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Government ramps up controls on FinSpy surveillance software
Bureau of Investigative Journalism FinSpy is now classed as a 'dual use' technology, capable of being used for both civilian and military purposes. As such, it now will require an export licence granted by the UK Government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for all sales … |
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
read more gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section — When read more launched in 2002, it did so with some declarations: “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.” And: “No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.”
Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gizmodo taps illustrators to give stories more punch, pop, pow! — When Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam was planning for this week’s coverage of the Verizon iPhone, he didn’t think in words. He visualized it entirely in images, daydreaming about how much more emotive pictures and sounds …