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A few weeks ago I saw Wael Ghonim at LSE speak about his new book Revolution 2.0. I found the talk most enjoyable – his authenticity and passion were a pleasure to listen to. The discussion afterwards was mainly on the political situation in Egypt – understandably given the session was run by the LSE’s Middle East centre (not [...]

Legislative bodies at both the national and EU level need to ensure… that press freedom is ‘mainstreamed’ across all initiatives so that advances in one field are not undermined by developments in another. A particular area of concern is the potential impact of anti-terrorism legislation at both the domestic and EU levels, which, if inappropriately applied, could give security [...]

“We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy”…. Rovio sees it as “futile” to pursue pirates through the courts, except in cases where it feels the products they are selling are harmful to the Angry Birds brand, or ripping off its [...]

#SOPA – For this reason I’m out (for the day)

Posted by: mariamz on: January 18, 2012

Today I’m going silent over social media in support of the SOPA blackout. My only activity will be adding links here on why proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation in the US is bad news for the open web. (Which should be trapped behind my WordPress blackout setting anyway – under Settings in your WordPress.com dashboard). [...]

Soundbite: French TV bans Twitter and Facebook mentions

Posted by: mariamz on: June 4, 2011

mentioning social networks like Twitter or Facebook by name goes against a 1992 decree prohibiting surreptitious advertising… It “would be a distortion of competition” to “give preference to Facebook, which is worth billions of dollars, when there are many other social networks that are struggling for recognition.” Christine Kelly, CSA spokesperson [French broadcasting authority]

Mobile phones could always track where we are via our service providers. So the latest scandal about collection of location data cannot really be that ‘they’ know where we are… but rather that a different set of ‘them’ now have this information too. The major issue is the tracking and storage of location data that [...]


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