#imweekly: August 19, 2013
In this week's IM Weekly: Cuban Internet café users must sign pledge not to harm national security before they go online; UK detains the partner of Snowden interviewer Glenn Greenwald; and more.
In this week's IM Weekly: Cuban Internet café users must sign pledge not to harm national security before they go online; UK detains the partner of Snowden interviewer Glenn Greenwald; and more.
The problem with modern surveillance is that much more is gathered than can be analyzed. Recent trends in human computing and the use of games to perform complex tasks might fix that problem. In the future, we may all be surveillance analysts.
This week in #imweekly: UK anti-porn filters causes several controversies, Russia threatens to block taboo language online, Australia considers educating citizens in geolocation circumvention, web developers claim the U.S. is requiring master encryption keys and a Texas man is charged with operating a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
As people share more about their thoughts and actions on social media and as algorithms grow more sophisticated, law enforcement’s ability to mine such information for clues into how to prevent crimes raises concerns of profiling and questions of oversight.