How do you connect people who have no Internet? How do you build a wireless network outside of the official wireless ISPs? These are questions the Open Technology Institute wants to answer in Detroit with Commotion, an open source, wireless mesh networking technology trial.

A section of Detroit will be the proving ground for a new open source wireless networking technology called Commotion. Commotion is a mesh networking technology that creates a wireless local area network for devices. The network can connect users to each other and with an Internet connection and can connect them to the greater web. [...]

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/18/detroit-is-the-testing-ground-for-a-new-ope...

Strasburgo vota due risoluzioni che sollecitano la Commissione europea a proporre regole ad hoc. Concorrenza, trasparenza e libertà digitale i principi da tutelare. [...]

Ma la questione della Net Neutrality attraversa sotto pelle anche le trattive in corso al WCIT di Dubai, dove alcune proposte presentate da membri dell’ITU non occidentali, e per ora accantonate, evocano di estendere la giurisdizione dei trattati ITRs alla rete a mo’ di grimaldello per stringere le maglie dei controlli e delle restrizioni sul traffico digitale. Sarà anche guardando agli sviluppi della conferenza mondiale sulle Tlc, che il Parlamento, per la seconda volta in giorno, torna a chiedere che il principio della NN sia codificato a livello comunitario “mediante una normativa adeguata”, in questo caso “in modo da rafforzare la credibilità dell'Unione in termini di promozione e difesa delle libertà digitali nel mondo”. [...]

http://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tlc/18703_net-neutrality-europarlame...

The European Parliament has passed two resolutions in favor of net neutrality, just as the issue rears its ugly head at the WCIT summit. But neither the pro nor anti factions look likely to get their way. [...]

I asked Kroes’s office if there was any response to the new European Parliament resolutions, but sadly there is not. However, if we’re in the mood for reading between the lines, there may be something to pull out of Kroes’s blog post today on the WCIT conference. [...] So, she doesn’t seem to think there’s a need to change EU law on net neutrality (sorry, Parliament), but she also doesn’t want an internationally binding treaty that prohibits the practice (sorry, ETNO). [...]

http://gigaom.com/europe/why-the-battle-over-net-neutrality-isnt-getting...

Is it impolitic to ask the French privacy regulator a personal question about her Internet habits? Perhaps, but Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of the country’s data protection agency, is perfectly forthcoming in her answer. [...]

The agency has taken the lead role among the 27 European authorities on data protection in an investigation of a new privacy policy that Google introduced this year to streamline the previously separate practices for data use in dozens of Google services. Last month, CNIL ordered the company to make changes to the policy or face disciplinary action. [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/technology/guarding-a-fundamental-righ...