Bitcoin user numbers and investment are set to double every 12 months, commentator Willy Woo has forecast.
Citing data from Google, the increasingly controversial Woo calculates that Bitcoin doubles its users every 371 days.
The Cointelegraph » Bitcoin User Base Doubling Every 12 Months: Google Trends »
From almost a standing start, Sweden has a copyright troll crisis on its hands. Following a ruling by the Patent and Market Court, ISP Telia must hand over the personal details of individuals behind 5,300 IP addresses to companies known to make a business out of settlement fees. In all, around 20,000 persons could be sucked into the controversy.
Torrentfreak: Court Orders ISP to Hand Identities Behind 5,300 IP Addresses to Copyright Trolls »
In November the BGH ruled that Snowden should be invited to Berlin and that the government make preparations to ensure his safety, raising the intriguing possibility that Berlin would have to provide protection to one of the most wanted men in the US. But then the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats appealed the decision. (…)
(T)he court made a U-turn in a ruling published Wednesday.
EDRi has signed a joint open letter together with 27 other civil society organisations expressing concerns about European Commission’s copyright proposal. The proposal requires internet platforms to use automated upload filtering technologies. This obligation would impact negatively on free speech and democracy by building a system where citizens will face internet platforms blocking the upload of their content, even if it is a perfectly legal use of copyrighted content.
EDRi: Civil society urges EU institutions to stop the “censorship machine” in the copyright proposal »
Also, read » Copyright Directive: Lead MEP partly deletes the “censorship machine” »
“It’s like this perfect test case,” says Andrew Ferguson, a professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia. “Alexa is only one of the smart devices in that guy’s house. I don’t know if all of them were on or recording, but if you were going to set up a hypothetical situation to decide if the internet of things could be used as an investigative tool, you’ve got this mysterious hot tub murder.”
Techcrunch: Can your smart home be used against you in court? »
TBL:s three points of interest:
• We’ve lost control of our personal data
• It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web
• Political advertising online needs transparency and understanding
The Guardian » Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it »
The Hacker News: 10 Things You Need To Know About ‘Wikileaks CIA Leak’ »
Wired: The fallout from the CIA’s zero-day stash will impact everyone »
How the EU set up a private-public forum to censor the Internet – and denied EDRi access to documents, as it would expose the bureaucracy’s »decision-making process«.
Which pretty much is the whole idea. You should not have extrajudicial censorship, especially not without democratic accountability.
EDRi: The tale of the fight for transparency in the EU Internet Forum »
WikiLeaks will give technology companies access to information it has about the CIA’s hacking tools, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday.
Assange said the organization will give details to let technology companies “develop fixes” before the information is published more widely, USA Today reported.
The Hill: WikiLeaks will give info on CIA hacking to tech companies »
