or just making my life more difficult. We blogspotters have been forced onto an interface that looks more like Wordpress, which as far a...

"Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics . . . . [but said, 't]he more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the ...

So there. (In solidarity with Lisa Brown .)

As of today, LeakDirect lists 23 of them (with links). Somebody had to be first.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive datab...

(Thanks, Ben!)

"CV Dazzle" is based on the original camouflage from WWI and targets automated face detection and recognition systems by altering ...

I'm still seeing a lot of confusion about what Anonymous is. During the last several months, Anon constituencies have been most active i...

Or, Are We in Post-Reality Yet? The full essay with links to sources and more is here . (To comment on it, please return to this post and c...

I'm working on an essay to put flesh on these bones, but wanted to get this out there without further delay. The essay will have lots o...

This video has been around for a few months and is long, but it's very good – I'm not aware of a better summation of many of the iss...

No joke. More at Wikipedia .

As reported rather breathlessly by The NYT , you can now make and receive phone calls to/from regular phones from/at your computer for free,...

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information ...

Good news: as a replacement for Clusty (search engine that used to protect users' privacy but has been bought by the corporate borg), a ...

For some years, I've used Clusty as my primary search engine, because supposedly they don't track your keystrokes, etc.; i.e., maybe...

. . . in Houston, opening Fri., Jan. 5, includes some of my favorite artists, such as Eyebeam R & D , Jonah Peretti & Michael Frum...

Should you have the right to know who commissioned the creation of the Facebook quizzes you take? At All Facebook , you can't see who c...

Per the BBC : Great Britain has spent some £500 million [as of today, nearly $820 million] on surveillance cameras, over a million of which...

" Vanish is a research [?] system designed to give users control over [their] . . . personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. S...