Cyberculture agenda: “Internet Archive and an FBI Order

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Internet Archive Successfully Fends Off Secret FBI Order

 The Intercept by Kim Zetter

A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter, demanding the name, address and activity record of a registered Internet Archive user. The letter came with an everlasting gag order, barring Kahle from discussing the order with anyone but his attorney — not even his wife could know.

EFF battles misleading, sloppy, secret FBI warrants aimed at the Internet Archive and CREDO

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has disclosed that it has won two key victories for clients who’d received the FBI’s notorious, gag-ordered National Security Letters — a form of secret warrant that has become the go-to way for law enforcement to avoid scrutiny since the Patriot Act’s passage.

Google Play Reveals Best Games, Apps of 2016

All Facebook by Brandy Shaul

Google Play revealed the top applications and games on its service in 2016. For these lists, the top “trending” apps and games were those that were the most downloaded in 2016.

On a global level, Google Play said Scoompa’s Face Changer 2 was the top trending app in 2016, followed by Lumyer – Photo & Selfie Editor from Lumyer and CastBox – Podcast Radio Music from CastBox.FM in second and third place, respectively.

3 Major Social Media Trends You Shouldn’t Overlook

 Social Media Today by Marie Dollé

What are the key social media and digital marketing trends to watch in 2017? Here are three big shifts.

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Cyberculture roundup: “Yahoo seems to have betrayed its users…

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Yahoo has been secretly scanning your email and handing it over to US intelligence [Updated]

The Next Web by Bryan Clark

For years, Yahoo has been scanning the email of unknowing users and then turning this information over to US intelligence agencies. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Reuters broke the story today that Yahoo is complicit in breaching the privacy of millions of potential users, even beyond its recent hack. The company complied with a US intelligence directive that saw millions of Yahoo Mail accounts scanned in near-real time as opposed to the stored message scanning relied on most commonly. This breach seemingly targeted millions of users, all of which were unaware they were being monitored. In fact, ‘complicit’ may be the…

Delete Your Yahoo Account

The Intercept by Sam Biddle

There’s no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday’s bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous, faltering web company designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, we now know that a Yahoo account is a toxic surveillance liability.

Yahoo Email Surveillance: the Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance

 EFF.org Updates by Andrew Crocker and Mark Rumold

In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users’ incoming emails, in real time.

There’s still much that we don’t know at this point, but if the report is accurate, it represents a new—and dangerous—expansion of the government’s mass surveillance techniques.

How Did the Feds Get Past Yahoo’s Encryption? Yahoo!

Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg

For Apple and now for Yahoo, stronger encryption only made government spying demands more aggressive.

The Internet Finally Belongs to Everyone

Wired Top Stories by Klint Finley

ICANN might not be perfect. But it just might be the future.

uTorrent’s New Altruistic Mode Baffles Enthusiastic File-Sharers

 TorrentFreak

In general terms, torrent clients haven’t undergone much development in the past several years. They essentially do what they did a decade ago, albeit with a number of additional bells and whistles.

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Turkey denied entry to Lagendijk, who was one of the permanent advocate of Turkey’s EU candidacy…

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Dutch politician, columnist Joost Lagendijk denied entry to Turkey

Joost Lagendijk, the former co-chair of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Today’s Zaman columnist, was denied entry to Turkey on Sept. 25 after his flight from the Netherlands landed at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport

In other news:

Turkish markets, lira seeking recovery after Moody’s rating cut

Turkey’s markets and currency were seeking recovery after shares tumbled 4 percent and bonds and the Turkish Lira weakened sharply on Sept. 26, the first trading day after Moody’s cut its credit rating to “junk,” raising risks of an outflow of foreign funds and a squeeze on external borrowing.

DW Brings Suit Against Ministry of Youth and Sport

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A German media outlet Deutsche Welle has brought suit against the Turkey’s Ministry of Youth and Sport on the grounds that records of an interview made with the Minister Kılıç has been seized.

Deutsche Welle sues Turkish Sports Ministry over seized interview footage

German media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) has filed a lawsuit against the Turkish Youth and Sports Ministry after the latter seized video footage of an interview conducted with its minister for a program featured on the outlet’s TV channel

Brussels allows PYD congress

The Eighth Congress of the European wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Ankara accuses of being an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was held in Brussels on Sept. 24

Junking Turkey

Everyone agrees that if the coup attempt on July 15 had succeeded, Turkey’s economy would have gone into a tailspin.

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