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Congress sends Google a list of questions about privacy and Glass
Today a bipartisan Congressional privacy caucus sent Google a letter with eight questions regarding a topic that's caused a lot of speculation : how will privacy be protected by Google Glass ? The headsets can take photos and video in a more discreet manner than raising a smartphone or a camera and pointing it in the direction of a subject. Advances in facial recognition technology, as well as the wealth of data that Google has collected through increasingly consolidated user accounts, have raised the possibility that a stranger could see you on the street and access considerable data about you.
Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall runs the popular industry blog Scholarly Open Access .
Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit
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"Comment serons-nous accueillis sur le sol américain avec nos passeports russes maintenant que nous sommes devenus à leurs yeux des compatriotes des frères Tsarnaev ?"
BOSTON • Les réseaux sociaux, ce formidable outil policier
Prenda Law is an organization that has sued thousands for allegedly downloading porn from BitTorrent over the past few years.
Copyright troll Prenda loses SF case, must show “Salt Marsh” signature
Bitcoin
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Bitcoin [ 1 ] est une monnaie électronique décentralisée conçue en 2009 par le pseudonyme Satoshi Nakamoto. Son utilisation passe par un protocole informatique exécuté par un logiciel libre éponyme, écrit en C++ et publié sous licence MIT . Fonctionnant de façon entièrement distribuée, la gestion de la monnaie est répartie sur tous les nœuds du réseau, de façon à ce que le bon fonctionnement du système ne dépende pas de l'intégrité ou de la compétence d'un émetteur central, mais uniquement de la robustesse des procédés cryptographiques employés. Le symbole monétaire , non officiel, est ฿ ou Ƀ [ 2 ] , et le sigle correspondant est BTC.
“Taming the bubble”: investors bet on Bitcoin via derivatives markets
Bitcoin’s biggest asset is also its biggest liability—no government or regulator controls what people are willing to pay for a little piece of nearly-anonymous computer code.Mark Gimein is something of a Bitcoin skeptic , but in addition to his concerns about Bitcoin not being a "real currency," he's now charging that it has created a "a real-world environmental disaster." Writing in Bloomberg News , Gimein notes that mining Bitcoins—performing computationally expensive calculations needed to define new Bitcoins—uses power.
Mining Bitcoins takes power, but is it an “environmental disaster?”
OKCupid says it will accept Bitcoin, as currency falls to recent low
On Tuesday, as Bitcoin’s exchange rate fell to its lowest level in days at around $64 per bitcoin , OKCupid announced that it would accept the digital currency from users wanting to pay for bonus features on the site.After losing in court earlier this month, the broadcasters trying to shut down TV streaming startup Aereo are asking for another chance to make their case. This time, their aims are broader. They warn of dire economic consequences if a broader panel of judges from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't reconsider the previous decision, which was decided by a narrow 2-1 margin.
With Aereo appeal, broadcasters threaten the foundation of locker services
Internet : les Français sont parmi les moins connectés d’Europe
Selon une étude publiée par Forrester , 75% des Européens utilisent régulièrement Internet , et plus de la moitié d’entre eux disposent de deux terminaux ou plus connectés au Web. Pour mener à bien ce rapport le cabinet Forrester a interrogé 22 000 Européens, vivant en France, au Royaume-Uni, en Allemagne, en Espagne et en Italie. Ainsi, les Britanniques seraient les citoyens les plus connectés de ces pays, avec un taux de 83%.Internet governance
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