Category: Tales from the Net
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Patriot Act renewal: building on an unexpected victory (DRAFT!)
Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome! Talk about a shocker! 24 Republicans (including 8 new members) joined with 124 Democrats to stand up for civil liberties and defeat an attempt to sneak Patriot Act Reauthorization through the House. Here’s what EFF, Wired, and the Washington Post have to say about this unexpected victory. Thanks to…
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Patriot Act renewal: Time to make some noise. Fortunately, there’s an app for that!
Key provisions of the Patriot Act will sunset unless Congress renews them by the end of February. Time to make some noise. Fortunately, there’s an app for that!
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Time to celebrate!
November was such a busy month that I didn’t do any journalling. But now, with the draft of g0ddesses.net wrapped up, it seems like a good time start up again. So … Wow, what a month. I wrote a novel! Well, at least a draft of one … 75,000 words. g0ddesses.net needs a lot of…
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Imagine this … (DRAFT!)
DRAFT !!!! Â Revised version published on I Will Opt Out as What Just Happened? For more discussion of Opt Out Day and what’s next, please see We Won’t Fly, Fly With Dignity, I Will Opt Out, and FlyerTalk
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What Diaspora can learn about security from Microsoft
Back in April, four NYU students decided to raise money to spend the summer hacking on their project: a privacy-friendly open source social network. They put up a page on Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site. Talk about being in the right place at the right time: after a great article Four nerds and a cry…
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Diaspora: what next?
It was a summer to remember for the founders of Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social network”. Talk about being in the right place at the right time … Back in the firestorm about Facebook privacy last May, the four NYU students raised $200,000 for their project on Kickstarter. Since then they’ve moved to…
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Emoware: What does “emotional software” feel like?
I was intrigued. So I checked it out, and talked with Cindy, experience design goddess Oonie Chase and superhero Giovanna Mingarelli. Now I’m even more intrigued — and very impressed.
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Privacy and social networks: a grassroots social network activist’s perspective
Social network sites epitomize the wave of the future, Obama’s strength in 2008, and youth. Â They’re overwhelmingly in favor of civil liberties. Â And civil liberties supporters are getting organized there. — Social network activism and the future of civil liberties, originally published on Pam’s House Blend At the annual privacy coalition meeting in Washington DC,…
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Can Skittles help fix the PATRIOT Act and FISA? (DRAFT!)
DRAFT! Final version published on The Seminal.