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FOI Topics and Links of the Week

June 6th, 2011  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, censorship, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, privacy  |  Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week

IR-transmitted metadata. Last week, Apple filed for a patent on an iOS camera that can detect infrared in addition to visible light. If a user aims the camera at an object that is sending out additional information about that object in the IR band, the camera transmits that information to the device, and potentially also […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

May 5th, 2011  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, news, privacy  |  2 Comments

Smartphone tracking data. Two researchers reported last month that Apple has been storing time-stamped location information on users’ iOS devices since June. An unencrypted file with these data is saved onto a user’s computer each time she syncs her device with it, as well. Apple appears to have good reasons for collecting the location information, […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

August 10th, 2010  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, Generativity, privacy, wikipedia  |  2 Comments

Game on. A featureless update released recently by TI blocks a hack that allowed owners to write their own programs for the company’s Nspire calculator. It’s not immediately obvious what rationale TI used to justify the block. It isn’t under pressure to protect the commercial interests of a partner service provider. And worst case, a […]

Facebook’s ocean of names becomes a torrent

July 28th, 2010  |  by z  |  published in cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, privacy  |  3 Comments

Nick Bilton over at the NYT Bits Blog has the story of Internet security consultant Ronald Bowes’s recent Facebook caper.  Ron noticed that Facebook has a directory of its users, just like the old Bell Telephone White Pages.  I agree with Ron’s assessment that this is a very little-noticed feature: normally one searches on Facebook […]

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Last week from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I mean, points 2 and 3 don’t even make any sense! How would anyone know if a cited article has been read, and by whom? Did they survey readers and ask them? And does it add up that 50% of all articles (whether cited or not) aren’t read, while *80%* of cited articles aren’t read? pic.twitter.com/876e4vfdJ0

About 3 weeks ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I guess it’s fitting that the eye-opening statistics here are sourced to a news article that in turn cites to a non-peer-reviewed op-ed that in turn cites to … nothing, with no methodology for how these numbers are arrived at. Truly no real basis (so far) to believe them.

About 3 weeks ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@byrdinator @MattGlassman312 Fascinating. Would these amendments be entertained before or after any conferencing with the Senate to reconcile differences? If after, there’s danger of infinite amendment loops. If not, won’t the few members in conference get the last word before a final up-or-down vote?

Last month from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@bendreyfuss It does happen every so often. This incident was so brazen that Congress later reversed the provision. The staffer who quietly put the amendment in is now the CEO of the RIAA. salon.com/2000/08/28/wor… pic.twitter.com/mAW3InOECq

Last month from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone



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