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Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
This is from May but I’m a bit behind in some of my reading. However it is worth every moment you’ll spend reading it. A great deal of confusion has been created by the distinction between data and...
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Update now: Adobe Digital Editions secured data transfers
Adobe came under fire a few weeks ago when news was brought to light that critical user data was being sent to their servers from anyone using Adobe Digital Editions 4. The most important aspect of...
View ArticleFriday Video: Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden at Harvard Law School on Oct. 20. The post Friday Video: Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden appeared first on The...
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Why Librarians Are Defending Your Right to Watch Porn at the Library
The ALA published a report investigating the use of filters and found they were disproportionately blocking out left-leaning views on issues such as gay marriage and abortion. LGBT community websites...
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NYC theater overrules MPAA rating for Snowden documentary
I saw Citizenfour last weekend and I’m at a loss as to why this film was rated R. At least one theatre felt the same and did something about it: Citizenfour, the acclaimed Laura Poitras documentary...
View ArticleSecuring Yourself with LastPass
Here’s the video of my LastPass presentation from the Nebraska Library Association Conference presented on 10 October 2014. The post Securing Yourself with LastPass appeared first on The Travelin'...
View ArticleLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance
There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy...
View ArticleFriday Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption
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View ArticleFriday Video: Phil Zimmermann: “Communications Security”| Talks at Google
Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP and Silent Phone is our guest at Google, talking about communications security. How large scale deployments of end-to-end secure communications take place, the...
View ArticleFacebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to look as they get older)....
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