Human Rights

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Father Of Internet: Internet Isn’t A Human Right

6:10AM January 6, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Vint Cerf knows the internet. He co-created it in its baby military form, and he nows serves as Google’s “Internet Evangelist”. You might be surprised, then, when he says the internet isn’t a human right — but he’s correct. More »

News

Google And George Clooney Aim Satellites At Sudan, Become "Anti-Genocide Paparazzi"

9:00AM December 30, 2010 | Jenara Nerenberg - Fast Company

Ahead of an early January referendum, the two partners, along with Harvard and the United Nations, want Sudanese rebels to know that they are being watched. More »

Entertainment

The Best Of The Year In Rants

5:40AM December 28, 2010 | Gizmodo Staff

There was plenty to be angry about this year; the Gulf Oil Spill, assaults on net neutrality, Mark Zuckerberg winning Time’s Person of the Year. Check out the best rants from our most irate writers in 2010. More »

Computing

Scary: Florida To Use Computers To Predict Criminal Behaviour

9:20AM April 15, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

There are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights! More »

Microsoft Supplier Factory Workers Live “Like Prisoners”

3:54AM April 15, 2010 | John Herrman

This you should know: There is a good chance that the gadgets you use every day were manufactured by workers who are miserable. This fact has ensnared Apple (and others) on numerous occasions, and now it’s Microsoft’s turn. More »

Your Keyboards May Have Been Made In Appalling Conditions

6:20AM February 11, 2009 | Jason Chen

I don’t mean to get super human-rights on everyone, but if you’re using a keyboard from Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Lenovo or HP, there’s a chance it was made under some horrific working conditions.

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HIV/AIDS Patients to Be Tagged with RFID Chips

5:36AM November 26, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

In the ultimate Nazi-inspired exercise of destruction of the most basic human rights, Indonesian politicians are planning to tag all HIV/AIDS patients with radio frequency identification chips. Their objective is to monitor people who had shown “actively sexual behavior”. The Himmler-wannabe proposing the law has no qualms in explaining it:

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