Eben Moglen could be seen as one of the most important individuals in the FLOSS/foss community. He is currently a Professor of Law at "Columbia University", also the Director-Counsel and Chairman of "Software Freedom Law Center". Up until recently he has been a board member and general counsel for the "Free Software Foundation", in this role he helped develop the "GNU General Public License version 3". On the 5th of February 2011 he founded the "Freedom Box Foundation". This foundation is to prevent the centralization of personal information into large organisations like Facebook and other organizations, but instead to allow people to hold onto their private information and control it.
The youtube video below is from his talk at ISOC-NY on the 5th of Feburary 2010. This video discusses his idea's and concerns of our privacy and freedoms on the internet.
Its interesting that most people seem to forget who they're feeding their information to when they sign up for a facebook or other online account. Though this may seem like a bit of a conspiracy theory apparently the CIA is one of the largest funders of Facebook (though that makes sens since its a place where people voluntarily give up any and all information about themselves.)
ReplyDeleteAnyways here another video you might be interested in(if you haven't already seen it). Its a speech by a private detective. The title is somewhat self explanatory.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3079242748023143842#
Oh I forgot to include the title its "Privacy is Dead, Get over it" by Steve Rambam
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