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Par anglais03 le 11 Mars 2014 à 21:14
video on BBC NEWS FUTURE
Giving net lessons to the world’s poorest
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Par anglais03 le 8 Mars 2014 à 20:40
Progress?
A regarder, avec ou sans sous-titres
http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together?embed=true
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Par anglais03 le 14 Février 2014 à 19:53
SLOW DOWN! FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html
SCRIPT AND SUBTITLES ON SITE!
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Par anglais03 le 3 Janvier 2014 à 21:42
TIME MAGAZINE
article + video
Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet
He pulled off the year's most spectacular heist. Exiled from his country, the 30-year-old computer whiz has become the doomsayer of the information age
Clemency for Edward Snowden would not set a dangerous precedent
(The Atlantic)
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Par anglais03 le 2 Janvier 2014 à 11:18
The lighter side :
Scandinavian scientists develop "dog to English" 'translator'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25559116
conclusion: Why learn English?
So that you can understand your dog! (LOL)
Much less funny : on NPR
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Par anglais03 le 2 Janvier 2014 à 10:52
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Par anglais03 le 30 Décembre 2013 à 19:04
Orwellian or a Blunt Tool?: Conflicting Rulings on NSA Spying Set Up Likely Supreme Court Showdown
A federal judge has upheld the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of U.S. telephone data just days after a separate court reached an opposite opinion. On Friday, District Judge William Pauley dismissed a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the NSA’s mass collection of U.S. phone records. Pauley said telephone metadata could have potentially prevented the 9/11 attacks by alerting the government to hijackers who made phone calls from the United States. The issue will likely head to the Supreme Court — Pauley’s ruling comes less than two weeks after another federal judge questioned the program’s constitutionality and described the bulk collection as "almost Orwellian." We’re joined by two guests: Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director and director of its Center for Democracy; and Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first broke the story about Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks.
Full transcript on site:
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/30/orwellian_or_a_blunt_tool_conflicting?autostart=true
Another report on the NSA :
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/30/glenn_greenwald_the_nsa_can_literally
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Par anglais03 le 26 Décembre 2013 à 20:23
The Guardian and CHANNEL 4
Mr Snowden opened his two-minute message, recorded in Russia, with a reference to novelist George Orwell, author of 1984, saying the surveillance technology described in his works was "nothing compared to what we have today".
Here's the transcript:
Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year.
Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do.
Great Britain's George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book -- microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us -- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go.
Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves -- an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem, because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together, we can find a better balance. End mass surveillance. And remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.
For everyone out there listening, thank you, and Merry Christmas.
Et nos deux pseudo-journalistes de CNN gagnent le "pompon"!
A vous de juger! le "reportage" de CNN est très intéressant d'un certain point de vue : comment développer l'esprit critique de nos lycéens...
reactions to the message on CTV NEWS : http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/snowden-s-alternative-christmas-message-spying-worse-than-in-orwell-s-1984-1.1607821
La page de la BBC sur ce dossier :
The lighter side on the English blog :
Infographic : How the US is spying on its citizens
Other infographics about Snowden
http://www.englishblog.com/2013/12/cartoon-uncle-sam.html#.UrynCbTDsSm
Et de fil en aiguille.....retour sur George Orwell et BBC 4
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