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The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.
A "hothouse" that brings together social scientists, filmmakers, computer scientists, activists, and artists, the Citizen Lab sponsors projects that explore the cutting-edge of hypermedia technologies and grassroots social movements, civic activism, and democratic change within an emerging planetary polity.
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Groups Sue U.S. for Data On Tracking By Cellphone
Posted Jul 05, 2008 in LawandPolicy by sarahb.
Two civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government yesterday, seeking records related to the government's use of cellphones as tracking devices. From washingtonpost.com
Google must divulge YouTube log
Posted Jul 03, 2008 in Privacy by sarahb.
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. From BBC
The Case Against Google-Yahoo
Posted Jul 03, 2008 in InternetSecurity by sarahb.
With the Justice Dept. confirming it plans to look into any Google-Yahoo partnership, foes are lining up their arguments. From BusinessWeek
EU says US data privacy deal possible
Posted Jul 02, 2008 in Privacy by sarahb.
EU lawmakers and rights groups have criticised deals struck in recent years with Washington, including one giving it access to private data on air passengers travelling to the United States and the right to keep the information for 15 years. From guardian.co.uk
New policy undermines Web privacy protection
Posted Jul 02, 2008 in LawandPolicy by sarahb.
Several years in the making, the new whois policy was to have conformed with national privacy laws by providing individuals with increased privacy protection against public access to their personal information. CIRA promised to continue to collect the same contact information from registrants, but it would no longer require that such information be publicly available through its whois directory. From TheVancouverSun
Chinese Bloggers Scale
Posted Jul 02, 2008 in Censorship by sarahb.
To slip past Internet censors squashing reports of a weekend riot in China's Guizhou province, some bloggers have started writing backward. From TheWallStreetJournal
Citizen spy fights to uphold our rights
Posted Jul 02, 2008 in MediaCoverage by sarahb.
A professor from Vancouver says what was once an open global space is now being carved up, colonized and militarized. From TheVancouverSun
ICANN relaxes domain-name rules
Posted Jun 27, 2008 in LawandPolicy by sarahb.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted on Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. From zdnet.co.uk
Blog standard
Posted Jun 27, 2008 in Censorship by sarahb.
What do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. From Economist.com
FCC Member, Lessig Unveil U.S. Broadband Initiative
Posted Jun 25, 2008 in LawandPolicy by sarahb.
At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Adelstein and others unveiled InternetforEveryone.org, a movement aimed at fostering a public dialogue among U.S. citizens to advise the government on how to set a national policy. From PCWorld
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