Category Archives: E-Communications

Posts about electronic communications

What does CISPA provide?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by jfl

18 May Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House’s veto promise The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle. The White House official who publically condemned CISPA has suddenly stepped … Continue reading →

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Good freedom, bad freedom

Posted on April 5, 2012 by jfl

Good freedom, bad freedom: Irony of cybersecurity Until recently, Peter van Buren served as a Foreign Service officer at the State Department. He says he was fired over the book and the blog that he wrote about the failure of … Continue reading →

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“…monitor, censor and stop any online communication that it considers disruptive to the government or private parties…”

Posted on April 4, 2012 by jfl

Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web H.R. 3523, a piece of legislation dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short), has been created under the guise of being a necessary … Continue reading →

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records about you that are collected by Internet services like Twitter, Facebook, Skype and Google are fair game for warrantless searches by the government

Posted on November 11, 2011 by jfl

Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle San Francisco – A district court judge in Virginia ruled against online privacy today, allowing U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to Wikileaks. … Continue reading →

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The corporate view of ‘customer’ has evolved… from victim to commodity

Posted on April 4, 2011 by jfl

Buzz blitz The FTC stated that “Although Google led Gmail users to believe that they could choose whether or not they wanted to join the network, the options for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective.” The company is … Continue reading →

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The unbearable heaviness of breathing in Thailand

Posted on March 20, 2011 by jfl

A friend forwards the quarterly bulletin from the US Consulate in Chiang Mai and this one (pdf) had a link to the Thai Pollution Control Department Regional Area Air Quality Data. In addition to the data for the sites it … Continue reading →

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Pass the pipe

Posted on March 18, 2011 by jfl

World Sleep Day is upon us. Friday, March 18, is World Sleep Day. It couldn’t come at a better time, what with the Mideast in flames, a gigantic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan and the continuing ravaging of … Continue reading →

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No state is a “Friend of the Internet”

Posted on March 12, 2011 by jfl

12 August The Pentagon’s Fake Jihadists “Or consider what American computer specialists are doing on the Internet, perhaps terrorist leaders’ greatest safe haven, where they recruit, raise money, and plot future attacks on a global scale. American specialists have become … Continue reading →

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Mousing around…

Posted on March 9, 2011 by jfl

Very slick, very amusing presentation… … education, as we know it, is so 20th 19th Century.

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Can we trust Google?

Posted on January 8, 2011 by jfl

Trust a publicly owned corporation? Surely you’re joking. The impetus for the discussion was Hobby’s wishing me the ‘compliments of the season’. I typed the phrase into Google’s ngram page… Your browser does not support iframes. …and got the above … Continue reading →

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