Creativity and Innovation
From FreePress.net: "If the FCC proposal passes, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. What is the FCC thinking?!?"
Free Speech
Don't miss the two-week discussion with Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked, about global online civil liberties, led by EFF-Austin's Jon Lebkowsky, currently in progress on the WELL. When it comes to legislation like the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)
Events
EFF Austin is about as ready as we can be to start up monthly meetings again. That's the kind of frank honesty we'd like to cultivate when it comes to all of our activities. We're a volunteer-run organization and all of the board
Privacy
Guardian UK: "Washington looks set to wave through new cybersecurity legislation next week that opponents fear will wipe out decades of privacy protections at a stroke." EFF has an action page here. EFF's infographic:
Creativity and Innovation
Motherboard TV documentary about Free Network Foundation. More information here.
Privacy
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
Events
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
Privacy
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
A website called "Frugal Dad" offers this infographic covering various issues of online privacy:
Activism
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.