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Algorithm-driven economy

dimanche 6 août 2017 à 02:00

Profiled consumers, manipulated by marketing algorithms, are living lives comparable to The Truman Show.

Parental monitoring technology

dimanche 6 août 2017 à 02:00

New technology for monitoring everything that children do, and everything that happens to them, will teach parents that they must monitor everything, and teach children to expect to be always monitored.

Volunteer

dimanche 6 août 2017 à 02:00

I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a New York City subway station without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.

Internet censorship bill

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

EFF: Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation.

"Sex trafficking" is a weaselly term. Nominally it means forcing people into prostitution, but I've seen articles which seem to use it to include voluntary prostitution (which is, after all, trafficking in sex). Those articles try to take our proper condemnation of enslavement and misapply it to prostitutes in general.

The distinction between prostitution and enslavement is crucial, so we should reject any terms that blur the distinction, such as "sex trafficking". Laws should not use that term.

The article also uses the term "content" which treats publications as a fungible substance or commodity. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.

Spying on human rights lawyers

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

Mexican human rights lawyers were hit by malware designed to spy on their portable phones.