June 6th, 2011 |
by jennifer |
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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 […]
November 30th, 2010 |
by jennifer |
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censorship, Future of the Internet | Comments Off on Uniflow is watching
Several weeks ago, Canon announced that the latest version of its document management system, Uniflow 5, features a new security tool that allows a company to prevent its employees from printing, scanning, copying or faxing documents that contain keywords such as client or project names. The Uniflow server identifies prohibited keywords, which are designated by […]
October 18th, 2010 |
by jennifer |
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Android, blackberry, censorship, cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone | 1 Comment
T-Mobile gives its G2 Droid amnesia. The G2s appearing on T-Mobile shelves this week come with an extra piece of hardware, and it’s not a free car charger. If G2 owners teach their Droids (either by coding or downloading software) to do something that interferes with T-Mobile’s business model, the company-installed rootkit will induce short-term […]
June 1st, 2010 |
by jennifer |
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Android, censorship, cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, kindle, news | 1 Comment
Google launches Government Requests tool. Google is now making public information on the requests it receives from government agents to remove content from its search results or reveal private user data. The Government Requests tool currently displays the number and type of requests by country for the last six months of 2009. In a bit […]
February 16th, 2010 |
by elisabeth |
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censorship, iphone, Web 2.0 platforms | Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week
AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App. Gagan Biyani raves about AppMakr, a product that allows anyone to make a simple RSS-based iPhone app for $199. The company will even submit the app to the App Store. (So, for instance, Biyani put together an app that aggregates all of […]
January 27th, 2010 |
by elisabeth |
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censorship, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, kindle, ubicomp | 3 Comments
The Extraordinaries Haiti Earthquake Support Center. A followup post on the Extraordinaries’ efforts to use ubiquitous human computing to help find missing people after the Haiti earthquake — a positive vision inspired by JZ’s nightmare scenario of crowdsourced secret police work. Did they succeed? “Yes and no”—but, as they detail, there’s obvious potential for future […]
November 15th, 2009 |
by zittrain |
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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 […]
