There is a fascinating article in Science News about how scientists are investigating ways to identify individuals based on the rhythm of their keystrokes when they type and their individual patterns of using a mouse. This research goes beyond, but is complemented by, research in text analysis that can sometimes identify authorship of a [...]
Tech firms blasted over China policies on Capitol Hill
Tech companies are starting to (rightfully!) catch a lot of flack over their complicity to restrict speech and other human rights in China. But now the rabble is aroused! See boingboing for the whole story. The coolest action vs google is by the organization Students for a [...]
Police Infiltrate Protests, Videotapes Show
By JIM DWYER
Published: December 22, 2005
Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war,
bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a series of videotapes show.
Spying on the Protesters,
by JOHN S. FRIEDMAN
The Nation,
[from the September 19, 2005 issue].
“…the FBI was more interested in intimidation than in trying to gather information.”
Last November, we noted the story about the US Government seizing web servers in London
(US Gov. says: “We seize servers, you can’t complain”). Now an update from
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):
Secret Documents About Indymedia Server Disappearance Unsealed
EFF last week won a motion allowing it to
access sealed court documents about the mysterious
disappearance of two web [...]
Feds blacklist ‘illegal’ Cuban Web sites By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, July 8, 2005.
In a lengthy regulation (“Alphabetical Listing of Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated
Narcotics Traffickers“) published in the Federal Register, the
Office of Foreign Assets Control, lists web sites that [...]
This is so odd, I just don’t know what to think about it. Perhaps someone can
explain it to me?
Watch closely as you load this pdf file http://www.adcouncil.org/pdf/homeland_magazine_flag_13×21.pdf
from the AdCouncil and you may see a picture of Tom Ridge behind the picture of the flag. If you don’t see it, try resizing the window and [...]
Survey Finds First Amendment
Is Being Left Behind in U.S. High Schools.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Jan. 31, 2005.
A new study, The Future of the First Amendment, of high school student, teachers, and administrators shows a shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment by high school students. Among the findings: half believe the [...]
Computer Matching Between the Selective Service System and the Department of Education
Federal Register, November 4, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 213) [Page 64353].
[Notices] FR Doc 04-24634.
Computerized access to
the Selective Service Registrant Registration Records (SSS 10) enables
ED to confirm the registration status of applicants for assistance
under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), [...]
Education > Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/education/29college.html?oref=login”>Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO,
The New York Times,
November 29, 2004,
Late Edition – Final,
Section A; Column 1; National Desk; Pg. 19.
A proposal by the federal government to create a vast new database of enrollment records on all [...]
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