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An excellent University of North Carolina video where Fred Stutzman discusses Facebook, Myspace, and social networks in general.
The concepts of Social surveilance, weak vs. strong ties, and the effect of the “invisible audience”. The differences between social networks, and the effects of social networks on society in terms of privacy implications are discussed.
Note: The video [...]
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Talk by James Bamford author of “The Puzzle Palace” and “Body of Secrets” & Chris Calabrese Program Counsel of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Project.
This video, nearly one hour long, has a good history of all the dirty tricks the National Security Agency in US has been playing all along their history. You should be [...]
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Computer scientist Samson Cheung of the University of Kentucky creates programs that can manipulate video surveillance all the way down to the pixel level.
You can watch in this video how the technology exists to avoid intrusive CCTV from recording people who do not wish to be on camera. The only problem I see with this [...]
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Frank | Category:
encryption
Off-the-Record is an open source plugin to use with Pidgin, an instant messenger software compatible with IRC, MSN, SILC, ICQ, Yahoo! and lots of other chat software that come with no privacy measures whatsoever.
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing encryption, authentication, deniability and perfect forward secrecy.
You [...]
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As you will see on this video British police seems to be getting paid to carry out surveillance on journalists as much as protestors, any journalist who covered the Climate Change camp held last Summer in Kent is now very likely to have all his details recorded by the British Stasi, aka Forward Intelligende team.
Be [...]
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