#Facebook ’ s Free Internet Plan for India Creates Controversy @GIigalaw

Public Database Online Exposes Info on 191 Million Voters

Security bloggers and researchers claim to have uncovered a publicly available database exposing the personal information of 191 million voters on the Internet. The information contains voters’ names, home addresses, voter IDs, phone numbers and date of birth, as well as political affiliations and a detailed voting history since 2000.

Read the article: The Hill

Appeals Court Rules for Cisco in $64M WiFi Patent Case

A U.S. appeals court cleared Cisco Systems Inc. of infringing another company’s wifi technology, reversing a near $64-million judgment against the networking equipment maker in the long-running patent dispute. After eight years of litigation that also included a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Cisco was not liable for directly infringing or inducing others to infringe a patent held by Commil USA LLC on a way to help spread wireless signals over a large area, where multiple access points are needed.

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Facebook Inc. Chairman Mark Zuckerberg made a personal appeal in one of India’s leading newspapers for the country to allow a free Internet service that has stirred controversy and invited questions from regulators. The backlash in India centers on net neutrality, the principle that all Internet websites should be equally accessible.

China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet @WSJ

Officials aim to control online discourse and reduce U.S. influence

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China is aiming to draw the world’s largest group of Internet users, such as these patrons of an Internet cafe in Fuyang, away from an unrestricted global Web. PHOTO:AN MING/FEATURECHINA/ZUMA PRESS

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SHANGHAI—As social media helped topple regimes in the Middle East and northern Africa, a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army publicly warned that an Internet dominated by the U.S. threatened to overthrow China’s Communist Party.

Ye Zheng and a Chinese researcher, writing in the state-run China Youth Daily, said the Internet represented a new form of global control, and the U.S. was a “shadow” present during some of those popular uprisings. Beijing had better pay attention.

Four years after they sounded that alarm, China is paying a lot of attention. Its government is pushing to rewrite the rules of the global Internet, aiming to draw the world’s largest group of Internet users away from an interconnected global commons and to increasingly run parts of the Internet on China’s terms.

It envisions a future in which governments patrol online discourse like border-control agents, rather than let the U.S., long the world’s digital leader, dictate the rules.

President Xi Jinping—with the help of conservatives in government, academia, military and the technology industry—is moving to exert influence over virtually every part of the digital world in China, from semiconductors to social media. In doing so, Mr. Xi is trying to fracture the international system that makes the Internet basically the same everywhere, and is pressuring foreign companies to help.

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#Israelis Win ‘Best App’ Award !!! @BIN

By Anav Silverman March 12, 2015 , 7:00 am

“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.” (Psalm 33:6)

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Omri Erez holds the prestigious Mobile Premier Award that he and his partner, Haran Yaffe won for developing the Fansino app that “reunites artists and fans.” (Photo: Courtesy)

Two Israelis behind the Fansino app won first place at a prestigious smartphone app competition held in Barcelona last week.  Haran Wolfovitz Yaffe and Omri Erez won the 2015 Mobile Premier Awards “Best App of the Year” at Spain’s Mobile World Congress, the largest cross-platform app showcase in the mobile industry and attended by around 70,000 people.  

The app placed first among 800 other nominees as the contest, which has been described as the Oscars for the mobile world. Yaffe and Erez were chosen out of the 16 finalists who made the cut.

In 2010, the Israeli traffic and navigation app, the now internationally-known Waze, was the first place winner of the Mobile Premier Awards and went on to draw millions of users around the world.  

Fansino is an app that provides musical artists the ability to communicate directly with their fan base as they are listening in real time across all major streaming services and mobile devices. On the other end, fans receive information about their favorite artists and upcoming concerts in their area. “The app allows both sides to communicate with one another, both the artist and the fan,” said the app designers

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/32435/israelis-win-best-app-award-prestigious-competition-spain/#fdOBPcDDm2emfPR8.99

#NetNeutrality Rules Lead to Differing Interpretations

Some suggest the new rules are "antiquated" or like rules regulating utilities—others disagree.

Ed Silverstein, Law Technology News

February 27, 2015    | 0 Comments

The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules that promote net neutrality—despite lingering partisan disagreement on how to best ensure the future of the Internet. The FCC approved the new rules along party lines, and though some have suggested the new rules are like those that regulate utilities or are “antiquated,” others disagree.

“The talk of the so-called ‘utility-type’ regulation and ‘antiquated’ rules is more rhetoric than a substantive argument,” said Pantelis Michalopoulos, head of the technology, Internet and media practice group at Steptoe & Johnson. “The opponents of net neutrality do not mention any examples of what they mean.”

As envisioned, the new rules aim to prevent blocking, throttling and fast lanes, explained Tom Wheeler, the Democratic chairman of the FCC. “Consumers must get what they pay for—unfettered access to any lawful content on the Internet,” Wheeler added during Thursday’s FCC meeting.

