Around the web

• Tom Watson explained how networked women acted as a rising political force in the 2012 campaign.

• Phil Howard offers ways in which Obama's foreign policy can be savvier about technology and democratization.

• As the Petraeus scandal raises awareness of government agencies' ability to access online accounts, Google released new data showing that government requests for user data or to remove user data spiked in the first half of 2012. The United States had the highest number of data requests at 7,969 involving 16,281 users or accounts, and complied with 90 percent of the requests either fully or partially.

• Max Fisher explained that Jill Kelley and Gen. John Allen probably didn't exchange between 20,000 and 30,000 e-mails. The high number, he wrote, was likely because of printouts containing multiple references to previous conversations.

• Slate notes that David Petraeus could have taken a lesson from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who had raised some eyebrows recently when she said she didn't use e-mail.

• The New York Times and NPR explored the implications of the Petraeus case for online privacy.

• Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) suggested that the FBI's use of FISA warrants indicates that "more than sex" is involved in the scandal.

• As sites like Buzzfeed and Gawker created flowcharts to try and keep track of the growing cast of characters in the Petraeus scandal, a David Petraeus Affair Photos Tumblr has emerged, as has a Downfall parody video.

• Glenn Greenwald argues that the scandal illustrates the "FBI's abuse of the surveillance state." A New Yorker post also wrote about how the "surveillance state has taken friendly fire."

• David Petraeus is the Secretary of Defense in the new Call of Duty video game.

• The L.A. Times has another report on the Obama campaign's data emphasis and its use of computer modeling to locate persuadable voters. The article also notes that the campaign had correctly modeled the outcome in New Hampshire's Dixville Notch, where residents are among the very first Americans to cast a vote. As of election day, Dixville Notch votes were tied, five to five.

• The New York Times wrote about how the Obama campaign was helped by advice from social scientists.

• Pro Publica has tried to summarize "Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics."

• Simon Dumenco has compiled a list of his favorite Obama campaign e-mail subject lines, and is encouraging his readers to find the one among the list that is not authentic.

• A new online campaign called Represent.Us., with a board of advisors that includes former FEC Chair Trevor Potter, Republican strategist Mark McKinnon, Occupy Wall Street member Cecelia Frontero, Tea Party Patriots member Tom Whitmore, Lawrence Lessig and Jack Abramoff, among others, is calling for the passage of the American Anti-Corruption Act.

• Rep. Darrell Issa plans legislation clarifying digital copying rights.

• For TechCrunch, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), explained two Internet freedom bills she recently introduced.

• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has defended a proposed Internet royalty bill.

• Fight for the Future and Access Now have created a new video and website that details how "the ITU could put the Internet behind closed doors," and a website that includes a countdown to the World Conference on International Telecommunications in 18 days.

• The White House revealed that the people who stood behind President Barack Obama during his public remarks Friday were invited to join him after responding to requests for input on whitehouse.gov.

• A new We the People petition is asking that those using the platform to demand that various states secede be stripped of their citizenship.

• Americans for Tax Fairness is running online ads featuring an image of President George W. Bush supporting a petition to "End Bush Tax Cuts for Millionaires."

• The Environment America Research and Policy Center is running online ads for a #PolluterFAIL campaign, with the argument that "this election was one historic #PolluterFAIL...Big polluters and their allies spent big in the 2012 election — and failed big." A website details the "polluter" spending efforts and proposed climate agenda measures supported by the president.

• The New York Times reported on Occupy Wall Street's plans to erase individuals' debt, which a Guardian writer argues is a plan "well spent."

• A College Humor video warning men in states that do not legalize gay marriage that gay men will bite the bullet instead by "marrying your girlfriend" has gone viral.

• Twitter users noticed that the Dole/Kemp 1996 website is still online.

• The Netroots Foundation interviewed the founder of ControlShift Labs, which "essentially allow[s] you replicate what Change does for your member-based organization."

• A Buzzfeed writer argues that online public shaming is appropriate.

• A study found that the number of tracking cookies that collect data from users' online activities has significantly increased in the last five months.

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• A Federal Communications Commission commissioner has proposed a conversation about the reliability of cellphones during emergencies.

• A new Brookings Institution report explores the building of an innovation-based economy.

• A new Tumblr is dedicated to "pundit shaming." One by one, pundits who got on TV to predict that President Barack Obama would lose the election are featured in a screenshot from their appearance and their remarks in full.

• The Washington Post profiled DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine that doesn't track users or personalize results.

• Fast Company looked at how the Red Cross, New York City and Occupy Wall Street responded to Sandy on social media. Storyful also looked at how social media has been used to organize volunteer action.

• A new video documents the Occupy Sandy effort.

• A Change.org petition demands that Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the New York City Housing Authority and the Department of Housing and Urban Development restore power to all NYCHA residents.

• A plan to install smart meters in all Washington D.C. taxi cabs has been indefinitely delayed.

• The AP wrote about the increased role of computer modeling from predicting storms like Hurricane Sandy to aiding predictions like Nate Silver's.

• Reuters analyzed the risks and rewards of a possible Bradley Manning plea deal.

International

• A number of European unions are coordinating a Europe-wide strike and protest against austerity today with the motto #14N.

• The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Cuban authorities to drop charges against a writer for an anti-Castro website that was reporting on detentions of government opponents and criticism of the country's response to Hurricane Sandy.

• The new head of BBC News is asking staff not to tweet about the broadcasters' internal problems.

• The Washington Post explored Russia's new "secret" Internet blacklist.

• The tax authority in Hamburg has revoked the 2010 tax-exempt authority of a main financial supporter of Wikileaks.

• The head of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce said that every third company is looking to add more IT personnel 2013, and that the industry is having trouble finding qualified workers.