Category «Internet»

UK Guardian: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

“Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Mail, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Microsoft, Patriot Act, Privacy

EPIC Files Supreme Court Petition, Challenges Domestic Surveillance Program

“EPIC has filed a Petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court vacate an unlawful order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that enables the collection of all domestic phone record by the NSA. The order, directed to Verizon, requires the production of all “call detail records” for calls made “wholly within the United …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Developing Online Safety Knowledge in Partnership with Parents and Schools

Parents, Schools and the Digital Divide – Developing Online Safety Knowledge in Partnership with Parents and Schools, Professor Andy Phippen, Professor of Social, Responsibility in IT, Plymouth University. July 2013 “Technology and the online world undoubtedly play a large part in the majority of young people’s lives. It is rare to encounter young people who …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Commerce, Education, Internet, PC Security, Privacy

Now Free – Vital Statistics on Congress

“That essential Congressional reference book, American Enterprise Institute/Brookings’ Vital Statistics on Congress is now free and online – as downloadable Excel & PDF files.” [via Jennifer Manning]

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet

Google – A few easy tools the whole family will love

“Summer is here, and with kids out of school it is a great time for families to explore the web together—from learning what makes fireflies glow to playing online games together. But while there is a lot of entertaining, educational content online, there are also materials I’d rather not see when I’m surfing the web …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines

New GAO Reports – Defense Acquisition Workforce, Electronic Drug Labeling, Internet Pharmacies, Investment Advisers, TARP

Defense Acquisition Workforce – The Air Force Needs to Evaluate Changes in Funding for Civilians Engaged in Space Acquisition, GAO-13-638, Jul 8, 2013 Electronic Drug Labeling – No Consensus on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Its Exclusive Use, GAO-13-592, Jul 8, 2013 Internet Pharmacies – Federal Agencies and States Face Challenges Combating Rogue Sites, Particularly …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Government Documents, Internet

DRAFT Outline – Preliminary Framework to Reduce Cyber Risks to Critical Infrastructure

DRAFT Outline – Preliminary Framework to Reduce Cyber Risks to Critical Infrastructure, National Institute of Standards and Technology, July 1, 2013. “The national and economic security of the United States depends on the reliable functioning of critical infrastructure. President Obama issued an Executive Order on February 12, 2013, to strengthen that infrastructure against cybersecurity threats. In …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Internet

Gallup – TV Is Americans’ Main Source of News

Gallup news release: “Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%. Nine percent say newspapers or other print publications are their main news source, followed by radio, at 6%..”

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Library of Congress – A New Look for Legal Blawg Archive

“For more than six years, the Law Library of Congress has been collecting images of select legal blogs on a monthly basis. The Legal Blawg Archive was created so that the legal events detailed and analyzed in the blogs of today can be studied for years to come. Now this archive is available in an updated user interface …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

Pew – 6% of Online Adults are reddit Users

6% of Online Adults are reddit Users by Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith – July 3, 2013 “Six percentof online adults are reddit users, according to a nationally representative survey by thePewResearch Center’s Internet & American Life Project. This is our first survey that specifically examines reddit as a standalone platform, and it finds that young …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Commentary – Creative destruction, government snooping: Is the Internet worth it?

Salon – We can’t “repeal the Internet.” But it has unleashed scary forces — and reasons for a Silicon Valley backlash, By Andrew Leonard “There is new evidence, every day, of the mixed blessings delivered by the Internet. Just to pick one example from current headlines: The vast advances in government surveillance capability that we’ve …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Patriot Act, Privacy

FCC Grants Google, Inc.’s TV Bands Database System for Operation

FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Announces the Approval of Google, Inc.’s TV Bands Database System for Operation ET Docket No. 04-186, June 28, 2013 “The Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) announces that it has granted approval for Google, Inc. to operate its “TV bands database system” to provide service to the public. …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Search Engines

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