Erstellt am: 21. 12. 2014 - 19:00 Uhr Microsoft wird im Rechtstreit mit dem US-Justizministerium vom US-Handelsministerium unterstützt. Dabei geht es um die Weitergabe von EU-Daten an FBI und NSA. Das Verfahren des US-Justizministeriums der USA gegen Microsoft ist in der zweiten Instanz angelangt.…

Imagine this scenario. German police investigating a press leak descend on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters a US reporter is storing in a safe deposit box at a bank branch in Manhattan. The bank complies and orders the branch manager…

Die Terrorgruppe IS will ein Staat sein, ist aber bloß ein mafiöses Regime. Sie ist reich, aber ihr “Kalifat” steckt in der Krise. Wovon lebt die Organisation? Eine Spurensuche in sieben Ländern Ein Checkpoint des “Islamischen Staates” im Irak | © Stringer/Reuters Ein Mann und eine Frau sitzen an…

point is that we aren't winning the war against surveillance

Snowden told The Intercept that the latest revelations amounted to unprecedented “smoking-gun attribution for a governmental cyber attack against critical infrastructure.”

In July 2013, Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer living in a Rio de Janeiro favela, was arrested by police in an operation to round up drug traffickers. He was never seen again. De Souza’s disappearance was taken up by protesters in street demonstrations, which were met with a ruthless police response.…

Do Artifacts Have Ethics?

I was an interrogator at Abu Ghraib. I tortured.

Digital technology might have been slower to arrive in churches, temples, synagogues and mosques than in other areas of life, but many religious institutions are now embracing the opportunities it offers. Carmelite nuns, for instance, take prayer requests via Facebook FB +2.03% Facebook Inc. Cl A…

Datum/Zeit 03.12.2014 | 9:00 - 17:00 Location Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin Diese Konferenz lieferte angesichts der Möglichkeiten der digitalen Welt lösungsorientierte Beiträge zur Debatte um die Kontrolle von Nachrichtendiensten und den Schutz von…

I don’t have a lot to say about the Sony hack, which seems to still be ongoing. I want to highlight a few points, though. The most painful stuff in the Sony cache is a doctor shopping for Ritalin. It’s an email about trying to get pregnant. It’s shit-talking coworkers behind their backs, and…

The global commentariat is aflutter in the aftermath of yesterday’s release of what Twitter has termed #TortureReport by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI, pronounced “sissy,” to DC insiders). If you’re living in a cave like a member of Al-Qa’ida and somehow have missed this story,…

ONE of this year’s top-selling Christmas presents is a drone. For $50 you can buy a tiny quadcopter with a video camera, perfect for snapping a bird’s-eye view of your garden; for $700, one equipped with a gyroscopically stabilised camera which, when paired with a wireless tracking device on your…

"Imagine this scenario. Officers of the local Stadtpolizei investigating a suspected leak to the press descend on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany," Microsoft said. "They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters that a New York Times reporter is storing in a safe deposit…

YOUR VOICE (OR FINGERPRINT OR IRIS) IS YOUR PASSPORT TO THE ONLINE WORLD

Die CDU will die Vorratsdatenspeicherung wiederhaben, die EU-Kommission auch. Gegnern der anlasslosen Massenüberwachung zeigt das: Argumente zählen weniger als Ausdauer. Ist es bald wieder Zeit für Demonstrationen gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung? (Archivbild vom Februar 2014) | © Britta…

If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of out-of-focus lifecasts. The viral hits were cats getting wet and one-offs like “Charlie Bit My Finger—Again!,” a 2007 video whose exposé of…

Cloud software stacks, like those used at Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other hyper scale operations, have radically altered how system architects design and build data centers. Out are big, gold-plated integrated hardware systems like fault-tolerant x86 boxes, mainframes and enterprise…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk worries it is “potentially more dangerous than nukes.” Physicist Stephen Hawking warns, “AI could be a big danger in the not-too-distant future.” Fear mongering about AI has also hit the box office in recent films such as Her and Transcendence. So as an active researcher in the…

One Friday afternoon a dozen years ago, Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, posted on the wall of the office kitchen a printed-out screenshot of Google ad results, with “These Ads Suck!” scrawled on it. Google’s AdWords engine was supposed to serve up ads that were relevant to your search…

