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Team Human – Douglas Rushkoff @ Virtual Futures Salon
In the latest, and probably one of the most exciting, installations of Virtual Futures Luke Robert Mason meets Douglas Rushkoff to discuss…
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The ghost in the machine – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the net.wars column on June 16th, 2017 Humans are a problem in decision-making. We have prejudices based on limited…
Read More » Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain
Originally published on techdirt.com Back in November 2015, we wrote about a bad situation in Germany, where a museum in Mannheim was…
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The bad guys are not constrained by the law. That’s why they’re bad guys.
Q&A: Internet extremism and how to combat it By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writer published on Sunday, 4 Jun 2017 DETROIT (AP) —…
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Why Theresa May is wrong to weaken encryption
Conservative plans for Internet clampdown are a distraction Open Rights Group has responded to Theresa May’s post-election hints that she will continue…
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The power of privacy – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“It’s about power.” Because humans like to count in handfuls, this year’s Privacy Law Scholars, the tenth, kicked off with a panel…
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Tech firms: We’re trying to make our sites hostile to terrorists
by KELLY FIVEASH original published on arstechnica.com Facebook, Twitter, and Google react to UK prime minister’s call to limit encryption In the aftermath of…
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Facebook ‘misled’ EU on how creepy buying WhatsApp would be
Originally by Oliver Smith for The Memo In 2014 Facebook spent a whopping $19bn buying everyone’s favourite chat app, WhatsApp. The deal…
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Hate week – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on May 26th, 2007 When, say ten years from now, someone leaks the set of rules by which…
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