22 February 2012

Stolen Heartland Documents: DeSmog Blog Keeps Blowing Smoke - Global Warming (blog)


Gleick is indeed the culprit, but he is not a 'whistleblower' because to be a candidate for that honorable title, he'd have to be a current or former employee. Gleick acknowledges that he, an outside critic of the organization, solicited and received ...

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Pushing Congress to regulate content over anti-gay beating not the answer - The GA Voice (blog)


White told our Deputy Editor Dyana Bagby (in this week's cover story) that he would not have reported the crime if the video had not been posted online. 'That's when the embarrassment kicked in,' White said. 'I cried that day. I don't cry for nobody.

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NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast - LubbockOnline.com


They included Jesse Morton, who this month pleaded guilty to posting online threats against the creators of the animated TV show 'South Park.' He had once tried to recruit followers at Stony Brook University on Long Island, Browne said.

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21 February 2012

Opinion: For every leak, there's a solution - Computing


By Marc Lee Punishments for public sector data breaches hit a new high-water mark recently as the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposed its biggest fine to date. Midlothian Council in Scotland was fined £120000 for sending information on ...

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Matt Gurney: Vic Toews should step down - National Post (blog)


... media to commit crimes such as identify theft, the production and exchange of child pornography, and to co-ordinate criminal, even terrorist, plots. Governments and police forces have struggled to keep apace with these dark uses of online tools.

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Beware opening door to online surveillance, critics say - CTV.ca


Computer hard drives, from closed criminal cases, sit on a shelf waiting to be wiped of information at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center in Linthicum, Maryland, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP / Cliff Owen) OTTAWA รข€" Opponents of the ...

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Our internet safety obsession is bad for children - Wired.co.uk


A whole global day dedicated predominately to keeping children safe online. A big investment, across the globe of time, money, and resources. But to what end? In the week just past the FTC came out with a series of statements expressing concern over ...

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