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Skeptic. Org watch & review. Corporations & Gov Watch. Category:Internet vigilantism. A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States. Watchdog International. 4-Veille.

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Consumer Reports WebWatch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online. Consumer Reports Web Watch was, until 2009, the Internet integrity division of Consumer Reports. The project was funded by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. We assisted Consumer Reports’ editorial division in evaluating the credibility of Web sites, we investigated Web sites on behalf of consumers, and we advocated for consumer-focused Internet policy and governance.

While ConsumerWebWatch.org is no longer a stand alone website, the work is still being done. Consumer Reports has incorporated the webwatch research role into its regular reports published on ConsumerReports.org. For example, if you want to garner a little privacy on Facebook, this video shows you how. HearUsNow.org handles advocacy on behalf of internet consumers, covering such issues as web tracking, data mining,and emerging issues around bundled services, “crammed” charges, data overages and much more. Government Accountability Project. ICANNWatch. Judicial Watch. FUnfolding News - Watch your favourite story unfold. Anonymous... Inequality watch. Lutte pour la transparence. The Transparent Society. Synopsis[edit] David Brin with sousveillance "maybecamera" at the Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM's) CFP conference where such a sousveillance device was given to each attendee.

Brin participated in the Opening Keynote on the "inverse panopticon". Brin argues that a core level of privacy—protecting our most intimate interactions—may be preserved, despite the rapid proliferation of cameras that become ever-smaller, cheaper and more numerous faster than Moore's law. He feels that this core privacy can be saved simply because that is what humans deeply need and want. This means they must not only have rights, but also the power to use them and the ability to detect when they are being abused. Brin thus maintains that privacy is a "contingent right," one that grows out of the more primary rights, e.g. to know and to speak.

Inverse transparency and bi-directional transparency[edit] This might seem counter-intuitive at first. Use of the concept in Brin's other works[edit] Notes[edit]

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