Today I’m bringing you back to the ‘meat and potatoes’ of the site as we look at some interesting cases of technological dependency gone too far, as we ask ourselves just how dependent are we willing to become on the technology around us.
Today I’m bringing you back to the ‘meat and potatoes’ of the site as we look at some interesting cases of technological dependency gone too far, as we ask ourselves just how dependent are we willing to become on the technology around us.
The fight to secure copyrights on the internet will always be an ongoing one, but the most recent dilemma is that being faced in the UK with the proposed Digital Economy Bill that has just recently seen a number of amendments that are cause for concern (to say the least).
I’ve had a few posts recently that revolve around multi-national technology giant Google, both for positive and negative reasons, and today’s news has once again brought the company right into the ethical spotlight. An Italian judge has convicted three Google executives and given each a six-month suspended sentence because of a video of an autistic boy being bullied that was uploaded onto Google’s video service in 2006.
Given the focus over the last few posts on internet censorship and freedom of expression, I wanted to highlight an organisation that has been at the forefront of the fight for liberty ever since the early days of the internet’s public use – the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
If you’re concerned at all about your online privacy, then the recent announcement from Microsoft that it will be lowering IP logging on its search engine Bing to six months will come as welcome news. There has been some concern over Google’s policy of retaining such data for around two years, and Microsoft seems to be directly marketing the difference to those users who are more security aware.
For the very first of these ‘Site of the Week’ posts, I want to point you towards an organisation that I have the utmost respect for and have been visiting their site for a number of years now: The Southern Poverty Law Center.