Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
The dragons are back, from Ankara to Moscow, hoodwinking their peoples while claiming to protect them from non-existent threats. Some of their subjects tolerate them; many cheer them on. Shvarts captures it all: the lies which tyrants spread to mask their depredations as patriotism, their cynical insistence that resistance is futile and their need to murder those who speak the truth.
Local police are often able to access very powerful surveillance tools — including cellphone tracking devices, automatic…
Posted by NPR on Wednesday, January 27, 2021
On police use of automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs
invasive technologies
Stingray IMSI Catcher (international mobile subscriber information)
Notifications
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53402901-we-see-it-all
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=surveillance
Tens of thousands took to the streets across Russia, sharing photos and videos on social media faster than they could be removed, urging others to join.
Posted by NPR on Sunday, January 24, 2021
But the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor quickly jumped to pressure social media platforms to remove videos that it said called for minors to participate in protests, warning that it was illegal for them to do so. On Friday, the government claimed that 38% of all offending videos on TikTok, 50% on YouTube and 17% on Instagram had been removed. By Saturday Roskomnadzor said more messages had been deleted on TikTok and Russian social media app Vkontakte. Facebook and Google, the owners of Instagram and YouTube respectively, expressed uncertainty about the accuracy of the numbers, Gizmodo reported.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=censor
Youtube, TikTok and Instagram Delete Russian Posts Promoting Navalny Protests from r/worldnews
Social media platforms are taking down Russians’ calls to protest in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny over the government’s claims that they illegally incite minors to attend unauthorized rallies.
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more on censorship in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=censor
Libraries Transforming Communities: Introduction to Dialogue & Deliberation for Academic Libraries
