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Internet

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity

05-01-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Steven Levy

No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat.

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‘Dark Wallet’ Is About to Make Bitcoin Money Laundering Easier Than Ever

05-01-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg

Government regulators around the world have spent the last year scrambling to prevent bitcoin from becoming the currency of choice for money launderers and black marketeers. Now their worst fears may be about to materialize in a single piece of softw

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Google stung by Canada’s privacy commissioner for ads linked to personal health history

05-01-2014 • vancouversun.com

Search giant says it’s working to resolve the problem

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Startups Experiment with Ads That Know How You Drive

05-01-2014 • Technologyreview.com

A mobile ad company plans to offer deals based on data collected from in-car apps.

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‘Dark Wallet’ Is About to Make Bitcoin Money Laundering Easier Than Ever

04-30-2014 • Wired.com

Government regulators around the world have spent the last year scrambling to prevent bitcoin from becoming the currency of choice for money launderers and black marketeers.

Internet

The White House Wants to Issue You an Online ID

04/29/2014 • http://therawfeedlive.com

A few years back, the White House had a brilliant idea: Why not create a single, secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites, starting with local government services. The New York Times described it at

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Stefan Molyneux's youtube account deleted?

04-29-2014 • Daily Paul.com

Is it just something going on with my computer or has his youtube channel really been deleted?

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BANNED FROM YOUTUBE

04-29-2014 • youtube

Stefan Molyneux discusses the recent and unexplained disabling of the Freedomain Radio YouTube channel.

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New internet laws may let US charge more for faster delivery

04-28-2014 • timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to propose new internet rules that would allow internet service providers to charge content companies for faster delivery of their services over the so-called "last mile" connection to people's homes

Internet

Bitcoin Internet: The Plan for a Decentralized Web that Runs on Cryptocurrency

04-26-2014 • motherboard.vice.com

The core defining aspect of Bitcoin—and other cryptocurrencies arising in its wake—is decentralisation.

Internet

Brazil's internet gets groundbreaking bill of rights

04-25-2014 • newscientist.com

Brazil's internet now has its own bill of rights. On 23 April, the country's president, Dima Rousseff, signed the Marco Civil da Internet, a bill that sets out new guidelines for freedom of expression, net neutrality and data privacy for the country'

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Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize

04-25-2014 • Wired.com

The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site’s lucrative drug trade, still offered its enemies a single point of failure.

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Poorer Countries Stand to Miss Out on the Big Data Boom

04-25-2014 • Technologyreview.com

Ranking countries by their “networked readiness” reveals a major geopolitical digital divide.

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F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad

04-24-2014 • New York Times

An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites, including some operated by the governments of Iran, Syria, Brazil and Pakistan, according to documents and interviews with

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ACLU steps in after Justice Dept. slaps gag orders on Twitter and Yahoo

04-23-2014 • TechDirt

The ACLU has jumped into a troubling legal fight, in which it appears that the DOJ has issued gag orders against Twitter and Yahoo concerning grand jury subpoenas that have been sent to both companies.

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Putin Has Taken Control Of Russian Facebook

04-23-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Jim Edwards

Russian president Vladimir Putin has essentially taken control of VKontakte, the home-grown Russian social network which is that country's version of Facebook.

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Beijing shuts down thousands of websites in online pornography purge

04-22-2014 • http://www.independent.co.uk,

State media reports that thousands of websites and social media accounts containing obscene material have been shutdown

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Vkontakte Founder Flees Russia, Claims Persecution

04-22-2014 • themoscowtimes.com, By Yekaterina Kravtsova

Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia’s largest social networking website, fled the country on Tuesday, a day after he said he was forced out as the company’s CEO for refusing to share users’ personal data with Russian law enforcement agencies.

Internet

The Online Video Ecosystem Explained...

04-22-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com,

The Online Video Ecosystem Explained — Who Holds The Real Power In Video Streaming?

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'Avengers' Director Joss Whedon Releases His New Movie On Venmo For $5

04-22-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Lucas Shaw

Joss Whedon will rent “In Your Eyes,” a movie he wrote and executive produced, directly from the movie's website, joining the growing list of filmmakers who have experimented with self-distribution.

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Eyefi launches its own "unlimited" Cloud storage service

04-21-2014 • gizmag.com

In 2007, Mountain View's Eyefi (formerly Eye-Fi) was the first to release an SD memory card that gave compatible digital cameras the ability to transfer images wirelessly to computers over Wi-Fi.

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1995 Memo: Clinton Admin Feared Internet's Ability to Democratize News 3 Years Before...

04-21-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by BarracudaTrader

1995 Memo: Clinton Admin Feared Internet's Ability to Democratize News 3 Years Before Drudge Bombshell

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Peoria Mayor Sends Police to Track Down Twitter Parodist

04-21-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by JO4RP

Politicians can be a thin-skinned bunch. You'd think they'd let insults roll off their backs given how much power they have over the lives and livelihoods of others. But if you have all that power, why bother letting insults roll of your back when yo

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Number of cable ‘cord cutters’ continues to rise

04-21-2014 • http://rt.com,

TV and movie audiences have known for years that streaming services provide an on-demand viewing experience, but a new report has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Hulu and Netflix are now a legitimate threat for traditional cable companies.

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US Government Is Paying To Undermine Internet Security, Not To Fix It

04-18-2014 • http://www.techdirt.com, by Julia Angwin

from the bleeding-heart-security dept

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Twitter parody account holder sought in police raid

04-17-2014 • ars technica

Don't mock the Mayor Jim Ardis of Peoria as you just might be jailed and fined. Illinois police seized computers and mobile phones while raiding a house whose owner was suspected of parodying the town mayor on Twitter. In all, 5 people were seized