Creativity and Innovation
Free the Network
Motherboard TV documentary about Free Network Foundation. More information here.
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Privacy
KXAN on Google's Privacy Policy
Austin's KXAN interviewed EFF-Austin president Jon Lebkowsky for a story on Google's consolidated privacy policy. They didn't quite get our point that this is not really a huge change - they've just created a consolidated privacy policy that applies to most of
Events
Bruce Sterling at ATX Hackerspace, 2/25/2012
Events
EFF-Austin presents Bruce Sterling at ATX Hackerspace
Bruce Sterling will give away and sign some of his books Saturday 5pm-7pm at ATX Hackerspace, 1601 Rutherford Lane, Suite A200 in Austin. Sponsored by EFF-Austin. Drop by, hang out, get to know Hackerspace, walk away with a signed volume of sci fi or hacker crackdown journalism. ATX
Events
EFF Party at SXSW
Privacy
Xi Jinping's Visit Amidst a Rattling of Cyber Sabers
Being a sequence of quotations from contemporary articles contextualizing the visit of the rising Vice President of China amidst a conspicuously timed introduction of unprecedented domestic cybersecurity legislation. National Post Full Comment (Feb 14) - "From bitter gruel, Xi Jinping to ascend to China's top job" by
Privacy
Online privacy infographic
A website called "Frugal Dad" offers this infographic covering various issues of online privacy:
Activism
PIPA and SOPA explained
Clay Shirky has the best overview I've seen/heard/read of PIPA and SOPA and the context from whence they emerged: Bottom line: the legilsation's about wanting us to be passive consumers, not producing and not sharing.
Activism
SOPA not stopped
I put on my $DAYJOB CTO hat for Midas Green Tech and facilitated a conference call with Sean McLaughlin, the Chief of Staff for the Judiciary Committee, and executives from CoreNAP and DataFoundry today. Sad to say, it's not dead yet. The "Internet experts hearing" that
Activism
Judiciary Committee May Study Cybersecurity Provision Before Implementing It As Part of PIPA
EFF-Austin just received this press release from the Computer and Communications Industry Association: Contact: Heather Greenfield 202-783-0070 ext 113 hgreenfield@ccianet.org Ed Black 202-783-0070 ext 110 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 12, 2012 Washington - Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has put out a statement may
Privacy
Police to Use Iris Scans from iPhone App; FED Form Nat'l ID Center at UT
Guest post by Mark Boyden Found this recently (from July 2011, read article for full text, images, videos, documents, and deeper links): Police To Begin Using Iris Scans From Controversial Iphone App, FED Forms “Center For Identity” At U-Texas Austin Campus ~ Alternative News Report - July 21, 2011 Representatives from
Privacy
Not a war on computing
Former EFF-Austin Director Cory Doctorow thinks that there's a war on general purpose computing. Transcript at https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md But it's not as bad as all that. It's not a "war" on GP computers-