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Amid recent reports that security researchers have experienced difficulties at the United States border after traveling abroad, we realized that it's been awhile since we last discussed how to safeguard electronic devices and digital information during border searches. So just in time for holiday travel and the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, here's EFF's guide for protecting your devices and sensitive data at the United States border. The Government Has Broad Legal Authority to Search Laptops, Phones, Cameras, and Other Devices at the U.S. Border. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable government searches and seizures.
s Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford | Science | guardian.co.uk
I wrote these 25 commandments as a panic response 15 or more years ago to an invitation to do some media training for a group of Elsevier editors. I began compiling them because I had just asked myself what was the most important thing to remember about writing a story, and the answer came back loud and clear: "To make somebody read it." Ultimately, there's no other reason for writing. Journalists write to support democracy, sustain truth, salute justice, justify expenses, see the world and make a living, but to satisfactorily do any of these things you have to have readers. Fairness and accuracy are of course profoundly important. Without them, you aren't in journalism proper: you are playing some other game.
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If you read the literature on journalism’s professional ideology – or just follow any argument about journalists-versus-the-rest-of-the-world – you’ll notice particular themes recurring. Like any profession, journalism separates itself from other fields of work through articulating how it is different . Reading Mark Deuze’s book Media Work recently I was struck by how a similar, parallel, ideology is increasingly articulated by bloggers.
Culture Clash: Journalism?s ideology vs blog culture | Online Journalism Blog
Why Facebook Is Not the Cure For Bad Comments: Tech News and Analysis «
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about Facebook-powered comments , which have been implemented at a number of major blogs and other publishers (including here at GigaOM) over the past couple of weeks. Supporters argue that using Facebook comments cuts down on “trolling” and other forms of bad behavior, because it forces people to use their real names, while critics say it gives the social network too much power . But the reality is that when it comes to improving blog comments, anonymity really isn’t the issue — the biggest single factor that determines the quality of comments is whether the authors of a blog take part in them. According to TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, the addition of Facebook comments seems to have improved the quality of the comments that blog receives, but has reduced the overall number of them , which he says may not be a good thing — since some people may be declining to comment via Facebook as a result of concerns about their privacy, etc.In the age of mass media, the press was able to define the sphere of legitimate debate with relative ease because the people on the receiving end were atomized-- connected "up" to Big Media but not across to each other. And now that authority is eroding. I will try to explain why. It’s easily the most useful diagram I’ve found for understanding the practice of journalism in the United States, and the hidden politics of that practice. You can draw it by hand right now.
Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
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FrontlineClub WL Holding up a mirror to journalism?
By Will Spens The Frontline Club’s first ‘On The Media’ event of 2011 was a fascinating discussion focusing on the changing and sometimes wrought relationship between the worlds media and WikiLeaks. The controversial whistle-blowing website has attracted intense worldwide interest following the massive releases of leaked US military and diplomatic files and the controversy surrounding its enigmatic founder, Julian Assange . In this event, chaired by presenter of The Listening Post on Al Jazeera English, Richard Gizbert , this thoroughly modern relationship was dissected and argued over passionately by an expert panel. On the nature of the relationship between WikiLeaks and its media partners during publication of the leaked US embassy files around the world, Ian Katz , deputy editor of the Guardian – the only UK paper working with WikiLeaks - was clear in his assessment:
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Weten we het nog? Micha Kat die werd veroordeeld wegens de ‘doodsbedreiging’ aan het adres van voormalig Demmink-journalist Bart Mos die bleek te zijn verzonnen -maar Kat bood desalniettemin direct excuses aan aan Mos voor het misverstand? Dat deze hele zaak werd gevoerd zonder dat Kat ervan op de hoogte was?
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Drie jaar geleden begon ik met veel enthousiasme met Leugens.nl . Na een turbostart en niet doorgegane deelnemingen van PCM en de Telegraaf Media Groep ging het weldra bergafwaarts, ondanks een subsidie van het Stimuleringsfonds voor de Pers. Zonder twijfel is dat mijn schuld. Maar het lijkt me verschrikkelijk leuk om er mee door te gaan, bij voorkeur in een team van journalisten. Wie doet er mee? Leugens.nl is de naam voor een site die onwaarheden en onthullingen verzamelt uit verschillende media en er zelf met onderzoek eigen verhalen aan toevoegt.
Wie doet er mee met Leugens.nl? | De nieuwe reporter
Bovendien: zij is echt! Er snel achteraan dus. Per dag dragen twee gezinnen een verkeersslachtoffer ten grave. Veel van deze doden zouden te voorkomen zijn geweest.
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immimedia Telia Sonera, 37% owned by Swedish state, is providing real time surveillance support to dictatorships. https://t.co/7l5inJZo #sif12 7 days ago reply
IMMI Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
President Obama yesterday signed into US law legislation aimed at protecting American authors, journalists and academics from Britain's libel laws. The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, known as the SPEECH Act, makes libel judgments against US writers in foreign territories unenforceable if they are perceived to counter the First Amendment right to free speech. The British-based Libel Reform Campaign has expressed concern that Britain's reputation is being damaged internationally due to what it calls "our restrictive, archaic and costly libel laws, which cost 140 times the European equivalent." The SPEECH Act is inspired by the Libel Terrorism Protection Act passed by the New York State assembly in February 2008, after American academic Dr Rachel Ehrenfeld was sued in London by an Arab businessman Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz .
Obama signs US legislation to stymie Britain's libel law | Media | guardian.co.uk
The Reykjavik Grapevine Features / Information Without Borders?
The info-wars have begun, and Iceland is begging to be the legislative battleground. In the wake of the international controversy made mainstream in part thanks to WikiLeaks’ highly-publicized and continued release of leaked documents from around the world, Iceland remains curiously relevant to the debate raging globally about transparency reform, information freedom, and the future of journalism. The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), founded last year in tandem with a proposition to drastically overhaul the country’s freedom of information laws, is responding to the new info-climate by proposing a legislative framework that could effectively make Iceland into an international transparency safe-haven.http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011
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