The world’s most powerful internet and media bosses are gathering in Paris for a two-day meeting hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The heads of Google, Facebook and Microsoft are due to attend to discuss the future of the internet.
The debate over whether – and how far – to regulate the internet is expected to dominate the forum.
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‘This is serious. The US setting “security” and freedom of information standards with their international agenda in full swing? The fox is telling the chickens where to roost…nasty. I decided to put my comments by ‘ed’ throughout, couldn’t help it. What a perfect example of an Orwellian propaganda piece!’
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How what you see on the Internet is being censored for you without you having any idea it’s happening.
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‘Apple released a statement earlier this week that claims the data collection is caused by a software bug that will be remediated in a soon to be issued update to the iOS. Apple admitted that the information was being sent to the company, but they maintain that they are unable to trace the data a particular phone or user.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs even stated directly that “We don’t track anyone. The info circulating around is false.”
Reports have now surfaced that demonstrate these assurances are false.’
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‘Member nations of the European Union are in secret talks, which include the United States, to implement a “Great Firewall Of Europe” which will block and censor online content to all nations in Europe. The proposal is very similar to the China firewall which blocks access to blogs, social networking sites and all foreign news websites that publish anything that contradicts official state sponsored propaganda.’
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‘It appears every gadget in your possession is tracking your location. First it was the iPhone, then Android phones and now it’s your bleedin’ sat-nav. TomTom, perhaps in a pre-emptive strike against its own user-tracking scandal, has admitted its sat-navs can track users and inform third parties about how fast they’re going.
The sat-navs in TomTom’s Live range all feature built-in 3G data cards, which feed location and route information back to a central server, which allows TomTom to create a map of congestion hotspots. It’s now emerged that this data, however, along with a user’s speed, is being made available to local governments and authorities.’
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