2.6+Government+control+and+use+of+information

= = =** STRAND 2: Government and politics > ** Government control and use of information = Censorship, data matching across agencies, archiving, biometric data, national identity cards.


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 * ===**[|Hope X: You've lost privacy, now they're taking anonymity.]**===

**2:38:21 - long scary insight into your privacy and anonymity**
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 * **Iran and the Twitter Revolution -**
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'Only the Best' Links
Russian bloggers and, not surprisingly, Russian media were mostly skeptical about Clinton's speech. Article titles vividly illustrate the framing of the address: “Top-Level Trolling: U.S. Government Plans To Enlighten Russian Citizens Via Twitter” (Vzglyad [RUS]), “Strategic Twitter Offensive: the U.S. Claims Authority Over Defending Free Internet All Over the World” (Gazeta.ru [RUS]), “Enemy Voices In 140 Symbols” (Polit.ru [RUS]) ." ||  || governments have placed to remove content from their servers. ||   || freedom of information - uses sophisticated technology to mask its authors. ||   || within regimes. ||   ||
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 * Social Media and Fake news in the US Election 2016 || Excellent detailed but easy to understand peer reviewed paper on Fake News how it comes about and affected the 2016 US Election and brought Trump to power! ||  ||
 * How are political parties targeting you on facebook? || Good article questioning targeted ads and Facebook in upcoming 2017 UK Election. ||  ||
 * Hillary Clinton and the importance of Internet Freedom || "It seemed that this kind of speech would be supported by bloggers all over the world. Surprisingly,
 * Google Government Take Down Requests || Google website which mashups a map showing the number of requests different
 * Global Voices Map Mashup of Access Denied || Great mashup but focusing on Web 2.0 censorship within countries. ||  ||
 * Web Censorship Weblog || Up to date news about government censorship around the world. ||  ||
 * Wikileaks || The wiki tool that is used to break stories related to censorship and
 * Syria and Citizen Journalism - Bypasses Censorship || Recent Syran Uprsings show power of online streaming media to enable to outside world to see issues
 * [|Wired for Repression] || "Wired for Repression" exposes how Western companies provide surveillance systems to authoritarian countries such as Iran, Syria, Bahrain and Tunisia. The technology allows authorities to intercept their citizens' e-mails and text messages, monitor Internet activity and locate political targets through cell phone technology. Government officials can use such information to locate, arrest and torture persons opposing the government. Reports and six videos included on the website. ||  ||

**'Only the Best' Videos and Podcasts**
"Following the riots in England, text messaging and social networks such as Twitter could be turned off during disturbances - under plans being considered by the government. Spencer Kelly examines whether BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook can be blamed for the trouble and if it would be possible to silence them." (also relates to TOK) || and the idea that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with scary examples of how the web can help to oppress people. || media type="custom" key="5871085" ||
 * [|How has technology affected the riots in England?] || []
 * [|The e-G8 forum: Can governments regulate the web?] || [] ||
 * Egypt's Facebook Face Off - Turning off the Internet Did It Work? || media type="youtube" key="V_tBr7MSoxQ?fs=1" height="390" width="480" ||
 * Fabulous TED Video - showing Evgeny Morozov discussing "iPod liberalism"
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 * ===Government Web-Tracking=== || media type="youtube" key="mpDs1ii5n6w?fs=1" height="463" width="574" ||

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