Social Shares: Who’s downloading your data?; America offline; a new election Source

The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.

• America Offline: Reuters interactive shows which parts of the United States have limited broadband and are facing Post Office closures.
• Twitter admits to downloading phone contacts from users and storing them for up to 18 months, without informing users.
• iWatch News and OpenSecrets.org have launched Source 2012, a new Tumblr following the money behind the 2012 elections.
• Inspiring words to live by from a Hacker Society Talk.
• Boys will hire boys: Amanda Hess explains how the media is male and getting maler.

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