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Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an ...
Cory Doctorow at 10:06 PM April 8, 2010
From the you'd-have-to-laugh-or-you'd-have-to-shoot-your ...
The Right Honourable Stephen Timms is the UK's "Minister ...
... imms MP doesn't know what an

The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied...
The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ...
US law allo

“A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.”
And it’s not just tha

New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it t... minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data

A newly discovered piece of malicious code dubbed Duqu i... to the notorious Stuxnet worm that damaged Iran's nuclea... centrifuges last year. Although it has no known target o... the stage for more industrial and cyberwar attacks, expe...

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business.

The NHS’ controversial project to computerise all pati... cost billions of pounds without delivering any benefits,... damning report.
It warns the project is running years behind schedule an ...

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind.

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail,... frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her... notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst.
Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say ha ...

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EU’s Digit...

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
Well, first

Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of informat...
Source MIS Quarterly archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (June 1992) table of contents
Pages: 227 - 247
... Peter A. Todd

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

Going beyond the standard media sharing and mapping solutions currently available, Placebooks aims to provide communities with richer ways to tell the story of the places they live in or visit. The toolkit is being made available for open, free distributi

Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to...
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials su ...
We kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a ...
The core of this vision is the trade in product designs ...
... nstead

Jeff Randall: Here in Britain we’re very good at comin... but not very good at turning them into money-making busi... that?
Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ...

Use our service to anonymously and securely store an onl... proof of existence for any document. Your documents are ... database or in the Bitcoin blockchain, so you don't have...
All we store is a cryptographic digest of the file, asso ...
The key adv

Some business establishments give customers the option o... RFID-based tab to pay for service, such as the Baja Beac... Barcelona.[114] This has provoked concerns into privacy ... they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an i... to them.

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society.

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a merit... self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and... anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly dispro... opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that ... opposite of