meanwhile, if there’s anything which is important that you think I’m missing, please do let me know.

1. Saving Lives With Google Maps–Disaster-Tracking Software Developed by Abertay Student     18 May 2012, 9:01 pm
2. Law Enforcers, Privacy Advocates Debate Cell Phone Data Bill     18 May 2012, 8:51 pm
3. Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty proposals     18 May 2012, 5:14 pm
4. Swedish Telcom Giant Teliasonera Caught Helping Authoritarian Regimes Spy on Their Citizens     18 May 2012, 4:41 pm
5. Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US     18 May 2012, 2:08 pm
6. Top Handset Maker Confirms Backdoor in One of Its Models     18 May 2012, 10:58 am
7. Facebook Sued For $15 Billion In Suit Over User Tracking     18 May 2012, 10:24 am
8. Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM ‘crapware’     18 May 2012, 6:32 am
9. ICO: no fines for breaking cookie rules (EU)     18 May 2012, 6:30 am
10. NIH study finds that coffee drinkers have lower risk of death     18 May 2012, 6:17 am
11. London police collecting cellphone data     18 May 2012, 5:59 am
12. Is aging a disease?     18 May 2012, 5:51 am
13. Israel’s Butterfly UAVs     18 May 2012, 5:38 am
14. GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents – a Tourniquet for American Liberty     18 May 2012, 5:35 am
15. TED and inequality: The real story     18 May 2012, 4:53 am
16. 25 petabytes bringing storage firm, court case to the brink of collapse     18 May 2012, 3:38 am
17. Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online     18 May 2012, 1:16 am
18. Patenting statistical techniques? Can you say WTF?     18 May 2012, 1:16 am
19. Turkey kills school books, moves to tablet in all schools     18 May 2012, 1:15 am
20. Coping With Preservation and Proportionality in Legal Holds     18 May 2012, 1:14 am
21. It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules     17 May 2012, 2:51 pm
22. With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track     17 May 2012, 1:56 pm
23. To Warrant or Not to Warrant? ACLU, Police Clash Over Cellphone Location Data     17 May 2012, 12:02 pm
24. The Dictator’s practical Internet guide to power retention     17 May 2012, 11:05 am
25. Float-Tank Therapy: Experiencing Sensory Deprivation     17 May 2012, 11:05 am
26. Apple is Filtering “Jailbreak” Term in the US iTunes Store     17 May 2012, 11:04 am
27. BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds     17 May 2012, 10:58 am
28. Indian Supreme Court website hacked in response to TPB, Vimeo block     17 May 2012, 10:56 am
29. Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option     17 May 2012, 10:41 am
30. Coffee drinking linked to longer life     17 May 2012, 10:41 am
31. Seventh Circuit Addresses Audio Recordings and the First Amendment     17 May 2012, 10:10 am
32. We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review     17 May 2012, 7:38 am
33. How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup     17 May 2012, 6:13 am
34. Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral     17 May 2012, 6:13 am
35. Top judge: ditching software patents a “bad solution”     17 May 2012, 5:17 am
36. Full Distributed Teams: are they viable?     17 May 2012, 4:28 am
37. Study: Teens Think Your eBooks Are Lame, Prefer Actual Books     17 May 2012, 4:25 am
38. If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?     17 May 2012, 3:48 am
39. If you’re seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware     17 May 2012, 3:47 am
40. SocialCam’s shady secret     17 May 2012, 3:47 am
41. How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’     17 May 2012, 3:34 am
42. ACTA deathwatch: profs call process unconstitutional, Europe revolts     17 May 2012, 2:26 am
43. How DNA Site 23andMe Outed Parents Who Gave Up Their First Baby     17 May 2012, 1:53 am
44. Cyber-intelligence bill sponsor silent on FBI push to wiretap social networks     17 May 2012, 1:13 am
45. Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality     17 May 2012, 1:04 am
46. Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ‘Right to Record’ Cops     16 May 2012, 5:01 pm
47. U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA’s Constitutionality – State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review     16 May 2012, 1:07 pm
48. Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind     16 May 2012, 10:15 am
49. Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It     16 May 2012, 7:22 am
50. GM Says Facebook Ads Don’t Work, Pulls $10 Million Account     16 May 2012, 5:02 am
51. Renouncing citizenship: Did Eduardo Saverin do anything wrong?     16 May 2012, 5:00 am
52. How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit     16 May 2012, 4:56 am
53. Banned PlayStation Hacker Sees Hope of Return in Jailbreaking Deliberations     16 May 2012, 3:30 am
54. ACLU Warns State Dept. Against Firing Worker Who Criticized Government     15 May 2012, 2:35 pm
55. Popular Surveillance Cameras Open to Hackers, Researcher Says     15 May 2012, 3:00 am
56. Dell Apologizes for Hiring ‘Shut Up Bitch’ Moderator     15 May 2012, 2:27 am
57. Google Shuts Down Conservative Blog     15 May 2012, 1:31 am
58. They’re Not ‘Orphan Works’, They’re ‘Hostage Works’     15 May 2012, 1:30 am
59. Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement     15 May 2012, 1:30 am
60. How to harden your smartphone against stalkers—Android edition     14 May 2012, 5:30 pm
61. TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week     14 May 2012, 4:06 pm
62. DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do     14 May 2012, 1:45 pm
63. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived     14 May 2012, 11:31 am
64. Yahoo chief executive steps down     14 May 2012, 4:35 am
65. Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life     14 May 2012, 3:30 am
66. Comic for May 14, 2012     13 May 2012, 10:00 pm
67. Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic     13 May 2012, 5:49 am
68. Dress code: blue tie and male     13 May 2012, 5:43 am
69. 700,000 CA social services records lost—on microfiche     12 May 2012, 8:00 pm
70. Does Thinking About God Improve Our Self-Control?     12 May 2012, 3:47 pm
71. Motorman: Britain’s other massive press scandal     12 May 2012, 2:56 pm
72. Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy     12 May 2012, 9:16 am
73. Why we need to keep talking about women in tech     12 May 2012, 7:15 am
74. Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Has Conflict of Interest     12 May 2012, 6:16 am
75. It’s OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it     11 May 2012, 12:34 pm
76. Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy     11 May 2012, 12:29 pm
77. How dumb court decisions made it impossible to sample like the Beastie Boys     11 May 2012, 11:19 am
78. The First Photograph     11 May 2012, 10:59 am
79. NY Twitter Decision Fails to Recognize Content and Location Data Require a Warrant     11 May 2012, 10:57 am
80. Facebook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship     11 May 2012, 9:49 am
81. Email ‘Vacations’ Decrease Stress, Increase Concentration     11 May 2012, 9:44 am
82. Despite State Oversight, Vote-Counting Errors Abound     11 May 2012, 9:42 am
83. And the Privacy Invasion Award Goes To …     11 May 2012, 9:32 am
84. Kinect Cameras Watch for Autism     11 May 2012, 9:29 am
85. Safeguarding East Germany’s Dark Past: Agency Chief Says Stasi Archive Should Stay Open     11 May 2012, 9:29 am
86. On Diaspora’s Social Network, You Own Your Data     11 May 2012, 8:44 am
87. The FBI took — and mysteriously returned — their server     11 May 2012, 6:02 am
88. My Doctor’s Office Asked Me To Lie     11 May 2012, 4:55 am
89. Insurance for All: Germans Can’t Fathom US Aversion to Obama’s Healthcare Reform     11 May 2012, 3:51 am
90. Chomsky – Jobs aren’t coming back     11 May 2012, 2:56 am
91. United Kingdom – Open letter to Members of Parliament on Internet surveillance     11 May 2012, 2:54 am
92. Video streaming & net neutrality     11 May 2012, 2:52 am
93. Cyber Briefings ‘Scare The Bejeezus’ Out Of CEOs     11 May 2012, 2:42 am
94. Mozilla: Microsoft bans Firefox on ARM-based Windows     11 May 2012, 2:36 am
95. In war for talent, ‘brogrammers’ will be losers     11 May 2012, 2:20 am
96. Unpaid Internships: Bad for Students, Bad for Workers, Bad for Society     11 May 2012, 2:20 am
97. Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends     11 May 2012, 2:12 am
98. Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders, FBI Admits     10 May 2012, 3:58 pm
99. California, Congress Move to Keep Facebook Passwords Private From Employers     10 May 2012, 2:57 pm
100. 3 days before elections, largest German state censors Pirate Party from the net     10 May 2012, 2:46 pm
