CENSORSHIP OF INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas | Techdirt
Facebook and Google join the Tea Party - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
Google, Facebook and other technology companies are aligning with the Tea Party to defeat copyright legislation championed by movie studios and the U.S.
Blue Coat Acknowledges Syria Used Its Gear for Internet Censorship Amid Arab Spring - WSJ.com
A U.S. company that makes Internet-blocking gear acknowledges that Syria has been using at least 13 of its devices to censor Web activity there—an admission that comes as the Syrian government cracks down on its citizens and silences their online activities.
Daily Kos: Twitter Censoring ALL My Tweets & I'm NOT Alone
I am really disheartened. Is this happening to anyone else?In a request made yesterday to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Verisign outlined a new “anti-abuse” policy that would allow the company to terminate, lock, or transfer any domain under its registration jurisdiction under a number of circumstances.
Verisign wants power to shut sites down upon law enforcement request
Polytechnic Institute to Provide High-Performance Computing Research | AFCEA SIGNAL Scape
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, is being awarded a $13,536,712 task order under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to utilize the Comprehensive National Incident Management System.
Gmail users got a hefty dose of reality today when it was revealed that Google handed over one user's private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant. The contacts list and IP address data of Jacob Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer for Tor was given to the U.S. government after they requested it using a secret court order enabled by a controversial 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, according to the Wall Street Journal. The law allows the government to demand information from ISPs not only without a warrant, but without ever notifying the user.
Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to U.S. Government
The Federal Reserve Seeks Social Media Monitoring Program | TPM Idea Lab
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York wants to know what you are Tweeting, Facebooking and YouTubing.
Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York wants to know what you are Tweeting, Facebooking and YouTubing. Apparently, a simple Google search for posts about the Fed doesn’t suffice, as the bank has issued a request for proposal soliciting the creation of a “Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution,” which would allow it to gather all of the comments posted about it online and distinguish between positive and negative commentary. The RFP , uncovered by the blog Zero Hedge on Sunday, calls for a far-reaching, customizable social dashboard that “must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms -Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube.