On Saturday, October 1, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan will hold the signing ceremony for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at Iikura Guest House, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Agreement was inspired in significant part by Japan’s proposal at the G8 Gleneagles Summit in 2005 to create a new international framework against counterfeit and pirated products, in the context of the heightened awareness of the need for a higher degree of intellectual property protection. Its negotiation has been led by a strong initiative of Japan, the United States and other key partners.
The negotiation has been carried out among Australia, Canada, the European Union and its Member States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States, and reached a general agreement at the negotiation meeting held in Japan in October 2010, followed by the completion of technical and translation work in April 2011.
The signing ceremony will be attended by the representatives of all the participants in the ACTA negotiations, and those that have completed relevant domestic processes will sign the agreement. The agreement is open for signature until May 1, 2013.
On the preceding day, Friday, September 30, an international symposium entitled, “Global Intellectual Property Strategy and the Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake: Eliminating Counterfeit and Pirated Products through ACTA”, will be held in Sendai as a side event of the signing ceremony.

MOFA: Holding of the Signing Ceremony for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Thankfully quite a lot of countries seemed to have dropped out of this draconian piece of shit treaty

This was done on the basis of patent battling. Which goes to show – patents are really great for innovation. Not.

Apple wint in rechtszaak: drie Samsung Galaxy-toestellen vanaf oktober verboden – iPhone – iPhoneclub.nl.

Telex is a new approach to circumventing Internet censorship that is intended to help citizens of repressive governments freely access online services and information. The main idea behind Telex is to place anticensorship technology into the Internet’s core network infrastructure, through cooperation from large ISPs. Telex is markedly different from past anticensorship systems, making it easy to distribute and very difficult to detect and block.

via Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure.

So the Aussies are having alarm bells go off on them when they shouldn’t as well as the Germans.

New airport scanners alarmed by sweaty armpits | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.

So not only have they gone away from unlimited mobile internet AND increased the prices dramatically, KPN has now also fucked customers by severely limiting the upload speeds. My advice: bail out and move to another provider!

KPN knijpt upload mobiel internet | Webwereld.

This should cost them a lot of customers. People will probably change to other providers which do offer them unlimited mobile internet for a reasonable price. This comes as a response to the Dutch parliament not allowing mobile internet providers to cut off certain services, such as whatsapp, viber and skype from mobile internet.

KPN jaagt mobiele dataverstokers op kosten | Webwereld.

Over 900 police officers and staff in the UK were subject to internal disciplinary procedures for breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) over the past three years, the Big Brother Watch revealed.

After putting in a host of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests with forces across the UK, the Big Brother Watched discovered 98 police officers and staff were fired for breaching the Act.

The data also showed 243 received criminal convictions for breaking laws set down by the DPA.

This shows another reason why we should stay away from centralised databases.

via Police database abuse ‘hugely intrusive’ | IT PRO.

Oops. It just gets worse and worse.

Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers – Slashdot.

Which goes to show why the current patent system is stupid. The Japanese have had this system in gadgets for years now – you fill in your interestes in the gadget and when you come close to someone with similar interests, the thing rings. You look around and – hey, there’s someone else ringing!

Unbelievably crass that Apple is now patenting this in the US. Can’t they think up their own products?

United States Patent Application: 0110142016.

After KPN’s Deep Packet Inspection and plans to ban services such as Skype and Whatsapp, there’s a motion to stop ISPs from discriminating on the type of traffic being sent – internet is internet.

Tweede Kamer eist keiharde netneutraliteit | Webwereld.

Of course Windows couldn’t be left out after IOS and Android!

Windows phones send user location to Microsoft • The Register.

They use it do decide where to place traffic cameras.

TomTom verkoopt gebruikersdata door aan politie – Emerce.

Here’s the program to dump your locations.

packetlss/android-locdump – GitHub.

It’s a DNS thing…

Their standard DNS servers link 404s to alternate pages, but you can use other UPC DNS servers to avoid this behaviour.

Hoe kan ik me afmelden voor de navigatieservice in Windows Vista?.

“Inexcusable”: TSA STILL Refusing To Release Naked Scanner Safety Reports.

The number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year.

The number of cameras in Britain has gone up from 21,000 in 1999 to 59,753 in 2010,

The Met said among the 2,512 suspects caught this year, four were suspected murderers, 23 rapists and sex attackers and five wanted gunmen.

“With VHS people held 31 tapes, one for each day of the month, and it did not require specialist officers to get hold of the stuff.

“People are now being confronted by computers and hard drives and told to get those images and it is not as easy.”

via BBC News – ‘Six crimes a day’ solved by CCTV, Met says.

Because a wish for privacy is extremely suspicious and counter to our overlords controlling intentions.

‘Afschermen IP-adres is verdacht gedrag’ | Webwereld.

Section 4 of the Bill Loppsi 2, text tote on Homeland Security, was finally adopted. It will allow the government to filter the Internet using a blacklist issued by the Ministry of Interior, without the intervention of the judiciary. A measure that the government justify the need to better fight against child pornography sites and cybercrime in general.
Why is it that anything brought out to fight ‘child porn’ is generally a serious inhibition on our freedoms? Are we really such idiots that just shouting ‘but the kiddies’ empties our brains every time?!

Google Traduction.

Plus, after the ‘sex by surprise’ (the charge isn’t for rape), she boasted about it on social media!

Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative | Raw Story.

AND if Ireland isn’t crazy enough, England is just as mad – on the same day!

Gareth Compton tweeted this:
“Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan’t tell Amnesty if you don’t. It would be a blessing, really”

And got arrested. For inciting violence.

People, what is wrong with the world?!

Yasmin is going all sorts of nuts all over this – if it was a joke then, maybe we can retweet it more seriously now: she deserves to be stoned to death over the way she’s got her panties in a knot about this. It would be a blessing.

BBC News – Tory councillor arrested over Twitter stoning post.

OK, so you’re frustrated because you go to some airport and it’s closed. So you joke ‘I’m gonna blow the place sky high’ on Twitter. Does anyone expect the next step to be: you get arrested and found guilty?!

It happened to Paul Chambers in Ireland.

So people are massively retweeting his message in protest. This is inanity – what kind of justice system do they have in Ireland?!

Tweeters Risk the Law by Retweeting Same Message That Found a Man Guilty.

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, in one of the US army’s biggest leaks of information.

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Moneybookers moved against WikiLeaks on 13 August, according to the correspondence, less than a week after the Pentagon made public threats of reprisals against the organisation. Moneybookers wrote to Assange: “Following an audit of your account by our security department, we must advise that your account has been closed … to comply with money laundering or other investigations conducted by government authorities.”

via WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting | Media | The Guardian.