101. Top U.S. Officer: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk     10 May 2012, 12:50 pm
102. When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed     10 May 2012, 10:49 am
103. EFF to Testify at Hearings on Expanding DMCA Exemptions for Jailbreaking and Video Remixing     10 May 2012, 10:35 am
104. Obama backs same-sex marriage     10 May 2012, 7:44 am
105. U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam     10 May 2012, 1:00 am
106. Apple Must Face Privacy Class Action over Smartphone Apps     10 May 2012, 12:53 am
107. USPTO Validates RPost’s Registered Email Patent     10 May 2012, 12:40 am
108. Myspace Settles With FTC Over Personal Data Privacy Charges     10 May 2012, 12:39 am
109. FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals     9 May 2012, 7:51 pm
110. Twitter Fights Back Against NY Judge’s Sweeping Order     9 May 2012, 3:10 pm
111. The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore     9 May 2012, 2:42 pm
112. Diabetic teen upset with TSA screeners at Salt Lake City Airport     9 May 2012, 2:28 pm
113. Revenge of the pirates: Anonymous downs Pirate Bay censor     9 May 2012, 2:25 pm
114. Searching the bottom of the web     9 May 2012, 2:21 pm
115. Illinois Barred From Enforcing Police Eavesdropping Law     9 May 2012, 1:48 pm
116. Law Professors Call for TPP Transparency     9 May 2012, 1:21 pm
117. Search Results Protected by First Amendment, Google-Funded Analysis Says     9 May 2012, 12:47 pm
118. Implanted User Interface Gives Patients New Options     9 May 2012, 9:49 am
119. The bulk of all human utterances is plagiarism     9 May 2012, 7:37 am
120. Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era     9 May 2012, 6:29 am
121. Queen’s Speech: Internet monitoring plan to have ‘strict safeguards’     9 May 2012, 6:21 am
122. New Defamation Bill ‘to protect freedom of speech’     9 May 2012, 5:08 am
123. Yahoo Board Member Out Over CEO’s Bogus Résumé     9 May 2012, 4:18 am
124. Argentine government setting agenda by using fake Twitter accounts     9 May 2012, 4:16 am
125. Study explains how retailers stop Linux from entering the market     9 May 2012, 4:16 am
126. Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality     9 May 2012, 4:12 am
127. I’m calling this Bubble 2.0, and it’s ready to burst     9 May 2012, 4:11 am
128. Out of Bulgaria and Romania: Wave of Immigrants Overwhelms German System     9 May 2012, 4:11 am
129. Laboring under the Nazis: German High Court to Address Ghetto Pensions     9 May 2012, 1:53 am
130. North Carolina bans gay marriages     9 May 2012, 1:46 am
131. Ten Thousand     8 May 2012, 9:00 pm
132. Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over ‘Occupy’ Order     8 May 2012, 3:45 pm
133. Pirates Beware: DVD Anti-Piracy Warning Now Twice as Fierce     8 May 2012, 3:45 pm
134. FTC Slaps Myspace for Privacy Breaches     8 May 2012, 12:36 pm
135. Writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak dies     8 May 2012, 12:35 pm
136. Principal Accused of Spying on Students, Parents With Fake Facebook Account     8 May 2012, 11:45 am
137. Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy on You     8 May 2012, 9:56 am
138. Count Roadkill From Your Bike for Science     8 May 2012, 9:32 am
139. TPP Exposed: a Video to Raise Awareness about the Agreement’s Secretive Negotiations     8 May 2012, 9:27 am
140. Database of Fallen Soldiers: Germany Still Locates 40,000 War Casualties a Year     8 May 2012, 9:10 am
141. The Great Outdoors Is Good for Allergies     8 May 2012, 8:00 am
142. UK Considering Requiring a License to View Porn     8 May 2012, 6:36 am
143. Dying to be thin: Anorexia in Japan     8 May 2012, 6:35 am
144. Have we got news for you: Iris scanners make the news     8 May 2012, 6:13 am
145. This Week in Transparency: Drones, Secret Surveillance, and Classifying the Wizard of Oz     8 May 2012, 1:12 am
146. This Week in Internet Censorship: A Resignation in the Palestinian Authority, China Tries to Make a Blind Man Disappear, and Vietnam Prepares to Attack Anonymous Speech     7 May 2012, 10:45 pm
147. Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA     7 May 2012, 8:19 pm
148. Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanner ‘Vulnerabilities’     7 May 2012, 3:45 pm
149. Congress Funds Killer Drones the Air Force Says It Can’t Handle     7 May 2012, 1:52 pm
