The Internet and Social Networks – Good and Bad

So Egypt decided to shutdown the internet. Apparently they have some type of kill switch. But could it happen here? How has Web 2.0 affected our lives, politics, humanity? Apparently, the there is kill-switch legislation before congress. This legislation would empower the president to pull the plug during ‘national emergency’. What is the first rule when [...]

Protecting Digital Identities, Part 1

A Digital Identity is the mechanism used to identify an individual to computers, networks, the internet, and social media. In a general case, digital identity is the digital fingerprint of an individual – or of an entity other than an individual – in either case, it is generically called the Digital Subject. But whatever it [...]