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I am reading “In the Plex”, the book on Google’s development + special brand of ideological Kool-aid, by Steven Levy. An interviewee pointed out that we the citizenry…
Nerd Diplomacy: Google’s Foreign Policy In early 2010, when Google had decided to pull out of the China market, there was a brief window of discourse in which…
AP’s Probe Into NYPD Intelligence Operations This is the collection of all the Associated Press’ stories about NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims all along the Eastern Seaboard. They find…
I am fumbling around, trying to figure out the Internet in Turkey. It has quite the reputation, having blocked YouTube on-and-off for several years, along with WordPress, Blogger,…
There is a team putting together a new platform in which people who work on human trafficking can link up, join forces, and share resources. Interested? Go look…
A 2 page comic on Drones + Privacy.
Apps to Stop Human Trafficking — from NetHope & USAID challenge last summer (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
SlaveFree is an app that lets you scan any product in a store, to see if slave labor likely was used in its production. Slavery Footprint is an…
Out of USC, a September 2011 report “Human Trafficking Online” by Mark Latonero on the role of online social networks in human trafficking. It shows the darker side of…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication is convening actors who are working to use technology to address human trafficking. Some of the projects: From the Center on Communication…
Ethan Zuckerman writes that one way to better protect human rights’ activists content online is by making sure their content is on the same platform/site as the Cute…
What countries in the world are best at providing your online data from governments and from companies? I’m trying to find an excellent map showing where the best…
How the Stop Online Privacy Act works — and why you should tell your Senator to oppose it.
How cookies work online, from visual.ly
A study from Aleecia McDonald and Lorrie Cranor, from Carnegie Mellon, explaining how people can easily get confused about who is tracking them online, what information is…
Where all the Trackers Know Your Name Jonathan Mayer, at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, explains how online trackers get sent personally identifiable information…
How can you keep users aware of the privacy choices of their browsing? There’s a new crop of visual tools that let the Internet-user see who is…
Mitchell Baker of Mozilla speaks at the Access conference, 10/26/2011 in SF, on Silicon Valley and Human Rights
A new social network has come out of Florida, with mom Natasha Dedis at its helm, to let users choose what ads are shown on their network, and…
As designers increasingly take on social problems abroad as thier own wicked problems to design solutions for, the same questions that have been troubling development specialists for the…
Arvind Narayanan used the example of LiveJournal to scout out some features which could be built into social networks to allow greater control over sharing and privacy. First:…
More ideas for using tech to improve human rights of political detainees… This is one of my ideas, to create an easy software platform to make ‘human rights…
Making Policy Public brings designers, advocates and policy makers together to produce clear visions of how government, law, and policy work. This PDF provides immigrants with clear…
One of my submissions for Amnesty Intl/OpenIdeo’s call for ideas on – How Can Technology help people working to uphold human rights of in the face of unlawful…
Swedish Development Agency: Internet & Democratic Change The conference will happen on October 26, 2011 — and will be broadcast over the Internet. The topic is net activism,…
