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27 Aug 09
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | 1,000 cameras 'solve one crime'
"CCTV leads to massive expense and minimum effectiveness. It creates a huge intrusion on privacy, yet provides little or no improvement in security."
25 Aug 09
Official tells Google to erase Swiss street views - Security- msnbc.com
Hanspeter Thuer, federal data protection commissioner, said Google's pictures were violating Switzerland's strict privacy laws by failing to obscure people's identities.
05 Jul 09
Newsvine - US wants privacy in new cyber security system
The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
24 Jun 09
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation: Scientific American
How much legal weight should actions in the virtual world carry back in the real one? For most people, the answer might be "none," but as online communities conduct actual financial transactions and draw in more participants, some legal experts think that it may be time to extend brick-and-mortar jurisprudence into the virtual realm.
12 Jun 09
What In The World Is Net Neutrality? | SEO Articles by Beanstalk
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there is existing legislation to protect consumers and this legislation works
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capitalism and consumer choice in a non-monopolistic area is self-regulating
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The Conservative Argument AGAINST Net Neutrality | TechRepublican.com
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could deter needed infrastructure investment
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ultimately end in government management and ownership of the Internet
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11 Jun 09
Happy Birthday Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web
Known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee's work to develop html, http, and the url system changed the way the world used computers. Today Berners-Lee continues his work with the Internet, now focused on developing the Semantic Web.
08 Jun 09
Is Your Cell Phone Spying On You? | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com
Don't talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone.
30 May 09
Rape-camps lurk in the history of your gadgets - Boing Boing
Congolese militias use rape to enforce discipline among a slave workforce that mines columbite-tantalite ore, a common raw material for many devices.
"We create those atrocities through our consumption," says Ensler.
28 May 09
Lyons: Why Google Faces Antitrust Scrutiny | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com
22 May 09
Newmark: Keep the Internet neutral, fair and free - CNN.com
(CNN) -- Most Americans believe that if you play fair and work hard, you'll get ahead. But this notion is threatened by legislation passed Thursday night by the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow Internet service providers to play favorites among different Web sites.
21 May 09
Next up for France: police keyloggers and Web censorship - Ars Technica
Having just passed its super-controversial Création et Internet "graduated response" law, you might think the French government would take at least a brief break from riling up the "internautes." Instead, the government is prepping a new crime bill that will, among other things, mandate Internet censorship at the ISP level, legalize government spyware, and create a massive meta-database of citizen information called "Pericles."
07 May 09
Reliable Source - Fair Use? Tell That to the Judge
Last year, law professor Joel Reidenberg told his students to find his personal data on the Internet to teach them privacy laws. This year, the professor assigned the same project about Scalia after the justice said he wasn't that worried about digital privacy.
Wired Campus: Supreme Discomfort Caused by Law Professor's Internet Privacy Project - Chronicle.com
"Joel R. Reidenberg, a Fordham University School of Law professor, has raised the hackles of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court by collecting a lot of the jurist’s personal information via the Internet.
Mr. Reidenberg teaches a course on privacy law. Justice Scalia made comments earlier this year that sounded skeptical about legal privacy protection for all online information. So Mr. Reidenberg asked his class to compile a dossier on Justice Scalia."
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