Stockholm Internet Forum, SIF, is a conference that aims to deepen the discussions on how freedom and openness on the Internet promote economic and social development worldwide. SIF 2014 will be held May 27-28 2014.
This isn’t about Facebook per se—maybe it will do a good job, maybe not—but the fact that algorithmic filtering, as a layer, controls what you see on the Internet. Net neutrality (or lack thereof) will be yet another layer determining this. This will come on top of existing inequalities in attention, coverage and control.
via Euractiv 20.1.14 - massmedia not registrd as print media or broadcatsers but provide "information product" to the public must register wirth the state as "information agencies - blocking of websites authorised - licensing of internet providers - all telcos obliged to buy and install equipment to intercept communications (previously state bought the equipment)
Yle uutiset 20.1.14: Skog kertoo myös, että Kieku-järjestelmässä havaittujen puutteiden korjaaminen on vaatinut lisätyön tilaamista järjestelmää toimittavalta Logicalta. Pelkästään työvuorosuunnitteluun liittyvän ohjelmisto-osan korjailu on maksanut satojatuhansia euroja. Skog kuitenkin korostaa että lisätöiden hinta on varsin pieni, kun sitä verrataan hankkeen kokonaisbudjettiiin, noin 125 miljoonaan euroon.
the murky world of online financial transactions where money bounces between accounts from Cyprus to New York in the blink of an eye. "While Liberty Reserve was incorporated outside the United States, federal officials used a provision in the Patriot Act to target the organization and other financial institutions with whom they conducted business. It was the first time the provision had been used to prosecute a virtual currency provider, officials said." "Organized crime and terrorist groups are now financing their operations through these anonymous payment systems,” said Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Trend Micro, a security firm. “The financial sector no longer has a monopoly on moving capital around the world.”
DN 2013-06-06 Säkerhetsmyndigheten NSA har fått tillstånd av den hemliga domstolen FISA att dagligen övervaka trafiken via bredbands- och teleföretaget Verizon, skriver brittiska The Guardian. Tidningen uppger att den har kommit över en kopia av beslutet.
Political science professor Henry Farrell in Washington Post 17 Oct, 2013: "Glenn Greenwald, who has published many of the most important scoops from the Edward Snowden leaks, is leaving The Guardian and setting up a new media venture with long-time journalist Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill from The Nation. The venture is being funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, who has suggested that he’s prepared to invest more than $250 million in the new venture."
"Internet security is hard," he says with emphasis. "All systems have undiscovered holes in them, and it's only a question of how fast the bad guys can discover the holes compared with how fast the good guys can patch them up."
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 28 July 2013 While the press concentrates on the furore surrounding Edward Snowden's search for political asylum, it has forgotten the importance of his revelations "The "human interest" angle has trumped the real story, which is what the NSA revelations tell us about how our networked world actually works and the direction in which it is heading."