Wheeler specified that broadband networks must be fast, fair and open. He added that under the new rules the open Internet will apply “equally to both fixed and mobile networks.” “Mobile wireless networks account for 55 percent of Internet usage. We cannot have two sets of Internet protections—one fixed and one mobile—when the difference is increasingly anachronistic to consumers,” Wheeler said.

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Read more: http://www.legaltechnews.com/id=1202719115374/New-Net-Neutrality-Rules-Lead-to-Differing-Interpretations#ixzz3Sxoc0G1F

Converstations on #SOCIALMEDIA

Wearable #technology and #SOCIALMEDIA,

Social media access is going to change with the practical use ofwearable technology and your business will have to adjust to reach the right audience.

The debut of the Apple Watch in April is just one of many releases of wearable technology. Intel, Samsung, and Motorola have already put their smart watches on the market, unleashing a whole new era of mobile capabilities for the consumer. These smart watches will enable the wearer to conduct basic functions as if they were using their smart phone. GPS location services, receiving “tap” alerts from incoming messages, accelerated app access, and virtual wallets are all aspects of mobile devices that change how social media advertisements will reach and affect the consumer.

The Changeup

Wearable technology will alter how customers receive media messages because the screens for these smart devices are much smaller (about 42 mm) than a typical smart phone or tablet. The decrease in size limits the amount of information the user can comfortably observe and makes marketers work to have their message read effectively.

Banner and pay-per-click ads could become obsolete due to the change in screen size and difference in interface, so branching out to more user friendly media is key. But using wearable technology opens up a new conundrum for advertisers: how do you reach a consumer who is more receptive, but simultaneously more limited.

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REPUBLICAN #FCC MEMBER WARNS #NETNEUTRALITY IS NOT NEUTRAL

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by CHRISS W. STREET9 Feb 2015Newport Beach, CA795

Ajit Pai, the sole Republican Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), inferred in a Tweet that President Barack Obama’s secret, 332-page “Net Neutrality” document is a scheme for federal micro-managing of the Internet to extract billions in new taxes from consumers and again enforce progressives’ idea of honest, equitable, and balanced content fairness.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler recently acknowledged that the two Democrats on the commission had decided to avoid Congressional input regarding the Internet by adopting President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1934 Communications Act to regulate the Internet with the same federal control as the old AT&T customer monopoly. To make sure that libertarian advocates would remain in the dark, Wheeler “embargoed” release of any of the specifics in the new administrative “policy” that will act as law.

The FCC legislation that was passed eighty-one years ago by the most leftist Congress in American history to ban companies from participating in “unjust or unreasonable discrimination” when providing phone services to customers

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Discovering the Internet of Things

Vendor Voice: Don't lag behind the e-discovery ramifications of quickly-evolving everyday tools.

Erik Post , Law Technology News

January 1, 2015    | 0 Comments

The beginning of a inflection point for law, business and technology is staring at us. The Internet of Things has quickly become a new frontier for technology vendors to explore, the corporate world to consider, and the legal community to fear.

What is the IoT? Everyday objects—such as household appliances, light bulbs, coffee machines, automobiles, personal devices and health devices— that have network connectivity and can send and receive data without human interaction. A simple example: The Nest thermostat that can "learn" your heating and cooling preferences and then adjust them automatically.

Today there are around 10 billion Internet-connected devices in the world. According to Morgan Stanley, by 2020, there will be 75 billion. This huge projected rise in IoT devices strongly suggests we are at a defining moment in technology history. IoT qualifies as a potential inflection point due to the fact that each individual’s personal digital world will be able to interact with the world in general, autonomously. This independent (machine to machine) communication capability will also generate a great deal more data subject to potential federal oversight, litigation (e-discovery), and data breaches.

Read more: http://www.lawtechnologynews.com/id=1202678554856/Discovering-the-Internet-of-Things#ixzz3NmXFPvbY

#TCOT North #Korea Blames U.S. for #Internet Outage

North Korea lashed out at the United States, blaming it for disruptions that cut off the nation’s already limited connections to the Internet, while once again rejecting American accusations that it was behind the hacking of Sony Pictures. The statement, carried by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, also called President Obama a “monkey” for urging the film studio to release “The Interview,” a comedy depicting the assassination of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

·         Read the article: The New York Times

‘The Interview’ Copied 750,000 Times Illegally in One Day

“The Interview” was a big hit with pirates on Christmas. On Christmas, about 750,000 people stole digital copies of “The Interview” by using the file-sharing software, according to piracy blog TorrentFreak.

·         Read the article: CNN

Hackers Boast of Attack on PlayStation, Xbox

Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming networks experienced widespread problems on Christmas Day as a hacker group claimed responsibility for what it said was an attack.Hundreds of users took to Twitter to report problems with the systems, which lasted much of the day.

·         Read the article: CNN

Microsoft, Google Oppose Hotels’ Wi-Fi Plans

Microsoft and Google recently joined the wireless industry’s lobbying group and a handful of other parties in opposing the hotel industry’s petition, which seeks the Federal Communications Commission’s permission to block personal Wi-Fi networks on their properties. This summer, the American Hospitality & Lodging Association and Marriott International asked the FCC to declare that a hotel operator can use equipment to manage its network even if it “may result in ‘interference with or cause interference’ to a [wireless device] being used by a guest on the operator’s property.”

