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[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576065641376054226.html?mod=WSJASIA_hpp_MIDDLESecondNews How globalization could affect Internet privacy]
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"White House calls for Internet identity ecosystem to protect online users"<br />
Fahmida Y. Rashid, <i>e-week</i>, January 7, 2011<br />
[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/White-House-Calls-for-Internet-Identity-Ecosystem-to-Protect-Online-Users-480468/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/White-House-Calls-for-Internet-Identity-Ecosystem-to-Protect-Online-Users-480468/]
The gist:  The US government wants to create and an authentication system for Internet users, implemented by private companies but "coordinated" by the Department of Commerce, supposedly to prevent commercial fraud.


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Revision as of 16:45, 10 January 2011

WE ARE ALL WITNESSES

Security

Network Software, security, and the diaspora project Who has the bits?

Wikileaks
Diaspora  


Privacy

Network Hardware, privacy, and the MIND project Who Moves the Bits?

Net Neutrality 
MIND

"But just a few weeks before Mr. Putin publicly endorsed open-source software, FBI Director Robert Mueller toured Silicon Valley's leading companies to ask their CEOs to build back doors into their software, making it easier for American law enforcement and intelligence gathering agencies to eavesdrop on online conversations. The very possibility of such talks is likely to force foreign governments to reconsider their dependence on American technology. Whatever the outcome of Washington's engagement with the Internet, Silicon Valley will be the one to bear the costs."

How globalization could affect Internet privacy


"White House calls for Internet identity ecosystem to protect online users"
Fahmida Y. Rashid, e-week, January 7, 2011
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/White-House-Calls-for-Internet-Identity-Ecosystem-to-Protect-Online-Users-480468/

The gist: The US government wants to create and an authentication system for Internet users, implemented by private companies but "coordinated" by the Department of Commerce, supposedly to prevent commercial fraud.

Humanity

Network Usage, humanity, and the project of human civilization. Who makes the bits?

Gabrielle Giffords 
Flourishing