The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.
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At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges (nytimes.com) -
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A Contract for the Web (A Contract for the Web) The web was designed to bring people together and make knowledge freely available. Everyone has a role to play to ensure the web serves humanity. By committing to the following principles, governments, companies and citizens around the world can help protect the open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone.
A great idea, but when companies such as Google and in particular, Facebook, are listed as supporters you have to wonder if they really intend to develop technologies that support the best in humanity and challenge the worst.
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We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data (WIRED) VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.
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China is making the internet less free, and US tech companies are helping by (The Verge) While doing business in China, US tech companies must play by local rules — or face getting kicked out.
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The EU’s Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (Electronic Frontier Foundation) All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of extremist copyright proposals were added and…
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China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers (iTnews) Exploited omission in US-China cyber detente agreement.