·         Read the article: Re/code

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China says Internet censorship needed to fight #terrorism

Robert Spencer Nov 21, 2014 at 4:24pm China, free speech 14 Comments

Bad idea. If this comes West, Western governments are so clueless and compromised at this point that they will censor counter-jihad sites, not jihad ones. Can you imagine David Cameron angering his Islamic supremacist friends and allies by closing jihad sites? Not a chance. But the foes of jihad will be deep-sixed right away — an effort that will be aided and abetted by foes of the freedom of speech on the far Left.

“China says Internet censorship needed to fight terrorism,”Bloomberg, November 21, 2014:

BEIJING — China laid out its reasons for controlling online content at the first government-sponsored Internet conference, saying it is crucial to thwart terrorist attacks in the country.

“In recent years, the Internet has become the major channel for terrorists to organize and to incite violent attacks,” Gu Jianguo, director of the cyberspace security department of the Ministry of Public Security, said at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. It’s important to have a “safe” Internet, he said.

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Cable Companies Worried About Google, Netflix

The real threat to online freedom is from Internet giants like Google and Netflix, according to major cable companies. Those sites could block access to popular content and extort tolls out of Internet service providers, the cable companies warn.

·         Read the article: National Journal

Putin: The Internet Is a 'CIA Project'

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a media meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Putin mocked the Internet as a CIA project and pledged to protect Russia's interest in the online industry.

IMAGE: RIA-NOVOSTI, MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV, PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

The Internet? It's a "CIA project," according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin made that bizarre remark on Thursday at a media forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the Associated Press' translation. He said the Internet "is still developing as such," which is why Russia needs to "fight for its interests online."

SEE ALSO: 'We Call Him Putler': For Ukrainians, the Enemy Is Obvious

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Internet Users Send 204 Million Emails Per Minute

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A lot can happen in 60 seconds. A decent typist can write approximately 80 words, the Wright brothers can make their historical first flight five times andYouTube users upload 72 hours of footage.

While social media can create the sense that the Internet is a small town where everyone is connected and, for the most part, gets along (outside of election season), the truth is quite the opposite. The data transferred on the Internet each minute by its roughly 2.4 billion global users is vast and incomprehensible.

SEE ALSO: 8 Ways Tech Has Completely Rewired Our Brains

http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/data-online-every-minute/?utm_cid=mash-prod-email-topstories&utm_emailalert=daily&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily

Is the Internet now the most popular way to find a lawyer?

I’m not saying the Internet is not the leading way Americans find a lawyer today. I’m just wondering.

I don’t believe a recent FindLaw Survey found that the Internet is the the most popular way to “find and research a lawyer” as FindLaw reported in a press release last week.

The survey asked:

Before hiring an attorney, which of the following would you be MOST likely to use to research and compare the credentials of different attorneys? (emphasis added)

http://kevin.lexblog.com/2014/04/21/is-the-internet-now-the-most-popular-way-to-find-a-lawyer/ 

State Your Sexual Intentions With HeavenlySinful Dating App

Posted 6 hours ago by Jordan Crook (@jordanrcrook

Twin brothers, Henry and Harry, both have Tinder. Henry downloaded the app to find the future Mrs. Henry, while Harry is just looking for a one-night stand. But as a girl swiping through Tinder, you’d have no way of knowing the difference between the two guys’ intentions.

That’s what HeavenlySinful is for.

The app asks you to state what you’re after each time you open up the service: are you feeling Heavenly or Sinful? (Translation: Do you want to go out on a nice date or enjoy the fleeting pleasures of a booty call?)

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/state-your-sexual-intentions-with-heavenlysinful-dating-app/

Losing our religion: New research shows the Internet could be making Americans lose faith

New research shows that the number of Americans with religious affiliations has dropped by 18 per cent, or 25 million people

Computer scientist Allen Downey says there is a correlation between the drop and the rise of Internet use

He says the increased usage of the internet correlates to 25 per cent of the drop

New research has shown a correlation between the rise of the Internet and the decline of Americans claiming religious affiliation.

Other factors, such as an increase in higher education, are also implicated, but according to Allen Downey, a computer scientist at the Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, the increase in Internet usage has a significant correlation.

The MIT Technology Review reports that in 1990, eight per cent of Americans had no religious affiliation. In 2010, that figure stands at 18 per cent, or 25 million people.

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Religious figures: Downey says that increased Internet usage correlates to about 25 per cent of the drop in religiosity

Downey analyzed data from the General Social Survey, a well-respected annual research survey carried out by the University of Chicago, to make his findings.

Downey says the single biggest cause of religious affiliation is upbringing: those you are raised in religious households are much more likely to remain in their family's religion as adults.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597891/Losing-religion-New-research-shows-religion-declined-Internet-use-increased.html#ixzz2y7jOmWlx
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