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On the dangers of crowdsourced surveillance

My blog post for Harvard Business today looks at the troubling online reaction to last night’s riots in Vancouver. Reflecting on the widespread enthusiasm for using social media to track down criminals, I wrote: I don’t think we want to live in a society...

Creative disobedience online, from DeCSS to tweettheresults

This entry is part 26 of 39 in the series 40 years online

Quiz: What level of online security is right for you?

This entry is part 16 of 39 in the series 40 years online

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