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Own your own data
Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Privacy is a thing of the past, the founder of Facebook declared. A “social norm” that “has evolved over time.” Could that be true? written by Reinier Kist, NRC Handelsblad Barely a day passes without the media reporting on a database leaking large amounts of personal…
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Stop censorship for students and scientists in Groningen
The University of Groningen blocks Bittorrent, a file exchange protocol. This is a violation of academic freedom, Danny Mekic’ states. In 1158, the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe, accepted the Constitutio Habita, a manifesto written by Frederick I of Hohenstaufen, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This manifesto described students’ and scholars’…