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Surrender to Surveillance – Virtual Futures Salon
Virtual Futures presents a discussion on technologies of surveillance, the infringements on privacy by the state, restrictions of individual freedom…
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Policy questions for 2022 – Net.wars by Wendy Grossman
For last weekend’s OpenTech I had recklessly suggested imagining the Daily Mail headlines of the future. Come to actually plan…
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Google’s You Tube rating illusion – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelican crossing.net on the net.wars column Before there was the internet there were commercial information services and…
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Google vs book authors as Fair Use bites – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.com This week, the veteran screenwriter Ken Levine started a thread on outdated terms in…
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Nu Web – what is to be done? Tim Berners-Lee on Internet regulatory ‘blind spots’ and political advertising scams
Originally published on March 12, 2017 Today is the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from our founder…
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What is next for tech journalism? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.com on the Net.Wars column Yesterday in Cambridge, the veteran journalist Charles Arthur held an eventat the Centre for Research in…
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Originally published on pelicancrossing.net The late Simon Hoggart once wrote that the reason to take the trouble to debunk apparently…
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The illusion of sovereignty – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In the mid 1990s, John Perry Barlow, who later (1996) fleshed out his thinking in A Declaration of the Independence of…
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