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Having seen early adopters of Google Glass be described as ‘glassholes’, Google’s published some dos and don’ts of how to use its smart glasses. By Samuel Gibbs 
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10,000 tweets containing racist slurs are posted on Twitter every day according to a major new study by the think tank Demos.
Anonymous sharing app Secret is all the rage in Silicon Valley, but we should be cautious about who we trust. By Stuart Dredge
Supplies of cobalt, tin and gold will follow tantalum in being sourced only from conflict-free smelters
Crowdfunding platform says user names, addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords were accessed
"Apple will refund customers at least $32.5m (£19.9m) after a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The refund agreement settles long-standing complaints over in-app purchases made by children without their parents' consent..."
Businesses are at war with cyber criminals, and they are losing – Marcin Kleczynski of Malwarebytes examines why
Defiant message left on Massachusetts Institute of Technology webpage a year after internet activist took own life while awaiting trial for 'hacking'
George Monbiot: The paragon of modern tech risks losing its shine by dodging queries about Indonesia, and an orgy of unregulated tin mining
Investigation finds fake Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers could be misleading consumers
Website removed picture after initial complaint, but lawsuit alleges 'direct and contributory infringement'. Via Tania Rowlett
Tania Rowlett's curator insight,
June 19, 2013 4:32 AM
From the USA, but a stark reminder about putting uncleared content onto the web.
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Young people readily share information about themselves online, but they nevertheless place a high priority on privacy.
Ana Marie Cox: When polled, Americans are oddly sanguine about government intrusion. In our digital world, we've forgotten why privacy matters
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A child zooms down a pavement on a scooter, heading straight for a busy road. A mother, her shouts ignored, is sprinting to catch up. And just in time he stops dead, his hand reaching up for the button on the pedestrian crossing.
Canadian researchers have confirmed what most people suspected all along: that internet trolls are archetypal Machiavellian sadists.
Rebecca MacKinnon: Bing's search algorithm is failing to protect online freedom of expression. Microsoft can – and should – do better on China
The social media site's increasing of personal gender options to more than 50, including trans categories, has been hailed by some. But it would have been braver to remove gender completely – and spare us gender-targeted ads
Brian von Kraus's curator insight,
January 12, 2016 6:15 PM
Amazing videographic from The Economist showing the recent history of Congo that explains the current instability of the country. 
Matt Danielson's curator insight,
November 19, 2018 1:55 PM
his is a great short yet informative breakdown of recent conflict in the Congo. this mineral wealth has lead to much conflict over groups attempting to gain control over it ranging from local militias, the government troops, and outside conflicts spilling in (Rwanda rebels for example). These conflicts have had a severe negative effect on the countries population ranging from political issues, to economic lack of growth because even though minerals are being sold, the wealth gained is not spread to better the country, but to retain control on the mines and for making themselves rich.
Stevie-Rae Wood's curator insight,
December 9, 2018 4:06 PM
The natural resources located in Congo have caused a lot of government instability. There are many competing groups of violent people in the small country of Congo. The country of Congo has been through a lot militia struggle and people trying to seize power of the country, not always for the resources but in some cases for ratification of minority group that the majority group does not like. Congo is at the bottom of the spectrum of health and wealth as well.
NSA extracts location, contacts and financial transactions from up to 200 million texts daily that GCHQ can tap into to search metadata from UK numbers
A panel of data and information security experts share what they think will be the big talking points in 2014
Juergen Wagner's curator insight,
January 16, 2014 11:27 AM
Further fee webinars in the near future: A3.122-2434: "Kooperative Lernformen" im Französischunterricht A3.124-1234: GoAnimate y su integración en redes sociales E4.123-0534: Creating e-books to defend the environment - an award winning project: A3.124-1334 Recursos de la web para el aula de E/LE E4.111-0134: Soziale Netzwerke im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Von Facebook zu Edmodo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EFPmjfjkk&list=PLk44rTChs03NN5aEDiG4oanTqdvoneSlg My good buddy @tmsophie has been doing some extraordinary work on her "Great Recovery" project for the RSA and...
Aditya Chakrabortty: Tian Yu worked more than 12 hours a day, six days a week. She had to skip meals to do overtime. Then she threw herself from a fourth-floor window
Emma Cook attempts to apply the principles of the 5:2 fasting to cut down her family's tech time
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both stop it and order the records purged......
The program “gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious and intimate associations,” the complaint says, adding that it “is likely to have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers and others who would otherwise contact” the A.C.L.U. for legal assistance............
....Congress never openly voted to authorize the N.S.A. to collect logs of hundreds of millions of domestic phone calls, but the administration notes that some lawmakers were briefed on the program. Some members of Congress have backed it as a useful counterterrorism tool, while others have denounced it.
“The administration claims authority to sift through details of our private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can,” Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday. “I disagree. I authored the Patriot Act, and this is an abuse of ............
......Still, even with such restrictions, privacy advocates say the mere existence of the database will inevitably erode the sense of living in a free society: from now on, whenever Americans pick up a phone, before dialing they now face the consideration of whether they want the record of that call to go into the government’s permanent files.
Moreover, while use of the database may currently be limited to terrorism, history has shown that new powers granted to the government for one purpose often end up being applied to others. An expanded search warrant authority that Congress granted in the Patriot Act justified by the Sept. 11 attacks, for example, was used far more often in routine investigations like ...... And also: The dangers of a surveillance state: Clear, powerful interview of Edward Snowden, NSA Whistle-blower : - ... | @scoopit
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