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A new initiative called “Museum of Social Media” offers free ‘exhibits’ of articles from Wiley journals.
The Marketplace Tech Report episode looked at President Obama’s executive order authorizing sanctions for human rights abuses that will target countries that monitor and track cell phones and citizens’ browsing habits.
Source: Elinor Mills, CNET
In December 1998, a U.S.-based hacker group called Legions of the Underground declared cyberwar on Iraq and China and prepared to protest human rights abuses in those countries by disrupting their Internet access.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will speak at a luncheon on April 3, 2012 at University of California, Irvine. Prof. Deibert will address the role of Big Data and the political economy of cyberspace controls.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed earlier this week as the Internet briefly went dark in Iran.