| "The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it." --John Gilmore |
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| Secret Super-copyright Treaty Memo Leaked |
2008/6/6 |
| It's becoming clearer and clearer that the entertainment industry is an existential threat to the idea of free speech, open tools, and an open communications network. |
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| Data Retention Effectively Changes the Behavior of Citizens in Germany |
2008/6/4 |
| The fundamental problem with surveillance is that it changes people. People under surveillance behave differently than people who are not monitored - differently than free people. |
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| Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal |
2008/3/5 |
| Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal. The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site. |
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| Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007 |
2007/12/28 |
| Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published. |
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| Definition Changing for People's Privacy |
2007/11/11 |
| As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. |
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| Malaysia cracks down on bloggers |
2007/7/25 |
| The Malaysian government has warned it could use tough anti-terrorism laws against bloggers who insult Islam or the country's king. But officials insist the law is not intended to strangle internet freedom. |
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| Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use |
2007/7/7 |
| Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. |
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| Appeals Court Rules No Privacy Interest in IP Addresses, Email To/From Fields |
2007/7/6 |
| Appeals court finds that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy with reguard to visited IP addresses. |
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| Three Arrested in Japan for File-Sharing Shōnen Manga |
2007/5/18 |
| The software (Winny) promised anonymity for its users, but Kyoto's High-Tech Crime Task Force found flaws in its integrated forum feature. |
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| Privacy Equals Freedom - Support the Freenet Project |
2007/5/15 |
| Freedom. It’s nice, right? It ought to be… the freedom we enjoy was paid for with the blood of our forefathers, and is maintained by the blood of our siblings. And no freedom is more precious than that of speech. From it all other freedom flows. |
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| OnShare Locks Down File Sharing |
2007/3/8 |
| Technology firm Z Group has introduced a file sharing service which it claims offers security levels 16 times greater than internet banking. |
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| Private Encrypted P2P Solutions Gaining Popularity Amongst File Exchangers |
2007/5/2 |
| Now, though, the cat and mouse game appears to be headed for a dead halt as consumers have discovered a new breed of peer-to-peer systems that encrypt all exchanges. |
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| Caught in the Network |
2007/2/9 |
| A professor's use of software to protect his privacy as he surfs the Web does not go unnoticed. Paul Cesarini, an assistant professor of visual communication and technology education at Bowling Green State University, describes his experience. |
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| Ron Deibert on the History and Future of Psiphon |
2007/1/31 |
| The result is an “emerging arms race in cyberspace.” Deibert points to recent developments in Kygryzstan and Belarus. The internet is generally relatively uncensored in these countries, but experienced heavy filtering in critical periods around elections and the public demonstrations that followed them. |
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| Psiphon, Part I: Why You Need This Open Source, Personal Secure Proxy Server |
2007/1/21 |
| Psiphon is a new way to help people cut through firewalls. You should be using it if you surf wirelessly away from home, or in a location where firewalls stop you from going to places you would like to go on the Web. |
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