Why Facebook Is Losing U.S. Users
• www.pcmag.comHas the world's No. 1 social network finally peaked in its home country?
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Cyber Vandals Breach Senate Website
• http://slatest.slate.com/Same group that hacked PBS claiming Tupac is alive takes on the government.
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Even Bill Clinton Knows It's Over!
• http://www.lewrockwell.com/Bill Clinton – the examplar of truth in modern America – has proposed the establishment of a government "ministry of truth" – to be run by either the United States government or the United Nations
US Government Backs Suitcase-Sized "Shadow Internet" to Battle Censorship
• http://www.popsci.com/The United States is developing what the New York Times is calling “shadow internet” – a prototype network that can fit into a suitcase and be carried across state borders to provide political dissidents with...
Google Censorship Initiative Thwarted by ‘Gee! No Evil!’ Add-On
• torrentfreak.comEarlier this year Google launched a piracy blacklist and began filtering keywords from its Instant and Autocomplete services. A necessary measure to counter online copyright infringement according to the search giant, but not everyone agrees.
ICE Declares 'Mission Accomplished' On Domain Seizures
• TechDirtIt appears that assistant deputy director of ICE, Erik Barnett, is going around talking up the massive success of ICE's potentially illegal domain seizure regime. He bragged in Stockholm about how successful the program has been, making a series of q
‘Anonymous’ targets Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke
• http://www.rawstory.com/The most well-known hacker group, Anonymous, uploaded a video message to youtube yesterday calling for Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to resign, among other things. It's embedded below.
$150 Spy Glasses Transmit Video In Real Time To the Social Network (video)
• .Ever since True Lies I’ve been waiting for an affordable pair of spy glasses that can transmit video in real time. My wait looks like it may be over very soon. Seattle startup ZionEyez is building momentum to launch their Eyez video recording glasses
Are the Bilderbergs Plotting to Control the Internet?
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comAfter a quick glance at this year's Bilderberg attendee list, it is not difficult to surmise that a key focus of the elitists is the internet. PEU Report has pulled the names of those directly tied to the internet industry that were invited...
UK Cabinet Office talks to Facebook about new ID system
• theregister.co.ukA Cabinet Office spokeswoman confirmed to us this morning that the department was speaking to "a range of industry" about its ID assurance scheme, a prototype for which is expected in October this year.
Huffington Post traffic surpasses NYTimes.com
• RawStory.comThe Huffington Post received more traffic than the website of The New York Times in May, the first time it has surpassed NYTimes.com in unique visitors, tracking firm comScore said Thursday.
Bradley Manning activist subpoenaed in WikiLeaks investigation
• Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.comA computer expert and vocal supporter of the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks has been served a subpoena compelling his testimony in the Grand Jury investigation of the leaked documents.
Iceland's Citizens Are Writing Its New Constitution Online
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comIn the 18th century, if you wanted to draft a democratic constitution you crowded a handful of men into a room and hashed out the finer points of policy and philosophy until you had a document that was declared the law of the land.
Facebook in new privacy row over facial recognition feature
• www.guardian.co.ukSocial network turns on new feature to automatically identify people in photos, raising questions about privacy implications of the service
Internet Censorship Bill Introduced
Stephen LendmanOnline censorship
Can Google Know Where the Gmail Attack Came from?
• Erica Naone via PopSci.comThe company blames China, but none of the evidence is definitive—which is the nature of such attacks.
A Big Test for New Internet Addresses
• Kristina Bjoran via TechnologyReview.comWhy Google, Facebook, and others are taking part in World IPv6 Day this week.
Arabic Social Startup Stays Local
• http://www.technologyreview.com/d1g.com shows the value of building a social networking site around local customs.
China calls US culprit in global 'Internet war'
• MyWay.comThe Chinese military accused the U.S. on Friday of launching a global "Internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments, redirecting the spotlight away from allegations of major online attacks on Western targets originating in China. The a
Worldwide Copyright Gestapo: Senate Seeks to Make Embedding Videos A Felony
• InfoWars.com/According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison.
Sarkozy: The internet shouldn't be "a parallel universe outside laws and morals"
• computeractive.co.ukThe internet shouldn't be "a parallel universe outside laws and morals," he said, adding that now "the internet is an integral part of most people's lives, it would be contradictory to exclude governments".
IP Czar and White House Seek To Make illegal Streaming A Felony
• arstechnica.com/At issue is a proposal from the IP Enforcement Czar, backed by the White House, to upgrade illegal online streaming from a misdemeanor to a felony. The government currently treats unauthorized reproductions and distributions as potential felonies...
Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony
• Kurt NimmoTechdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes – may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.
The Pentagon Has a Classified List of Cyber Weapons Approved for Cyber Warfare
• http://www.popsci.com/More news on the cyber warfare front today as more details leak out about the Pentagon’s ongoing efforts to produce a cyber operation framework.
War on The Internet: The Four Key Fronts
• crikey.com.auIt’s a fully-fledged war on the internet. It is fought across multiple fronts, as governments respond to the threat posed by their citizens connecting up with one another and with citizens of other states. And it is being fought in the US, the EU...
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Plan to Filter the Internet
• zeropaid.com/PROTECT IP Act would give the Department of Justice the power to force ISPs and search engines to block access to infringing sites. Bill now moves forward to a full vote by the Senate.
Pentagon Declares Cyber Combat An Act of War
• online.wsj.comThe Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.
Sarkozy's G8 and the Internet: Trying to Break the Creative Spirit Of Freedom
• siliconrepublic.comIf Oscar Wilde had been able to see the president of France going on last week about bringing the internet to heel, he might have updated his hunting metaphor to "the clueless in pursuit of the unattainable" perhaps.
Sarkozy's G8 Summit Seeks A Censored and Centralized Internet
• boingboing.net/As a host of the G8, France's Nicolas Sarkozy wants to step up centralized control over the Internet. He has convened world leaders to a summit aimed at working towards a 'civilized Internet' a concept he borrowed from the Chinese government.
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