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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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Erdoğan calls on Muslim countries to unite against US 9/11 bill

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Oct. 2 urged Islamic nations to unite in solidarity against a newly passed bill in the U.S. that allows families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for their losses.

Erdoğan sends strong messages to EU, US

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sent strong messages to the European Union over its attitude toward Turkey and the United States over its policies in the Middle East.

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Put extra money in their pocket and get the rating you want: Erdoğan on rating agencies

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lashed out at rating agencies, after Moody’s downgraded the country’s sovereign debt rating to “junk” status.

Turkey should focus on economic reforms, not credit ratings: Timothy Ash

Turkey should focus on making economic reforms and promoting its strengths rather than blaming credit rating agencies for unfair rates, Timothy Ash, a London-based strategist at Nomura International, said on Oct. 4.

German prosecutors drop investigation against comedian who insulted Turkish president

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

German prosecutors have dropped an investigation into comedian Jan Boehmermann over a ribald poem he wrote about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports the BBC.

Israel pays $20 mln compensation to Turkey for flotilla raid

The Israeli government on Sept. 30 paid $20 million in compensation to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara flotilla raid in 2010, which led to the suspension of diplomatic ties between the two countries before a reconciliation deal was reached earlier this year, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.

Turkey’s tourism industry reels from a year to forget

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch

Hope is in short supply for those involved in Turkish tourism after bomb attacks and a failed coup in the country this year. From Istanbul to Ankara, Antalya to Mardin, visitor numbers remain woefully low and businesses are laying off staff

With this year’s season drawing to a close, the Turkish tourism sector is reeling from a year of devastating losses. Bomb attacks, unrest in the south-east of the country and a violent coup attempt – followed by mass arrests during a state of emergency – have kept tourists away. According to estimates by the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (Türsab), Turkey might lose between £2bn and £2.5bn in tourism revenue by the end of this year.

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For the record; #Redhack hacks led to a high level resignation at Doğan Media Group…

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A major shake-up at Doğan Media

Doğan Media Group coordinator Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ announced his resignation from the post, approved by the group’s Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan on Sept. 30

RedHack Leaks Reveal the Rise of Turkey’s Pro-Government Twitter Trolls
The Daily Dot
Leaked emails from the Turkish government provide new details of how Turkey’s pro-government Twitter troll army targets the opposition and silences media criticism in the media. Last Friday,RedHack, a Marxist hacker group, claimed to have hacked

Turkish media boss quits after email ‘scam’ fuels press freedom fears
Reuters
In a statement announcing his resignation, Mehmet Ali Yalcindag denied that the emails leaked on social media this week by the leftist RedHack group had come from him, and vowed to take legal action. He described the act as an “ugly scam”.
Turkey media boss quits over ‘hacked email’ scandalBusiness Standar

Doğan Media Group Chair Yalçındağ Resigns After RedHack’s Leak

Bianet :: English

Doğan Media Group Chair Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ has resigned after RedHack has published his e-mail correspondence with Minister of Energy Albayrak.

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Nice piece: Encrypting Ethnography: Digital Security for Researchers- Anthropology roundup…

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Encrypting Ethnography: Digital Security for Researchers

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Imagine a situation in which everything you do on your computer, tablet or telephone is easily available to local authorities, criminal organizations, corporations or even your neighbors or their teenage children. Imagine that your electronic diary is public and anyone can read everything you have written about the people you work with. Every piece of secret, confidential information you have been entrusted with is being read. It doesn’t matter if you use nicknames and codewords – someone who knows the context of your fieldsite will figure it out. With the use of special software, all your text, photographs, videos and sound recordings can be quickly and automatically analyzed, regardless of the language you write in. Moreover, imagine that all of your communications with your colleagues, sponsoring institutions or supervisors are also publicly available. This includes field reports, emails, video conversations, instant messaging, phone calls.

The “How Does a Forensic Anthropologist Work?” Edition

 Slate Articles by Arun Venugopal

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Creative Writing club presents: Inter-Galactic Anthropology
Quad (subscription)
It has been three solar periods since my arrival on Earth, and so far my true nature has not been exposed. 9936 was very clear when addressing our expedition crew: our true identities were not to be revealed. When we stepped foot on Earth soil we would

Environmental studies lecturer wins anthropology association public policy award
UC Santa Cruz
Barbara Rose Johnston, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer in environmental studies, has been named a winner of the 2015Anthropology in Public Policy Award from the AmericanAnthropological Association. Johnston, a senior fellow at the Center for Political .

