April 2012
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Oh! Canada: This is a Poll … A WHAT? … A Poll! →
Thanks to anyone who gives it a whirl… The poll is research… I’m hoping to find out how accurate my assumptions are, for an article I’ll write this weekend.
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sinidentidades: I find it hilarious that the Supreme Court recently ruled that organizations can’t be sued for torture on the grounds of not reading the term “individual” so “unnaturally” because the law in question references “individual persons alone,” but can’t seem to come to apply that kind of logic to the Citizens United ruling, which claims that corporations act as “individual persons.”...
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Privacy and Social Media in Canada →
Canada is the thirteenth most saturated country in terms of global Facebook users, with a penetration rate of 51.22%. With so many users, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites maintain personal information on millions of people.
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Brian Eno wants to give you $30,000. →
poptech: Information is Beautiful just announced that Brian Eno will judge their very cool Data Visualization Awards.  You have until May 31st to blow his mind. (via wnycradiolab)  Wondering if they mean a real infographic (a graphic explanation), or one of those illustrated informational things we have come to think of as infographics (she says, having just posted one of the latter)
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WatchWatch
lothlaurien: Today.  The Town of Elmira, in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario Elmira isn’t the kind of place you expect to see protesters.  But then, again, it isn’t every day a provincial government completely ignores the wishes of the people and the municipal government. Ontario’s Green Energy Act means that Green Energy projects get the green light even if it means trucking garbage down the...
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Protest targets U.S. cyber intelligence... →
sinidentidades: SAN FRANCISCO — Civil liberties groups on Monday launched protests targeting proposed US cyber intelligence law that they fear would let police freely dip into people’s private online information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Reporters Without Borders were among organizations that signaled the start of a week of Internet protests against the Cyber Intelligence...
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