Editing Commons:Current events (section)

=Privacy=
''Who moves the Bits?''

'''Network Hardware, privacy, and the [[MIND]] project'''

 [[Net Neutrality]] 

 [[MIND]]

"But just a few weeks before Mr. Putin publicly endorsed open-source software, FBI Director Robert Mueller toured Silicon Valley's leading companies to ask their CEOs to build back doors into their software, making it easier for American law enforcement and intelligence gathering agencies to eavesdrop on online conversations. The very possibility of such talks is likely to force foreign governments to reconsider their dependence on American technology. Whatever the outcome of Washington's engagement with the Internet, Silicon Valley will be the one to bear the costs."

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576065641376054226.html?mod=WSJASIA_hpp_MIDDLESecondNews How globalization could affect Internet privacy]

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"White House calls for Internet identity ecosystem to protect online users"<br />
Fahmida Y. Rashid, <i>e-week</i>, January 7, 2011<br />
[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/White-House-Calls-for-Internet-Identity-Ecosystem-to-Protect-Online-Users-480468/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/White-House-Calls-for-Internet-Identity-Ecosystem-to-Protect-Online-Users-480468/]

The gist:  The US government wants to create and an authentication system for Internet users, implemented by private companies but "coordinated" by the Department of Commerce, supposedly to prevent commercial fraud.