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Using Personal Data to buy Art: The Data Dollar Store

Using Personal Data to buy Art: The Data Dollar Store

Recently, Kaspersky Lab has been in the news due to so-called suspicious activity within their security software system and a supposed link with the Russian government. Both TechCrunch and Wired state that the Department of Homeland Security has “banned...
By Nadine Werner on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Using Personal Data to buy Art: The Data Dollar Store
World Wide Web Consortium and Digital Rights Management: Innovating Stagnation

World Wide Web Consortium and Digital Rights Management: Innovating Stagnation

The history of “Digital Rights Management” software while relatively new, has been quite controversial. Oftentimes advocates of online privacy and security argue about the possibilities of abuse stemming from such DRM technologies, along with activists and proponents of the...
By Nikiforos Pingouras on 09/24/17 Comments Off on World Wide Web Consortium and Digital Rights Management: Innovating Stagnation
From Chocolate Chips to Online – Creating a Cookie Monster

From Chocolate Chips to Online – Creating a Cookie Monster

Project by: Daniël Landman, Nick van der Meulen, Nicola Romagnoli and Seastar So. Link to Final Project. Cookies are the most well-known form of online tracking and can be used for a variety of reasons such as recording personal...
By Daniël Landman on 10/16/15 Comments Off on From Chocolate Chips to Online – Creating a Cookie Monster
How was school today?

How was school today?

“Jeremy hasn’t finished his Math assignment – and it’s not for the lack of trying. Math has been especially difficult this year. The concepts of Speed, Distance and Time seem incomprehensible to him. All his other friends seem to understand the concept...
By Sameena on 09/18/14 Comments Off on How was school today?
Reputation Economy: Digital behavior and data as a benchmark for e-trust

Reputation Economy: Digital behavior and data as a benchmark for e-trust

As Alison Hearn argues in her article, many different user activities such as Blogging, ‘Facebooking’, posting videos on YouTube, writing (informational) reviews and rating services or products are considered as a contribution to the development of the digital public...
By Serkan Yildizeli on 09/11/13 1

‘Headdesking’ and Beyond: The British Uprisings

‘Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not...
By Jamie Franklin on 09/12/11 2

A Domain By Any Other Name

Websites are headed towards major name changes. Recent amendments have authorized the creation of a porn specific .XXX domain, allowed non-Latin alphabet characters into the address bar, and most significantly freed top-level domain names from the conventional endings of...
By Autumn Hand on 09/11/11 1

Craigslist Follow Up

This week Craigslist officially shut down its adult service section of the site in the United States. This follows a short period of censorship. While some are celebrating the decision, blogger Dannah Boyd raises some interesting points on The...
By Natalie Dixon on 09/16/10 Comments Off on Craigslist Follow Up

Who do you think you are?

Review: Karin Spaink, Wie is U? Ever had a Déjà vu, the feeling that you have experienced something before? It’s a strange feeling. You can’t exactly explain what it is and where it comes from, but it’s there. You...
By Chris Hoogeveen on 09/15/10 Comments Off on Who do you think you are?
The Craigslist Circus

The Craigslist Circus

Craigslist censoredLast month a friend was planning a trip to the U.S and while trawling Craigslist for a short-stay apartment in New York she commented on her growing wariness of...
By Natalie Dixon on 09/08/10 1

Chitchat with Vision’s Website Editor

Davis Weddi joined the New Vision in 1996 as a freelance journalist. His first story was placed on the front page of The New Vision on 1st April 1996. It was a fool’s day story of vampires attacking travellers...
By Ali Balunywa on 05/04/09 Comments Off on Chitchat with Vision’s Website Editor
Why is the University of Amsterdam still using IE6?

Why is the University of Amsterdam still using IE6?

IE6 is my grandmother on her deathbed and she just won't die. Her skin is obviously wrinkled and dated, she doesn't have any recollection of the past, and she...
By Chris Castiglione on 12/01/08 9