The much disputed French three-strike anti-piracy bill dubbed HADOPI made a comeback and is again close to being signed into law. A revised version of the bill has just passed the vote in the French Parliament's preeminent body, the National Assembly.Back in June 2008, the French government introduced a bill cal... |
16 September 2009
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkley, has sent a letter to Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, arguing that Google Books should provide at least the same level or privacy for readers as libraries and bookstor... |
27 July 2009
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The highly controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), proposed as far back as 2001 by former president George W. Bush, has allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to collect extremely large amounts of data from American citizens, and centralize them into a massive database, which is constantly expanded. A... |
17 April 2009
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The British media is reporting that UK's Home Office has adopted a plan that will allow police forces and secret service agents to hack into and monitor traffic from private and business computers without the need of warrants. The plan is bound to attract a lot of anger from civil liberties and human rights prot... |
6 January 2009
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