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Across the country Canadians are standing against the "Internet Lockdown"
Legislation like Bill C-11 could create an Internet lockdown, where Internet users are cut off for no good reason, and vast swaths of the Internet are removed or hidden from view.
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A Few Notes from Luciano Floridi’s book The philosophy of information
Editable | Print | PDFFrom : Floridi, Luciano. The philosophy of information (Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Good problem / Open problem / Reseach Method « Good problems are the driving force of any intellectual pursuit. Being able to do valuable research hugely depends on having good taste in choosing them. Now, for Hilbert, a good problem is a problem rich in consequences, clearly defined, easy to understand and difficult to solve, but still accessible. Again, it is worth learning the lesson, with a further qualification. We saw in chapter one that genuine philosophical problems should [...]
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Abandoning the concept (and illustration) of “information collection” for that of “production”
Editable | Print | PDFIn its original 1990 version, the theory of interpersonal information processes refers to collection as one of information’s logical phases. The term collection is borrowed from protection of personal information law, which itself borrowed it from the lexicon of public and private bureaucracies. However, the word collection (action to pick a pre-existing object) masks the presence of a production of new informational artifacts. The result is that several implications are veiled, particularly those related to the intellectual property of the new information objects and to their pragmatic dimension. The question then is: should collection really be [...]
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My New Major Research Project
Editable | Print | PDFSince January 2013, I started a new research project. A big project that will monopolize most of my energy in the coming years. And on the developments of which I will report on this site. Its title is Beyond “Privacy”: General Theory of Interpersonal Information Processes. This project’s aims it to equip actors, practitioners and researchers with tools for identifying and resolving issues and legal issues, social and ethical issues raised by the interpersonal information applications and systems that are increasingly present in our lives. At this stage, I’m still setting up the project whose objectives [...]
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2012 Map of a Twitter Status Object for Dummies
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Many probably have seen the Map of a Twitter status object below. Produced by Raffi Krikorian, from Twitter’s engineering department, this one-page chart quickly became popular. This was because it illustrated in a single image that a Twitter message was not a mere line of text up to 140 characters. Although this document and [...]
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“Beyond Privacy” Project: The Mandatory Multiplication of Electromagnetic Information Loaves
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Utility vehicles Information objects allow us to interact across time and space. This capability varies depending on the physical support. The difference becomes obvious between solid matter and electromagnetic waves. How would it feel for you to pull out a banknote and burn it? If a twinge of lost, the source is [...]
Living Between the Lines
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2012 Map of a Twitter Status Object for Dummies
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Many probably have seen the Map of a Twitter status object below. Produced by Raffi Krikorian, from Twitter’s engineering department, this one-page chart quickly became popular. This was because it illustrated in a single image that a Twitter message was not a mere line of text up to 140 characters. Although this document and [...]
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“Beyond Privacy” Project: The Mandatory Multiplication of Electromagnetic Information Loaves
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Utility vehicles Information objects allow us to interact across time and space. This capability varies depending on the physical support. The difference becomes obvious between solid matter and electromagnetic waves. How would it feel for you to pull out a banknote and burn it? If a twinge of lost, the source is [...]
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“Beyond Privacy” Project: A Few Decisions Following Your Comments
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Firstly, a big thank you for the comments received so far! Noteworthy detail: people who have commented so far all are women. Not a single man… Each of your comments is valuable. Some have already resulted in several decisions, including: to divide the Introduction into short chapters of less than 75 lines as in [...]
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“Beyond Privacy” Project: Glossary
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Glossary Information : The word receives quite different definition depending on the uses and the fields of practice. In this book, this word designates a material support for the conservation, communication and processing of knowledge or signals, particularly one those that give a form to an interpersonal relation.
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“Beyond Privacy” Project: Bibliography
Editable | Print | PDF This post is about the “Beyond Privacy” Project: LIVING BETWEEN THE LINES information society through our personal information. As this is an open work-in-progress book drafting project, please do not hesitate to comment! Every input is precious to help improve it. Bibliography Cross, R. C, and M. S Wheatland. “Modeling a Falling Slinky.” arXiv:1208.4629 (August 22, 2012). http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4629 Floridi, Luciano. Information: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Le Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Office de la langue française du Québec. http://www.gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford, United Kingdom. Oxford University Press. 2010. http://www.oed.com/ Trésor de la [...]
Shorts
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Data Dealer: Online game on how to become personal data tycoon with Tracebook and Smoogle!
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Editable | Print | PDFData Dealer: Online game on how to become personal data tycoon with Tracebook and Smoogle!Trailer video and game demo. Data Dealer Game: Privacy? Screw that. Turn the tables! PLAY NOW! Data Dealer is a brand new Facebook game about collecting and selling personal data. Check it out! This was posted on Google+…
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Google Feature Helps You Plan For Your Death
Editable | Print | PDF Google Feature Helps You Plan For Your Death Google doesn’t want you to worry about the afterlife — or at least what’s left of your digital assets once you’re gone. Google’s new “Inactive Account Manager” feature lets the user choose what to do… This was posted on Google+…
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My Saturday morning ritual: sipping two cups of latte while watching Listening Post (even when in work…
Editable | Print | PDFMy Saturday morning ritual: sipping two cups of latte while watching Listening Post (even when in work overload times as I am in now)This week: a critical celebration of Marshall McLuhan with Evgeny Morozov ! Listening Post – Of mediums and messages In the 1960′s, long before anybody ever updated their Facebook page, posted their whereabouts [...]
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_“Entity that controls the structure (in this case, Facebook), ultimately remains able to affect how…
Editable | Print | PDF _“Entity that controls the structure (in this case, Facebook), ultimately remains able to affect how actors make choices in that environment."_ How Facebook Reversed Users’ Privacy Push While we’ve always known that Facebook has the final say in how people use its service, a new study reveals just how effectively the social network can nudge its [...]
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“deafening silence reveals a culture within Silicon Valley that cares far more about information than…
Editable | Print | PDF"deafening silence reveals a culture within Silicon Valley that cares far more about information than civil liberties" Why There’s No Mass Protest Over Government Surveillance | TechCrunch This was posted on Google+…
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Mining Twitter data
Editable | Print | PDFMining Twitter data Twitter Is Selling Your Data By Mitch Lipka (REUTERS) – Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege o… This was posted on Google+…
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Nearly 35% Of Android Apps In China Secretly Steal User Data, Another Sign Of Google’s Lack Of Control | TechCrunch
Editable | Print | PDF Nearly 35% Of Android Apps In China Secretly Steal User Data, Another Sign Of Google’s Lack Of Control | TechCrunch This was posted on Google+…