3-D Printed Fossils Transforming Anthropology
WVXU

Shortly after the discovery of Homo naledi (a new ancestor of humans), Miami University says its anthropology students can hold precise plastic replicas of some of the fossils. Students looking at websites about the discovery found that the research …

APES Creates Anthropology Community
Fordham Ram (registration)
Fordham University is home to over 90 student clubs and organizations, nearly 30 of which are categorized as “academic.” But in recent memory, there has never been a club associated with one of Fordham’s major social science departments:Anthropology.

Andrew Hill: An anthropologist who devoted much time to Abu Dhabi’s wilderness
The National

The Englishman was the J Clayton Stephenson professor ofanthropology at Yale University, and a curator and head of the division of anthropology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Before coming to the famed Ivy League school in 1985 he .

Anthropology class uncovers 100-year-old bones on Hilton Head Island
WTOC
“It’s not surprising to find bones in a mausoleum for the most part, but it was surprising here, only because nobody has been entered here for so many years and we weren’t expecting any remains,” said Kimberly Cavanagh, Anthropology Assistant Professor ..

UB anthropologist named Jean Monnet Chair
UB News Center

 

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Deborah Reed-Danahay, professor of culturalanthropology in the Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Jean Monnet Chair teaching post from the European ..

Hispanic Heritage Month: Anthropology of coconuts
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Rojas came to the US while in high school briefly, and then went back to Puerto Rico to finish high school and bachelor’s degree inanthropology and archeology. The percentage of people with degrees in Puerto Rico is very high, making it very

List as Form: Literary, Ethnographic, Long, Short, Heavy, Light

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Carole McGranahan

[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Sasha Su-Ling Welland as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sasha is Associate Professor ofAnthropology and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Rowman & Littlefield 2006) and a forthcoming book on gender and globalization in Chinese contemporary art (Duke University Press).]

The Story of Seething & being a little bit Stupid

Material World by Haidy Geismar

David Jeevendrampillai, UCL Anthropology

Image 1: The Story of Seething Exhibition. Jan – May 2015. UCL Anthropology (Photo Credit: Timothy Carroll).

UCL promotes itself as a leading global university and frequently ranks amongst the top institutions in the world; it also houses the UK’s largest Anthropology department. The department has an international reputation as a leader in Anthropological research with a particular history and strength in material culture studies. Upon entering the department’s central London campus one is greeted by a reception replete with well-lit display cases which house exhibitions of current UCL research and items from the extensive and rich Ethnographic Collection.

Anthropologies #21: Betwixt and Between: Geological Phase Transition, Adaptive Co-Management, and Anthropology

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #21 series.

The next piece in the anthropologies climate change series comes from Michael Agar. His bio is here. Check out more of his work on the rest of the Ethnoworks site, or email him at magar AT umd dot edu. –R.A.

Homo Naledi’s other revolution

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see thatthe initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this was a huge relief for, now that my adjunct teaching days are done and I am gainfully employed in the museum sector, I no longer have access to journals through a university library. (But, then again, I won’t have to rewrite my human evolution lecture. So there’s that.)

Hispanic Heritage Month: Anthropology of coconuts
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Anthropology: One-man multidisciplinarian
Nature.com
Richard Francis Burton (1821–90) thirsted for and mastered knowledge in so many fields — from geography to sexology — that his real legacy for science is muddied. The flamboyant polymath was an eminent explorer, a pioneer of ethnography and a .

 

Forensic Anthropology Testimony In Haiti’s Raboteau Massacre Digitized At Duke …
Forbes
The entire six-week trial was covered by Radio Haiti, the first independent radio station in the country, and includes the testimony of forensic anthropologist Karen Ramey Burns, a specialist in using skeletal remains as evidence of human rights abuses.

 

Race to Revolution reviewed in Dialectical Anthropology

Monthly Review

Monthly Review

Race to Revolution reviewed in Dialectical Anthropology Monthly Review Among the strengths of Gerald Horne’s Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow is its timing; it arrives at the moment of the first real movement in US–Cuban diplomatic relations since the imposition of the blockade in …

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EFD Haftanın Web Projesi: Moneta Dijital Çocuk Atölyesi

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Bizler, internet ve bilgisayar dünyasının çeşitli alanlarında üretim yapan ve çocuklara değer veren bir ekibiz. Güçlerimizi birleştirerek bir araya geldik ve geleceğin sahibi olan çocuklara bilgilerimizi aktarmaya karar verdik. Akademik ve sektörel gücümüzü, yaratıcılığımızla birleştirerek 10-15 yaş arasındaki çocuklara özel eğitimler sunan bu atölyeyi kurduk. Atölyemizde teknoloji, internet ve sosyal medya dünyasına ait çeşitli eğtim modülleri yer almaktadır. Çocuğunuzun erken yaşta teknolojiyi bilinçli kullanarak geleceğe hazır olmasını istiyorsanız hafta sonları yapılacak olan eğitimlerimize kayıt yaptırabilirsiniz

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