RT @TBIJ: Global drones wars - an excellent infographic by @AOAV using our data

Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the film rights to the book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” with the James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli ..

Even if you're careful about choosing how and where your email is sent, chances are you reply to plenty of messages sent from Gmail. And, as it turns out, that probably means that Google has most of your email, whether you like it or not.

RT @Wolfman_Patt: uses 4 times as much Co2 as Stop Global Warming Vote for Hemp @votehemp 's Action page

"The Jetsons" gave us the dream of a robot designed to help. "The Terminator" gave us the nightmare of a machine designed to kill. The future is apparently here.

In “United States of Secrets,” a two-part series airing May 13 & 20, FRONTLINE reveals the dramatic inside story of how the U.S. government came to monitor and collect the communications of millions of people around the world—and the lengths they went to trying to hide the massive surveillance program from the public.

RT @mgubrud: Heyns: to be targeted as an object by a machine is the ultimate

Imaginez des machines capables de repérer des humains, de les approcher et de... les tuer. Pour le moment, cette situation n'est qu'une fiction mise en scène dans la saga "Terminator". Mais la technologie progresse si rapidement qu'elle pourrait être très bientôt une réalité.

make/real, Virgil Widrich, 2010:

Le principe technique de l’internet, c’est le contournement des obstacles, il doit bien être possible de contourner Google. Hier donc, on s’est aperçu qu’un monde sans Google était un monde possible. Monde souhaitable ou désirable, c’est une autre question. Mais au moins, c’est un monde possible.