October 1, 2013
by Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report dot com
The latest release of National Security Agency slides from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that the NSA is heavily involved in monitoring social media and the social networking activities of Americans. The NSA will claim that this is part of their obligation to protect national security [Read more…]
BBC asks “Who is Facebook really working for? Internet utopians suggests an alternative paradigm to Facebook and it’s relationship with big business.”
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. He shares insight from the ancient Greeks to help us deal with our new “digital tattoos.” [Read more…]
To read the full transcript click – http://www.corbettreport.com/fisa-facebook-and-the-end-of-privacy/
by Nicholas Carlson
We just got off the phone with a hedge fund manager who says his fund owns Facebookstock “in excess of a $100 million.”
The fund bought the stock Friday, after the IPO. [Read more…]
Anyone spending anytime on the internet these last couple of weeks would have come across some article exclaiming Facebook was going to shatter all IPO records known to man. Buying shares would make you an instant millionaire or billionaire in the case of the FB management team. The steady drumbeat message was buy, Buy, BUY!!! [Read more…]
As many nations try to regulate the internet, how far will governments go to censor online content? Engaged internet activists, Rebecca MacKinnon and Latoya Peterson, discuss the US proposed legislation called Stop Online Piracy ACT, SOPA, plus, one Austrian student’s battle against Facebook. [Read more…]
h/t cryptogon and from TED – “Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.”
Update X1 – Here’s a story covering “Black Box Hedge Funds“ you might find interesting.
h/t Evelyn
Read more at TED.com
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