Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was just shut down by the Feds following an order issued by a U.S District Court. As you can read in the image below, the federal grand Jury has indicted several individual and news sites report that the US Department of Justice arrested four people and executed more than 20 search...

SOPA is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. If passed the bill would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. After...

Jun 13, 2010 As we move into an era of a digital (r)evolution we are facing new questions and challenges that touch our very intimate human privacy and rights. Like never before, we are able to store and process data in huge amounts and like never before our reliance on computer and digital systems is increasing exponentially....

I’ve heard the word twitter, politics, social media, arabspring so many times last week (again) – so I decided to finally yield to some temptation and do some analytics on how some politicians are using twitter by generating fact numbers. From the tweeps,  @BarackObama seems to be doing a good job and is an...