Daily Archives: October 9, 2008

Yet again Apple patents something it didn’t invent

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Robin

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But how they got their hands on the Dock patent is a true mystery, considering the amount of prior art there is, reaching back before 1981!

Centralised databases used to track dissidents

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Robin

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Terrorism tracking databases are now being used in the US to track people with political leanings that the police, well, just don’t like. Such as opposing the death penalty, for example. 53 nonviolent dissidents have been found to have been inserted deliberately into the terrorist tracking databases. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

And where is your ‘if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear’ argument now?