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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 […]

(Western) Internet Censorship Providers

April 25th, 2011  |  by jennifer  |  published in filtering, opennet initiative  |  2 Comments

Last month the OpenNet Initiative published a report that shines light on one of the more sensitive business practices of Western Internet security and filtering companies. These companies – including McAfee (an Intel subsidiary), Websense, and Netsweeper – promote their filtering technologies in the West as tools for parents and schools trying to shield children […]

Blackberry-22

August 3rd, 2010  |  by z  |  published in blackberry, cloud, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet  |  8 Comments

“Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands?” Orr sniggered again. “I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every […]

Google takes on China

January 12th, 2010  |  by z  |  published in filtering, Future of the Internet  |  33 Comments

Google announced today that it would cease (well, phase out) censoring the results in google.cn, the Chinese-language version of its famed search engine.  It’s a pretty stunning move, both in its fact and in its execution.  First, the announcement of “A new approach to China” may appear to have buried the lede.  The lion’s share […]

The sentence the UN doesn’t want you to see

November 15th, 2009  |  by z  |  published in censorship, filtering  |  4 Comments

“The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous ‘Great Firewall of China’ is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.” That’s it.  Its presence on a poster advertising the OpenNet Initiative’s academic book Access Controlled was enough to deem it prohibited by UN security forces […]

New OpenNet Report on Iran

June 16th, 2009  |  by z  |  published in filtering, Future of the Internet, opennet initiative  |  1 Comment

We’ve just released our OpenNet Initiative 2009 study of Internet censorship in Iran, including new data from the most recent rounds of testing there.  We’ll try to augment some of the findings there with data coming in over the past few days, including reports to the Herdict Web network blockage tool. If you’re finding there […]

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An illuminating exchange between @joshtpm and @jacklgoldsmith on the complications around prosecuting the 45th President. twitter.com/jacklgoldsmith…

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Hard to see why a test-taker should have to pay a fee for something like this. Either it’s a sensible option to offer or it isn’t. twitter.com/barexamtutor/s…

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@ThePlumLineGS Hard to gauge Penceworld strategery, but your larger point rings true: many who defend Trump's behavior ultimately have zero concept of public service. They assume all exercise of power is solely to win against opponents who would be equally ruthless and self-serving in power.

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@ThePlumLineGS Hi - Jack was assistant AG at DOJ, heading up its Office of Legal Counsel. A separate post from White House Counsel, fwiw.

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@zeynep How to tell how much of any of it is bot-driven?

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