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European Universities Dismal at Reporting Results of Clinical Trials:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01389-y "Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules"FCC Commissioner Demands Answers From Telcos on Phone Location Data: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wmzg/fcc-commissioner-demands-answers-from-atandt-t-mobile-sprint-verizon-on-phone-location-data
Google To Roll Out Auto-Delete Controls For Location History and Activity Data: https://betanews.com/2019/05/01/google-auto-delete-controls/
NSA Says Warrantless Searches of Americans' Data Rose in 2018:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/nsa-surveillance-spike/#Technology # InfoSec #SE
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"World War 3 is a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian populations." - Marshall McLuhan in 1970. 50 years ago, yeah?
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Surveillance & the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma - talk by Oscar Gandy Jr:
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"Why Did a YouTube Bot Make an Unwatched Video of Our Blog Post?": https://hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/why-did-a-youtube-bot-make-an-unwatched-video-of-our-blog-post/ via @mwnm #Generative #SE #Bots
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"China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on more than 5000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the military, education, business, and the media":
http://www.chinavitae.com/ #Politics #SE #Research -
Team Linked to Elon Musk Edges Closer to Brain Computers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/team-linked-to-elon-musk-neuralink-outline-brain-monitor-system #BCI #SE #Military #NeuroScience
Summary: Deranged billionaire & secretive startup, funded by US military, developing "sewing machine", a system for monitoring & stimulating brains, to access thoughts & control behaviour via AI
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"Is geospatial intel the new framework for civilization? The NGA’s new director speaks his mind": https://www.stlmag.com/news/geospatial-intel-NGA-sharp/ #Military #SE
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Potent strategies against increasingly sophisticated automated "Denial-Of-Service" (DDOS) & "Social Engineering" Attacks against human attention & judgment (Fakenews, DeepFakes, Botnets, etc.) are Meditation (Attention Management) and Education (Digital Literacy) - not more tech
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"Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - coordinated inauthentic behaviour":
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"You know enough to know what's not true, but you can't necessarily connect all of the dots to know what is true" - Richard Thieme at DEF CON 22 recalling a conversation with a friend from NSA
"Fancy computer models and convoluted technical language about War: Organisations like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Microsoft - their technical language is an obfuscation. As what they create is woven into everyday life - the devices & systems shed their tool-like qualities & become part of our very humanity" - Richard Thieme
"With the explosion of discoveries in the area of neurosciences will come individuals, political entities and countries that will exploit those findings for nefarious purposes. In the health sciences the enchantment market is growing offshore and is often hidden. Customers do not posses a diagnosable neurological disorder but they are seeking some cognitive performance advantages or want to prevent a probable decline. And in the performance degradation arena, advantages that intersect our core values as scientists and physicians are joined and challenged in new ways." - Christopher Green - Chief of biomedical & Life science division of CIA.
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"Network Theories of Power" - talk by Manuel Castells (1h): #SE #Politics
"In terms of science, technology & information, about 200 universities globally produce 85% of all (scientific) knowledge (based on citation index). So in every aspect, there is a tremendous disparity what is included and what isn't - and that is power." - Manuel Castells
Power and counter-power in the digital society - talk by Manuel Castells:
Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society:
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/46/35The Non-Global Global Crisis - talk by Manuel Castells:
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The Creation of Discursive Monoculture:
https://www.scribd.com/document/320441507/The-Creation-of-Discursive-MonocultureCommunications in Conflict: http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Communications-In-Conflict.pdf #SE
The Society of the Spectacle: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4
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Wonder why there are so many "conspiracy theories" & "fake news" online? Beyond loony-people empowered by networks, It is very useful for people/orgs in power, hence tolerated & encouraged. The best way to keep a "secret" is to put it in the open and surround it with noise. Denial of service attack (DDOS) on the human intellect as a Service.
