A Healthy Internet

All Your Data Are Belong To Us

IRL: Online Life Is Real Life — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:48:46 +0000

While you may think it’s no big deal to give away your personal data in exchange for free online services, how can you know that what you get for what you give is a fair trade?

Open Source World

TED Radio Hour — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:29:26 +0000

Creating things freely and in the open sometimes leads to results you never thought possible.

The Bookie, The Phone Booth, and The FBI

Note to Self — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:28:42 +0000

When privacy is invaded, it’s not all at once. It’s little by little by little. It’s changing our society and will have profound implications for who we are as a nation.

Political Disruption and the Internet

FT Tech Tonic — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:25:52 +0000

You can donate your blood, but you can’t donate your data.

Why is the Internet toxic for women?

To the Best of Our Knowledge — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:25:05 +0000

The same ways we once trivialized domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace were the very same arguments that victims of cyber harassment are faced with.

The Russian Passenger

Reply All — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:24:22 +0000

Oh god–have I been pwned?

Beware All

Reply All — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:23:34 +0000

When Not to Trust the Algorithm

HBR Ideacast — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:22:39 +0000

I wanted to tell the world, because I thought it was relatively invisible to most people, that we’d all drunk the Kool-Aid of big data and we trusted so math so much, so deeply, that it was blinding us to the real problem.

The internet must be preserved (Brewster Kahle, chairman, The Internet Archive)

Recode Decode — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:21:59 +0000

If we allow those who control the present to control the past then they control the future. That’s George Orwell. We need to know what came before.

Is the Internet being ruined?

Freakonomics Radio — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:21:17 +0000

The Internet has the potential to create a more engaged and creative society. The risk is that gatekeepers and profiteers and others will turn it into a more passive ecosystem, less interactive than it could be — more like watching television.

Can Walt Mossberg rescue the Internet?

Ctrl-Walt-Delete — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:20:40 +0000

Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It’s too important to leave unprotected.