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Crowdsourced mapping is can be very helpful in many places, but it has the most potential in areas that haven’t been professionally mapped in their entirety, such as the Amazon rainforest. That’s why OpenStreetMap has just launched Mapazonia, a community-driven project that it hopes will
It looks as if the judges who operate the gateway between the NSA and the cable companies may not be as impartial as their job description requires them to. An investigation by Vice has revealed that several judges who sit on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are also Verizon shareholders.
US Representative, Marsha Blackburn, wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission never interferes with a “state’s right” to protect private Internet service providers from having to compete against municipal broadband networks. Twenty states have passed laws making it
It didn’t take an Edward Snowden to figure out that American espionage service providers had access to confidential information about German citizens. It’s been known for years that the Computer Sciences Corporation works for American secret services. It’s also known that a former
Yesterday evening the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved the Marco Civil bill, which contains significant protections for net neutrality, user privacy and security, and freedom of expression. The bill is the product of years of work, including a public consultation period in 2009 and 2010. The d
A number of police departments in California have been using controversial “StingRay” type of cellular interception devices for at least six years, with little or no disclosure, according to documents obtained by Sacramento’s News10. StingRays belong to a class of device made by Fl
Our belated attempt to build a nationwide emergency LTE network has already faced criticism due to board members’ close ties to wireless carriers; the organizations investigation of itself not exactly eliminating those concerns. That was followed up with concerns about potential budget shortfa
Australia is edging toward a “graduated response” system after the attorney-general declared his country’s government would consider such measures to help curb online piracy. George Brandis, who serves in the dual role of attorney-general and minister for the arts, told a gathering last Friday he wa
Although you may consider yourself lucky to have registered a catchy domain name that drives plenty of traffic to your website, query whether the domain name is actually your property; not only do companies that provide domain name registration services frequently take the position that domain names
Today, Politico Magazine published a tell-all expose of the TSA by a former officer. The article ridicules airport security, depicting scanners as futile and humiliating. But if you read between the lines, you can learn useful lessons about how to craft and deploy technology that respects privacy an
The U.S. military’s Cyber Command is about to receive the digital equivalent of faster ships and stronger missiles, but the force, only a few years in the making, is still grappling with how far it can go in fighting adversaries in cyberspace. Even as there are growing concerns about the NSA, the Wh
A pension investment group has sued IBM, claiming that the company failed to warn investors that sales in China would slow dramatically following revelations that IBM was helping the U.S. National Security Agency spy on the Chinese. Ever since the Snowden leaks began, we’ve been talking about
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