Für die Freiheit ihrer Lieben müssen sie zahlen

Aksaray ist ein Knotenpunkt der Flüchtlingsrouten. Im Istanbuler Stadtviertel treffen Flüchtlinge aufeinander – bevor sie nach Europa aufbrechen. Dann geht es los für Waleed. Er greift Koffer und Reisetasche, geht in die Knie, öffnet den Koffer, die Zahnbürste, die T-Shirts, alles darin, er schließt…

Last week we learned about a striking piece of malware called Regin that has been infecting computer networks worldwide since 2008. It’s more sophisticated than any known criminal malware, and everyone believes a government is behind it. No country has taken credit for Regin, but there’s substantial…

In a direct challenge to the United Kingdom and other states, Nils Muižnieks, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, calls for greater transparency and stronger democratic oversight of the way security agencies monitor the internet. He also said that so-called Five Eyes…

LONDON — The court that oversees Britain’s intelligence agencies ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people’s cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal. The ruling, on a complaint brought by privacy advocates and rights groups…

In September of last year, Chinese authorities announced an unorthodox standard to help them decide whether to punish people for posting online comments that are false, defamatory, or otherwise harmful: Was a message popular enough to attract five hundred reposts or five thousand views? It was a…

In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military’s Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages. For the NSA, the task was…

So-called “dark social” accounts for twice the sharing that occurs on Facebook, and 91 percent of us use it regularly. Apparently, email’s not dead. That’s according to a new 9,000-consumer study commissioned by RadiumOne: The Light and Dark of Social Sharing. Dark social, of course, is sharing…

Skip navigation By: Ashkan Soltani, Chief Technologist | Dec 2, 2014 1:00PM I’d like to introduce myself as the new Chief Technologist of the FTC, following in the footsteps of my predecessors, Latanya Sweeney, Steve Bellovin, and Ed Felten. As the Commission enters its 100th year, technological…

I am homeless. My worst days now are better than my best days working at Amazon. According to Amazon’s metrics, I was one of their most productive order pickers – I was a machine, and my pace would accelerate throughout the course of a shift. What they didn’t know was that I stayed fast because if I…

Glenn Greenwald described Laura Poitras as “Keyser Soze,” someone “at once completely invisible and yet ubiquitous,” while James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, branded her and Greenwald “accomplices” to espionage at a Senate hearing in January. She’s been on the Department of…

Stop me if you heard this one: A sociologist gives a TED talk and decides to to find out whether the conference’s success is best explained by the viral reach of its videos and thus McLuhan (theorist of globalization and communication)—or the famed intimacy of its gatherings and therefore Goffman…

If you talk to me, or to Evan Spiegel at Snapchat, we’ll say the same thing: We want to be the WeChat of the West.

عربي Download the Paper Download a Who’s Who of the Islamic State Senior Leadership Brookings Doha Center Analysis Paper, December 1, 2014 Intense turmoil in Syria and Iraq has created socio-political vacuums in which jihadi groups have been able to thrive. The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham…

Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits. This has been good for business—but is it bad for music? Gluekit In 2000, a Stanford Ph.D. named Avery Wang co-founded, with a couple of business-school graduates, a tech start-up called Shazam. Their…

BY HENRY CORRIGAN-GIBBS ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRIAN STAUFFER WHAT IF your research could help solve a looming national problem, but government officials thought publishing it would be tantamount to treason? A Stanford professor and his graduate students found themselves in that situation 37 years ago,…

He wakes up, and even before he opens his eyes, he can see his beautiful, delusional son. Gus, Creigh Deeds thinks. He lies in bed a few minutes more, trying to conjure specific images. Gus dancing. Gus playing the banjo. Gus with the puppies. Any images of Gus other than the final ones he has of…

These are the survivors—my survivors—hunkered in the fictional city of Pogoren, capital of the fictional Republic of Vyseni. It’s all imaginary, a blighted urban made-up-scape, but it could be Sarajevo, or Gaza, or Fallujah, or Ukraine. It could be where you live.

My youngest niece and I could not be more different. For one, I am 42 and Arianna is 17. But we have a few things in common. We’re both the youngest of three, and we both have a small cluster of ailments that swim together in the Kalem gene pool: eczema, allergies. We both grew up in regions…

Identity, Facebook, and dog-whistling from the News Feed. For a profession locked in a perpetual psychodrama with Facebook, I think journalism underestimates Facebook. It’s not that journalists don’t pay enough attention to the site (god no, lol), just that, as a journalist, your perspective is…