150. Americans’ Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day in Court     7 May 2012, 1:17 pm
151. Oracle v. Google and the Dangerous Implications of Treating APIs as Copyrightable     7 May 2012, 12:52 pm
152. Good Citizenship for Online Service Providers: Let’s Not Let the DailyKos Takedown Be a Preview of the 2012 Campaign Season     7 May 2012, 11:23 am
153. Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business?     7 May 2012, 9:48 am
154. Kroes Throws in Towel on ACTA     7 May 2012, 4:04 am
155. The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps     7 May 2012, 3:58 am
156. Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste     7 May 2012, 3:49 am
157. EFF Urges Appeals Court to Protect Forums Allowing Users to Speak Online     7 May 2012, 12:14 am
158. Every Major’s Terrible     6 May 2012, 9:00 pm
159. Leave only footprints: how Google’s ethical ignorance gets it in trouble     6 May 2012, 1:22 pm
160. Google Could Face $10 Million Fine For Tracking Safari Users     6 May 2012, 8:45 am
161. Reddit’s TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA’s daddy     6 May 2012, 8:39 am
162. Nightclub security uses Facebook for identification     6 May 2012, 8:27 am
163. The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability?     6 May 2012, 7:47 am
164. Elsevier’s recent update to its letter to the mathematical community     6 May 2012, 7:38 am
165. Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments     6 May 2012, 7:35 am
166. Google Argues Authors’ Group Lacks Standing in Copyright Suit     4 May 2012, 10:14 pm
167. Make Every Day a Day Against DRM     4 May 2012, 2:35 pm
168. FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites     4 May 2012, 12:22 pm
169. DOJ Official: Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking     4 May 2012, 12:19 pm
170. Day Against DRM     4 May 2012, 10:20 am
171. UK to science publishers: don’t follow recording industry down the tubes     4 May 2012, 10:17 am
172. As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM     4 May 2012, 10:06 am
173. DRM-Free Day, forever.     4 May 2012, 10:06 am
174. Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement     4 May 2012, 10:04 am
175. B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking'     4 May 2012, 10:04 am
176. Taps and Rhythms Replace Keyboard Shortcuts     4 May 2012, 10:02 am
177. Twitter Cannot Predict Elections Either     4 May 2012, 10:00 am
178. Echoes of News Corp. in the FCC’s Report on Google Street View     4 May 2012, 5:05 am
179. Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree     4 May 2012, 4:33 am
180. Google’s Fiber Makes MPAA Skittish.     4 May 2012, 3:45 am
181. Judge Alsup asks Oracle/Google to brief API issue in light of new EU ruling     4 May 2012, 3:36 am
182. May 04, 2012     3 May 2012, 9:00 pm
183. Malicious apps hosted in Google store turn Android phones into zombies     3 May 2012, 5:45 pm
184. Unsealed Court Records Confirm that RIAA Delays Were Behind Year-Long Seizure of Hip Hop Music Blog     3 May 2012, 4:42 pm
185. World Press Freedom Day: The U.S. Must Lead By Example     3 May 2012, 4:22 pm
186. The EU Cookie Law     3 May 2012, 9:39 am
187. Why CISPA is a threat to the world     3 May 2012, 9:36 am
188. Macho cultures are fairer for women     3 May 2012, 9:35 am
189. Religious Sites are Worst for Malware, Report Finds     3 May 2012, 9:33 am
190. Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)     3 May 2012, 5:08 am
191. Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index     3 May 2012, 4:25 am
192. Getting Beaten by a Voting Bot in 50 Minutes     3 May 2012, 3:48 am
193. Reddit: Where women strip for Internet money     3 May 2012, 3:43 am
194. Bronze Age Espionage: Did Ancient Germans Steal the Pharaoh’s Chair Design?     3 May 2012, 3:40 am
195. ISPs Improve Their DNS Hijacking And How To Stop It     3 May 2012, 3:37 am
196. Comic for May 3, 2012     2 May 2012, 10:00 pm
197. Special 301 Report 2012: The USTR’s Bogus List of Countries That “Don’t Enforce” Copyrights     2 May 2012, 4:49 pm
198. 2007 raids on console mod-chippers result in indictments nearly 5 years later     1 May 2012, 9:55 am
199. Release of exploit code puts Oracle Database users at risk of attack     30 April 2012, 1:35 pm
200. 90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find     26 April 2012, 1:15 pm

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