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References for the Family Guide, June 2007 edition

These are all the links referenced in the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, June 2007 edition. Should you find any error or link which doesn't work anymore, please let us know.

  • A Potential Future: Dinner talks in 2030
  1. The Right To Read

  • 1: How much of my life is digital?
  1. Definition of Digit
  2. Digital fingerprints and RFID
  3. Flickr, a popular photgraph-sharing website
  4. Example of social bookmarking

  • 2: Who owns information, ideas and fun?
  1. The Winnie the Pooh monopoly
  2. A real lawsuit for Barney copyright violation based on "baseless legal threats"
  3. Barney's "prehistoric understanding of copyright and trademark laws"
  4. The Harry Potter bullying debate
  5. Scientists could not let aliens know about the Beatles...
  6. ...and the one making money out of it is Michael Jackson
  7. Copyright extension harms diffusion of Pirandello plays
  8. The Gowers Review on copyright in the United Kingdom
  9. Paying 900 USD dollars for 15 seconds of your own home movie

  • 3: How much do we all pay for software?
  1. Definition of software
  2. A very common show: the Blue Screen of Death
  3. Another Flickr gallery on the Blue Screen of Death
  4. Even McDonald's drive-thrus are affected
  5. Expensive software is hidden in almost every service you use

  • 4: Are our governments spying on us? How much?
  1. Echelon report available online
  2. F.B.I dropped demands for Library Patron Records
  3. Unrestricted USA access to worldwide bank data
  4. Official complaints from the European Community
  5. 2007 USA law proposal to track people' online activities
  6. Wiretapping program proposed in Sweden in March 2007
  7. UK bill for data sharing and comparisons between public and private databases
  8. Rumors of Internet usage analysis software inside AT&T offices
  9. Automatic, real-time, large scale analysis of Internet usage
  10. Being forced to hand over private files to the Police
  11. D. Korff, human rights lawyer and data protection expert

  • 5: Do we still have some privacy?
  1. Sun CEO statement on privacy
  2. Sale of private customers data
  3. People privacy easily violated online
  4. Private Internet searches of 650,000 people published online
  5. Internet index of people faces
  6. Publishing obscene content under other people's name
  7. Private messages published online
  8. Pictures telling which camera shot them
  9. Sold cell phones still contain owner's data
  10. Photocopiers privacy risks
  11. Contacts of dead relatives locked forever?
  12. Father cannot access data of dead son
  13. Lost password locks electronic library

  • 6: What are Biometrics and RFID?
  1. Paying groceries with fingerprints
  2. Fooling fingerprint recognition devices
  3. Replaceable biometrics
  4. RFID tags need no batteries to work
  5. RFID passports tags read and cloned in less than five minutes
  6. Implanting tags in the arms of hospital patients
  7. Millions of Americans implanted with RFID tags for medical purposes
  8. Human implantable tags
  9. "Big Brother in small packages"

  • 7: Should all the computers and computer programs of the world be equal?
  1. When Icelanders could not use computers in their own language

  • 8: Do We Still Need Papyrus?
  1. The nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz...
  2. ... and its vanishing diagrams
  3. Space data saved by hand by students
  4. Only papyrus is still reliable
  5. Many States cannot use digital archives

  • 9: What Do I Really Lose Without Net Neutrality?
  1. YouTube
  2. Engineer denounces security flaws
  3. Net Neutrality Frequently Answered Questions
  4. Bill against Net Neutrality rejected by U.S. Congress
  5. Net Neutrality "indispensable for the future of the Internet"

  • 10: Are computers really needed in (basic) education?
  1. Software in classrooms may make no difference
  2. When computers dumb down young people
  3. Integrating computers in the existing curriculum
  4. University students unable to articulate thoughts
  5. Parents denouncing misuse of computers at school
  6. Taking myths and mysticism out of Wikipedia
  7. Many teachers still barely know how to operate a mouse
  8. The "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) Project...
  9. ...to which India officially said "no, thanks"
  10. Lack of trust in the OLPC founders

  • 12: My child wants to be a hacker. Should I worry?
  1. What the term hacker really means
  2. Something so uselessly stupid as illegally downloading music, movies or software
  3. Make Magazine

  • 13: My children "share files" with their friends: are they always criminals?
  1. A parent sued by the recording industry
  2. Uploading and downloading of songs defined illegal
  3. Necessary evil by way of transition to a new, copyright-free age
  4. Search engines for Free music, movie and texts

  • 14: I Can Record TV Programs, Can't I?
  1. Is format shifting of legitimate recordings illegal?
  2. New format shifting laws evaluated in New Zealand
  3. CD to CD copy is not format shifting
  4. What became legal in Australia only in May 2006?
  5. ... and what may became illegal in the same country?
  6. Incompatible High Definition devices
  7. Who owns your television?

  • 15: Can I Publish My Own Movies?
  1. The Hidden Cost of Documentaries
  2. "Mad Hot Ballroom" survived only... haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene"
  3. Copyright and the (USA) constitutional mandate
  4. Hidden traps of the MPEG4 format

  • 16: What is this DRM thing I keep hearing about?
  1. DRM doesn't stop online piracy
  2. "as consumers, we can't decide anymore on what we'll watch"

  • 17: What Is Trusted Computing?
  1. New computers without locks soon becoming a rarity

  • 18: When Is Fair Use Fair Enough?
  1. Some dangerous copyright myths
  • 19: Does Software pollute?
  1. The average USA citizen produces 4.6 lbs of solid waste per day
  2. Windows Vista? A "landfill nightmare"
  3. Environmental impact of the whole "One Laptop Per Child" project
  4. E-waste report of the United Nations University
  5. Hi-tech workers suing their employers because of serious illnesses
  6. E-waste causes some types of cancer
  7. Health report on semiconductor and hard disks factories
  8. E-waste health hazards moved overseas
  9. 133,000 PCs discarded each day in the U.S. alone
  10. E-waste seven deadly sins

