The European Parliament has approved the controversial data transfer agreement, the bilateral PNR (passenger name register), with the US which requires European airlines to pass on passenger information, including name, contact details, payment data, itinerary, email and phone numbers to the Department of Homeland Security. Under the new agreement, PNR data will be “depersonalised” after Read more about European Parliament forced to send airline passenger data to totalitarian US[…]

A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards. Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to Read more about US Gov will spy on everyone through their cars with mandatory black boxes[…]

Not only is it inherently distasteful to try to censor the internet and force sites to shut down, it’s also very impractical, as BREIN is finding out. After gaining court injunctions for 2 Dutch ISPs to close access to the pirate bay, hundreds of proxy sites went up and BREIN is now going after all Read more about Pirate Party Refuses to Shutdown Pirate Bay Proxy, Faces Lawsuit[…]

Meta data, such as time, location, ip / person from and to, will be freely available without a warrant but the content will only be available with a warrant. They say. I thought Echolon allready did this, but apparently now they’re putting it out into the open. 1984 wasn’t supposed to be a manual, Big Read more about UK going to monitor ALL electronic communication[…]

Because there is nothing wrong with data mining innocent civilians is there? What do you mean, surveillance society? Feds to Keep Info on Americans With No Terror Ties | Military.com.

Gopher was the betamax of the vhs www. It was used by the military and universities and there are still a few gopher servers out there. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/ http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/world http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?ss=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.floodgap.com%3A70%2F7%2Fv2%2Fvishnu&sq=military gopher://gopher.meulie.net/1/textfiles/magazines/ gopher://www.redhill.net.nz/1/us-mil-historic gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/

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Yup, they’re going to re-copyright works for people who are long dead. To create money from thin air. Can’t people just think up new stuff?! How to destroy project Gutenberg and all. When is someone going to take the plunge and copyright the Illiad? Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright public domain works.

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Incredibly these were awarded, despite this technology being in use since the 1990s! Apple Wins Two Original iPhone Patents Regarding Rotation Heuristics – Patently Apple.

This is totally stupid, ridiculous and unecessary! US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs ‘unlawful’ • The Register.

ICANN Approves Historic Change to Internet’s Domain Name System Board Votes to Launch New Generic Top-Level Domains Singapore | ICANN’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System. The Board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining. During a Read more about ICANN approves gTLDs for everyone – with money[…]

The Christian Democratic Party is the only party in the coalition government who actively wants to spy on you and block your internets. How Christian of them! Omstreden kinderpornofilter van de baan – Emerce.

Kabinet: internetproviders mogen diensten blokkeren – Emerce.

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Why would doctors need to have client secrecy privelige? Exactly. Get rid of it. And we need to store camera images for longer.  Who needs privacy anyway?! Kabinet rekt privacywet op | Webwereld.

The guy, John A Rizzo, who signed off on CIA kill orders gives Newsweek a candid interview on the process involved. Inside the Killing Machine – Newsweek.

So claims Bits of Freedom. Of course, it is a huge invasion of your privacy. In some countries they refuse to do it, in NL, they get enthusiastic and force ISPs and Telco’s to retain five years of history.   ‘Bewaarplicht Europese verkeersgegevens levert weinig op’ – Emerce.

The European Union’s new point person on copyright policy won’t take up her post until mid-April, but she’s already stirring up controversy. That’s because Maria Martin-Prat spent years directing “global legal policy” for IFPI, the global recording industry’s London-based trade group, before moving back into government. The appointment raises new questions about the past private-sector Read more about Key music industry lawyer now EU copyright chief[…]

The Dutch foreign minister has stated that if the US comes up with some trumped up charges, he’ll happily deliver Rob Gonggrijp –  founder of XS4ALL – to the US for helping to spread wikileaks information and the gunship videos. That this isn’t a crime in NL is no barrier to throwing him to the Read more about NL leaves Gonggrijp to dry under US ‘justice’ for wikileaks[…]

And no one sees any conflict of interest?! While many judges around the country are throwing out file sharing lawsuits on account of questionable or faulty arguments, DC federal judge Beryl Howell just recently allowed three cases filed by copyright holders to proceed. What makes it intriguing is that she used to be a former Read more about Former RIAA Lobbyist Now Handles File Sharing Cases as a Federal Judge[…]

And plastered with a message saying the site was shut down for kiddie porn. Are the FBI embarressed? Apologetic? Hell no! They’ve done this before and they’ll do it again. This is why we like governments to have NO say in how the internet runs. Feds Accidentally Shut Down 84,000 Websites over Wrongful Kiddie Porn Read more about Anything goes if you justify it with the fight vs kiddieporn – 84000 websites wrongfully shut down by feds[…]

3 key provisions of the patriot act have not been extended in the House by a vote of 277 – 148. One of the provisions authorizes the FBI to continue using roving wiretaps on surveillance targets; the second allows the government to access “any tangible items,” such as library records, in the course of surveillance; Read more about Even republicans are now finding some bits of the patriot act scary[…]