Countries that Protect Data Well
What countries in the world are best at providing your online data from governments and from companies? I’m trying to find an excellent map showing where the best…
Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
What countries in the world are best at providing your online data from governments and from companies? I’m trying to find an excellent map showing where the best…
some Intellectual Property Basics, Terry Fisher at ILaw
How the Stop Online Privacy Act works — and why you should tell your Senator to oppose it.
How cookies work online, from visual.ly
A study from Aleecia McDonald and Lorrie Cranor, from Carnegie Mellon, explaining how people can easily get confused about who is tracking them online, what information is…
Where all the Trackers Know Your Name Jonathan Mayer, at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, explains how online trackers get sent personally identifiable information…
An excellent visualization of a legal process! How Laws are Made – from Design for America
How can you keep users aware of the privacy choices of their browsing? There’s a new crop of visual tools that let the Internet-user see who is…
Mitchell Baker of Mozilla speaks at the Access conference, 10/26/2011 in SF, on Silicon Valley and Human Rights
A new social network has come out of Florida, with mom Natasha Dedis at its helm, to let users choose what ads are shown on their network, and…
As designers increasingly take on social problems abroad as thier own wicked problems to design solutions for, the same questions that have been troubling development specialists for the…
Arvind Narayanan used the example of LiveJournal to scout out some features which could be built into social networks to allow greater control over sharing and privacy. First:…
Many cities are using “311 Apps” on mobile devices or on Facebook to let citizens report basic city problems — potholes, graffiti, etc — to their local representatives.…
More ideas for using tech to improve human rights of political detainees… This is one of my ideas, to create an easy software platform to make ‘human rights…
A very instructive & fun cartoon flow chart on illegal immigration. More legal information design, for clarity & playfulness! From Terry Colon, published in Reason Magazine.
California Common Sense is a new Palo Alto-based non-profit that is trying to gather together all of the data about the state’s government, and then process it into…
Making Policy Public brings designers, advocates and policy makers together to produce clear visions of how government, law, and policy work. This PDF provides immigrants with clear…
One of my submissions for Amnesty Intl/OpenIdeo’s call for ideas on – How Can Technology help people working to uphold human rights of in the face of unlawful…
Swedish Development Agency: Internet & Democratic Change The conference will happen on October 26, 2011 — and will be broadcast over the Internet. The topic is net activism,…