Harpers Mag Feb 2023 The dreams of collaborative software building, universal privacy guaranteed by strong encryption, autonomy, chosen community, and an escape from scarcity—in short, the professed ideals of West Coast libertarianism—have taken a back seat to the imperative to track, extract, and monetize. Instead of a global consciousness, we have a giant machine for selling ads.
Drömmarna om samarbete i programvarutillverkning, universell integritet garanterad av stark kryptering, autonomi, utvald gemenskap och en flykt från knapphet - kort sagt, de uttalade idealen i västkustens libertarianism - har fått stå tillbaka för kravet på att spåra, utvinna och tjäna pengar. I stället för ett globalt medvetande har vi en gigantisk maskin för att sälja annonser.
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web...
a book review
Albert-László Barabási explained the processes underpinning such a neofeudalism in his analysis of the structure of complex networks, that is, networks characterized by free choice, growth, and preferential attachment. These are networks where people voluntarily make links or choices. The number of links per site grow over time, and people like things because others like them (the Netflix recommendation system, for instance, relies on this assumption).
Review of Yasha Levine's book Surveillance Valley. The secret military history of the Internet. " It tells a story about Silicon Valley that really isn’t told enough, and it points out some really unpleasant – but, alas, all too true – aspects of the technology that we have all come to depend on. Google, the “cool” and “progressive” do-good-company, in fact a military contractor that helps American drones kill children in Yemen and Afghanistan? As well as a partner in predictive policing and a collector of surveillance data that the NSA may yet try to use to control enemy populations in a Cybernetics War 2.0? The Tor Project as paid shills of the belligerent US foreign policy? And the Internet itself, that supposedly liberating tool, was originally conceived as a surveillance and control mechanism?"
Google on Google and Mashable on Mashable. Wikipedia: "Mashable is an Internet news blog. With a reported 5+ million monthly pageviews[ and an Alexa ranking around 1200, it ranks among the largest blogs on the Internet. Mashable regularly writes about MyS
Governments and companies pushing for greater monitoring of Internet activity pose a major threat to freedom and democracy, according to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Questions: 1) Net neutrality. 2) Government data. ("t's better if dat
Si le filtrage du moteur Google.cn était un arrangement d’ordre pratique avec un pouvoir qui entend lutter contre le free flow of information, Google a fini par reconnaître que les exigences du gouvernement chinois entraient de manière fondamentale en con
"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of
« Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing "Motives: Facebook Must Go Open To Increase Monetization Inventory" "Resulting in More Content Inventory for Advertising Opportunities. Facebook knows LINK that in order to compete with ma
Openness is a Fundamental Principle of the Internet Strangely, the words 'citizen' or 'democracy' are hardly mentioned in this context. Only 'users', 'consumers' and 'economic growth'. It says, however: "Millions of consumers -- along with Web companies,
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Coun"sel "Today we [Google] submitted comments supporting the FCC’s proposed Third Way. In a letter to the agency two months ago, Google along with other technology companies ex
Like the rest of the technology world, we're wondering why Google has chosen to ally itself with Verizon, issuing a set of joint net neutrality recommendations that critics charge would significantly weaken the Federal Communications Commission's ability
While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source, it utterly fails on the equally important issues of transparency and community. Android basically gives you two options: Accept what Google gives you, or fork the entire codebase. Other
Das Video zeigt einen Aussschnitt aus der im Internet via Livestream übertragenen Rede vom 16.03.2012. Edmund Stoiber, der für seine Sätze ohne Verb bekannte Politiker, rührt einmal kräftig durch die Themen Acta, Internet, Urheberrecht, China, Gundgesetz und Piratenpartei.
Blowing away the corporate-fueled smoke, McChesney breaks through with insights like these: " “Most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the importance of capitalism in shaping and, for lack of a better term, domesticating the Internet,” says Robert W. McChesney in his illuminating new book, Digital Disconnect." * “The corporate media sector has spent much of the past 15 years doing everything in its immense power to limit the openness and egalitarianism of the Internet. Its survival and prosperity hinge upon making the system as closed and proprietary as possible, encouraging corporate and state surreptitious monitoring of Internet users and opening the floodgates of commercialism.”
A lobbying organization that counts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants among its clients has lent support to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act,
Google executive Richard Salgado testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee hearing on The Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 13, 2013. (Reuters) - Search giant Google Inc on Wednesday warned that U.S. spying operations risk fracturing the open Internet into a "splinter net" that could hurt American business.