For the past few weekends, I’ve been gradually deleting information from my Facebook account. Each Sunday, a few more photos come down. That’s because I read Rebecca MacKinnon’s call to arms, Consent of the Networked, which shows that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are acquiring the size and power of nation-states, but without the democratic accountability or transparency citizens may demand of the states that govern them. Mackinnon asks, “How do we make sure that people with power over our digital lives will not abuse that power?”
[REPORT] Test and Treat? 聚焦：化验和治疗？
Consent and confidentiality: challenges in HIV testing
A growing chorus of countries, NGOs
and foundations at the conference called for routine testing as an effective
strategy for HIV prevention. However, a number of panels and sessions at the
conference disagreed with this approach, suggesting that rights abuses related
to drives to scale up HIV testing can actually undermine AIDS prevention.
同意与保密：艾滋病化验中的挑战
越来越多的国家、非政府组织和基金会都一致呼吁将例行化验作为预防艾滋病的有效措施。但是大会上，许多专门小组和专项会议不同意这个方法，并指出，和急于扩大艾滋病病毒化验相关的权利侵犯，将破坏艾滋病的预防工作。
