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http://blog.vrijschrift.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/82-Piratendebat.html Downloadverbod. Filteren. Afknijpen. Three strikes out. Bewaarplicht. ACTA. Het vrije internet wordt van vele kanten bedreigd. In het Europees Parlement strijden Piraten en Groenen samen voor de rechten van internetgebruikers. Europa heeft een handvest van digitale burgerrechten nodig, vinden zij. Wat moet er in zo’n Internet Bill of Rights komen te staan? Daarover gaan [...]

Amsterdam, 5 februari 2009 – De grootste privacyschenders van de afgelopen jaren zijn bekendgemaakt. Op vrijdag 5 februari werden tijdens een stampvol symposium de Big Brother Awards 2009 uitgereikt aan Minister Ter Horst, de nieuwe vingerafdrukdatabank, T-Mobile en Vodafone en mobiele naaktscanners van de politie. Met deze prijzen worden elk jaar personen, bedrijven, overheden en [...]

Privacywaakhond Bits of Freedom heeft Minister Hirsch Ballin van Justitie gevraagd om de bodyscan niet in te voeren. De bewindvoerder liet na overleg met de Amerikaanse minister van Binnenlandse Veiligheid weten dat hij de naaktscanners voor alle vluchten naar de Verenigde Staten wil verplichten, om dit later voor alle vluchten van en naar Nederland in [...]

The Expropriation of Digital Labor 
and What to Do About It View more presentations from The New School University. Quotes From the article: Post-Mortem Conference Mashup: The Internet as Playground and Factory  by Trebor Scholz scholzt@newschool.edu … Frequent reference points in the animated conversations included practices like gold farming, game modding, blogging, “turking” on Amazon.com’s Mechanical [...]

Trecho da ‘Carta pela Inovação, Criatividade e Acesso ao Conhecimento‘. http://fcforum.net/ A idéia é de que cada um de nós façamos a promoção dessa carta e a coloquemos em prática. A Cultura Livre amplia drasticamente os espaços de participação cívica, expandindo o leque de indivíduos e grupos capazes de contribuir para os debates públicos. Trata-se, [...]

Everyone should have the right to disconnect. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world. Everyone should have the right to quit her 2.0-ified life. Facebook and Co. are [...]

The Price of Free By NICHOLAS CARR Published in the NYT on November 13, 2009 When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and plumbing — are nothing new in the [...]

A ação é contra nomes bastante conhecidos, como Samsung, Best Buy, Westinghouse e mais. Mas o criador do Busybox veio a público dizer que não está representado nessas ações, e que nenhuma das partes jamais o procurou a respeito. Trecho inicial do longo artigo no iG Tecnologia: O SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center), uma organização [...]

Não é sobre o Sarney, não é sobre a censura do jornal ‘ o Estado de São Paulo’. Quando eu era pequena no final dos anos 60, ouvia os meus pais e avós comentarem frequentemente que ‘ hoje o Estadão está cheio de receitas, ou mesmo se telefonarem quando o Estadão aparecia com páginas em branco. Hoje o youtube está populado com as gravações que foram censuradas pelo Estadão,