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OpenStreetMap wants to crowdsource a map of the Amazon
Crowdsourced mapping is can be very helpful in many places, but it has the most potential in areas that haven't been professionally mapped in their entirety, such as the Amazon rainforest....
Numerous FISA judges are also Verizon shareholders
It looks as if the judges who operate the gateway between the NSA and the cable companies may not be as impartial as their job description requires them to. An...
Congress just dealt a massive blow to municipal broadband
US Representative, Marsha Blackburn, wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission never interferes with a "state's right" to protect private Internet service providers from having to compete against municipal...
Microsoft made a “technical error” while hijacking someones else’s network
Microsoft admitted Tuesday it made a technical error after it commandeered part of an Internet service’s network in order to shut down a botnet, but the Nevada-based company says its...
Germany is now banning tech companies that work with the NSA
It didn't take an Edward Snowden to figure out that American espionage service providers had access to confidential information about German citizens. It's been known for years that the Computer Sciences Corporation...
Brazil approves bill to protect internet freedom and net neutrality
Yesterday evening the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved the Marco Civil bill, which contains significant protections for net neutrality, user privacy and security, and freedom of expression. The bill is the product...
Musician sues Apple, Amazon, and CD Baby for more than $5.2 billion
A South Carolina man has sued Apple, Amazon, and CD Baby for more than $5.2 billion dollars over copyrighted sound recordings and artwork. Plaintiff Roland Chambers, in a court filing to...
Numerous California police departments have been tapping cellphones
A number of police departments in California have been using controversial "StingRay" type of cellular interception devices for at least six years, with little or no disclosure, according to documents...
Corruption and bureaucracy have ruined the planned nationwide emergency LTE network
Our belated attempt to build a nationwide emergency LTE network has already faced criticism due to board members' close ties to wireless carriers; the organizations investigation of itself not exactly eliminating those concerns. That...
Australia considers a “graduated response” system to help curb online piracy
Australia is edging toward a “graduated response” system after the attorney-general declared his country’s government would consider such measures to help curb online piracy. George Brandis, who serves in the...
Virginia court claims that domain names aren’t actually property
Although you may consider yourself lucky to have registered a catchy domain name that drives plenty of traffic to your website, query whether the domain name is actually your property;...
TSA officer admits that body scanners are only good for seeing you naked
Today, Politico Magazine published a tell-all expose of the TSA by a former officer. The article ridicules airport security, depicting scanners as futile and humiliating. But if you read between the lines, you can...
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