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35 Reasons to Worry About Privacy in Africa
Over the last five years there has been a steady trend for African governments to implement mandatory SIM card registration policies. This means that you can’t buy a SIM card for a mobile phone...
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Prism – A Wake-up Call for South Africa?
Richard Poplak wrote a great article earlier today in the Daily Maverick about how the balance between what we can know about government versus what they can know about us has gotten “completely out of...
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The Open Data Cart and Twin Horses of Accountability and Innovation
Let me start by saying that the ideals of the Open Data movement: transparency; accountability; and, citizen innovation, are ones that I hold near to my heart. Further, I admire and respect many of...
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Reconciling Open Data and Privacy
Digital rights advocates have a hard time these days because the ability to manifest things online and the growth of online data have brought two “rights” into conflict. On one hand transparency and...
View ArticleImplementing user-friendly default settings
Here at Commons Machinery we have been thinking about default software settings lately. The software we are building is supposed to work seamlessly and technology that works seamlessly is software you...
View ArticleCopyright Week and the Creative Commons
This week the Electronic Frontiers Foundation is taking the 2-year anniversary of the SOPA blackout protest as an opportunity to centre on the impacts of copyright law on free speech, creative...
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Privacy Metaphors
We are living through a privacy tipping point. Technology is dramatically changing what is possible in terms of surveillance, monitoring, persistence, analysis. We are cracking open the lid of...
View ArticleWhy we need/don’t need a registry of works
The Public Consultation of the European Commission on copyright legislation asks questions about the benefits of a registry of creative works (the Fix Copyright web site has some useful summaries to...
View ArticleThe difference of DRM
When people think of managing metadata to include information about files, they often immediately think of Digital Rights Management, or DRM. DRM claims to do what we are actually trying to achieve: we...
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