  • 20: Does software waste energy?
  1. Google call for more efficient computer power supplies
  2. Average computers costing up to 158 USD per year of electricity
  3. Companies could save thousands of pounds by switching computers off every evening
  4. Home gadgets on standby waste huge amounts of energy

  • 22: Would all the other businesses and jobs suffer be better off without the Digital Dangers?
  1. The customers of a pub cannot use the software of that pub
  2. Small businesses more likely to receive software fines
  3. The "anti-fraud" feature of Internet Explorer
  4. Victims of data theft are hundreds of millions
  5. Employees personal information stolen with company laptop
  6. 80 per cent of companies may easily switch to alternative software
  7. OpenOffice.org

  • 23: The tax on future, alleged guilt
  1. Portion of the revenue from Zune sales goes to music company
  2. Swedish proposal to triple the price of blank DVDs
  3. Increase in price of Canadian CDs
  4. 542 million Euros of "copyright levies"fees
  5. Copyright lobbies ignoring public opinion or pressure
  6. EU notes on levy reform

  • 24: The Digital Troubles of politicians and the Military
  1. Official dossier on Iraq's security and intelligence organizations...
  2. ...and who had worked on that dossier
  3. Impasse in USA-UK negotiations for the Joint Strike Fighter
  4. UK Government urged to look for alternatives
  5. USA military ship "dead in the water"

  • 25: Is E-Voting a solution? To which problem?
  1. Young peoples unable to count properly
  2. The worst security flaw seen in voting machines
  3. Voting machines not set up properly
  4. Voting machine failures stroke again in Alaska
  5. Vogint machine failure forces hand count of votes
  6. Hotel Minibar Keys can open voting machines
  7. Analysys of the status of e-voting
  8. Open Voting Foundation

  • 26: Can freedom of speech and participation be actually practiced?
  1. Internet-led consumer campaign
  2. USA Accountability Bill Put on "Secret Hold"
  3. Online database of Federal Government spending

  • 27: What Is Web Usability, And Why Should I Care?
  1. "A Fresh Look at Internet Speed"
  2. Target department stores sued by disabled Internet users

  • 28: Does it make sense to buy a computer and not install software on it?
  1. Reduced computer interfaces

  • 29: Is it technically possible to block or restrict Internet Access?
  1. Internet censorship in China
  2. Internet censorship study of the Open Net Initiative
  3. How they bypass some of these restrictions
  4. Online censorship also in Vietnam...
  5. ...Saudi Arabia...
  6. ... and Iran
  7. EU proposal on "safer use of the Internet"

  • 30: Is that really you?
  1. Online identity system called "Higgins"
  2. "universal ID system"
  3. OpenID

  • 31: Are digital communications safe? Can they be used without hassles?
  1. Email is very easy to forge
  2. Black lists of Internet providers which tolerate spam
  3. Invitation to boycott that provider and all its users

  • 32: When does Internet Telephony Make Sense?
  1. Emergency calls via VoIP to greatly increase in 2007
  2. 911 still a joke for VoIP customers
  3. Unavailability of 911 services for VoIP customers have already happened
  4. VoIP security problems
  5. Attempts to develop a secure VoIP system
  6. The Zfone
  7. Supply emergency calling capabilities

  • 35: Software and copyright fanatism and opportunism
  1. "the moderate position is the most radical of all"

  • 40: Must all software, be free, or all proprietary?
  1. Free Software Foundation
  2. The right software components already exist

  • 42: What Is OpenDocument?
  1. Format wars
  2. OpenDocument
  3. The worldwide standard for paper sheet sizes

  • 43: What must be done to protect privacy?
  1. 27% of USA employers already check the profile of all their job candidates online
  2. Putting clear and fair limits on how digital data can be used

  • 46: Are Public Websites Done Right?
  1. Websites Done Right
  2. Professional web designers strongly criticize British DTI official website
  3. Official explanation from DTI on how the website had been commissioned
  4. Italia.it...
  5. ...was just a "Coming Soon" page for many months...
  6. ...which caused requests for official investigations...
  7. ... and the birth of a whole website fully devoted to investigate and reports on the matter
  8. Websites Done Right

  • 47: How Can A Parent Fight The Digital Dangers?
  1. A partial solution
  2. Database of freely and legally copiable creative works

  • 48: How to recognize a really good ICT School Program, and why
  1. Public Universities distributing proprietary software for free
  2. European Computer Driving License (ECDL)
  3. Wonderful opportunity to spread better and less expensive software
  4. Digitally Free Schools

  • 49: How All Internet Users Can Fight The Digital Dangers
  1. Firefox
  2. Website Done Right campaign

  • 50: What Are Other Countries Doing?
  1. Open source software and platforms such as Linux
  2. Vietnam Master Plan for Open Source Software
  3. Gnu/Linux for the French Parliament
  4. Overhaul of South Korea national mapping system
  5. Denmark could save about 94 million USD using OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument
  6. "Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government"
  7. Public Administrations supporting OpenDocument
  8. Berlin Senate opposes a complete migration to Free Software
  9. EU Commissioner criticizes Ipod lock-in

  • 51: Living among digits and hackers: survival tips
  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • Conclusion: act and spread the word
  1. Blacklist of countries believed to be persistent offenders of copyright and other IP-related regulations
  • By master_editor at 2007-06-24 05:23