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TED Celebrates 1 billion TEDTalk views

November 13, 2012 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

TED is a non-profit organization that began posting online in June 2006 (a year after the debut of YouTube) and is now celebrating their 1 BILLIONTH TEDTalk view.

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Filed Under: Politics, Science, Tech

Facebook Pages Push Political Posts to Timeline Without Your Permission

July 15, 2012 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Facebook is automatically publishing posts under your name and placing them at the top of the News feed for your friends. In some cases, these posts can include controversial political content that you would never voluntarily post. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Facebook, Politics, Privacy Tagged With: facebook, on, permission, postings, without

The Power of X – TEDxSummit 2012 Video

April 28, 2012 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

TEDxSummit is a week-long event exclusively for TEDx organizers. Hosted by the Doha Film Institute, the inaugural event gathers TEDx organizers from around the world for workshops, talks and cultural activities. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Politics, Science, Tech

CloudFlare Provides simple Stop Censorship Web App for SOPA

January 17, 2012 by Paul Spoerry 6 Comments

The Stop Censorship app from CloudFlare shows your visitors that you are against SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the proposed censorship legislation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Politics, Tech, Twitter, Web Life

Government Doesnt Need A Warrant to Snoop at Your Cloud Emails

April 14, 2011 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Do you use Gmail or other email cloud service? Then you’d be surprised to learn that according to the law, the government can get your email without a warrant if it’s older than 180 days. David Kravets of Wired’s Threat Level explains:

As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act adopted in 1986. At that time, e-mail left on a third-party server for six months was considered to be abandoned, and thus enjoyed less privacy protection. However, the law demands warrants for the authorities to seize e-mail from a person’s hard drive.

A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- and home-stored e-mail the same, and thus require a probable-cause warrant for access. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on that topic Tuesday.

The companies — including Google, AOL and AT&T — maintain that the law should be changed to reflect that consumers increasingly access their e-mail on servers, instead of downloading it to their hard drives, as a matter of course.

But the Obama administration testified that imposing constitutional safeguards on e-mail stored in the cloud would be an unnecessary burden on the government. Probable-cause warrants would only get in the government’s way.

Also note that in 2008, candidate Obama took the opposite position as now-President Obama.

Filed Under: GMail, Google, Politics, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: cloud, government, snoop, storage

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