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These Sites Violate Your Privacy
The Wall Street Journal has analyzed the top 50 sites in the United States plus 20 other top sites in sensitive categories like dating or health. They found that 25 of these sites—including OKCupid, Pinterest, YouTube, Yahoo—send personal data to other sites in the open, with no security encoding, using your own browser session.
The 2012 Democratic Party Platform and Tech
Dems: Internet good; Republicans, IP theft bad
The 2012 Republican Party Platform and Tech
The 2012 Republican platform: Internet good, FCC and Net Neutrality bad
When Did We Get So Nasty?
by Scott Monty
Offline: how's it going?
The Verge is paying staff write Paul Miller to write about living without the internet for one year. The story so far…
And it is going great. The experiment, that is.
The first two weeks were a zen-like blur. I’ve never felt so calm and happy in my life. Never. And then I started actually getting stuff done. I bought copies of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, and Aeschylus. I was writing at an amazing pace. For the first time ever I seemed to be outpacing my editors.
Without the internet, everything seemed new to me. Every untweeted observation of daily life was more sacred. Every conversation was face to face or a phone call, and filled with a hundred fresh nuances. The air smelled better. My sentences seemed less convoluted. I lost a bit of weight.
Three months later, I don’t miss the internet at all. It doesn’t factor into my daily life. I don’t say to myself, “ugh, I wish I could just use the internet to do that.” It’s more like it doesn’t exist for me. I still say “ugh, I have to do that” — it’s just not the internet’s fault.
“DISCONNECTING” AND “DISCONNECTED” ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS
TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want unfettered freedom.
Read In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet? | Culture | Vanity Fair
A Cyber Tribute Replaces A Traditional Memorial For Andy Griffith via WFMY 2 digtriad.com
