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 Read more about KPN goes back to stone age of internet, charges mobiles per MB[…]
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 Read more about Centralised databases abused by > 300 police officers per year[…]
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 Read more about Apple patents an old Japanese location interest dating app[…]
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.
iOSTracker.Net displays the recorded location information from your iOS version 4.X Devices Backups on your computer that were done by iTunes.This program is inspired by iPhoneTracker for Mac OS X and uses OpenHeatMap for displaying the locations on the OpenStreetMap infastructure.iOSTracker.Net was coded by Tom Zickel @icebreak.No location information is recorded by the app itself, Read more about iOSTracker.NET – view your iphone movements in windows[…]
Here’s the program to dump your locations. packetlss/android-locdump – GitHub.
This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn’t record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. Why? And what did you do with the data? via petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ 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 Read more about London CCTV: Only 1% of crimes caught are serious. 96% of the camera’s are wasted money. Police don’t understand ‘hard drives’ but can handle VHS.[…]
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 Read more about French gov censors internet without legal recourse[…]
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 Read more about 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. Read more about Twitter prankster found guilty of … something[…]
The foreign minister for NL is refusing to accede to Sarkozy’s request on a three strike ruling, forcing ISPs to kick someone from internet if they are ‘caught’ breaking some rules, such as illegal downloading. The real problem with this is that in this system there is no place for a judge, meaning the copyright Read more about NL vs three strikes[…]
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, Read more about WikiLeaks funding has been blocked. Claims US / AU government blacklisting is the cause.[…]
Brein, the NL anti-download people self-charged with finding and destroying file sharers, is using highly dubious methods with which to do this. FTD: Brein uploadt wél illegale bestanden | Webwereld.
It’s throwing out the month old SWIFT (Financial) data mining agreement and has decided it not only wants to track and keep ALL financial data going in or out of the country, but also any encrypted data needs to be fitted with a master key, so that they can read your facebook passwords, blackberry emails, Read more about US demands right to snoop the world[…]
The freedoms we rapidly lose 🙁 The Netherlands now has it’s own blacklist of websites that it forces on providers to block. The list is confidential, the methods of enforcing the block are confidential, and just like ACTA – they’re trying to put it through without releasing any details, promising transparency ‘later’. The problem is Read more about Netherlands starts it’s own China-esque firewall[…]