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March of the dustbin Stasi: Half of councils use anti-terror laws to watch
people putting rubbish out on the wrong day
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| More than half of town halls admit using anti-terror laws to spy on families
| suspected of putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
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| Their tactics include putting secret cameras in tin cans, on lamp posts and
| even in the homes of 'friendly' residents.
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| The local authorities admitted that one of their main aims was to catch
| householders who put their bins out early.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082225/March-dustbin-Stasi-Half-councils-use-anti-terror-laws-watch-people-putting-rubbish-wrong-day.html?ITO=1490
McKinnon suffers further legal setback in extradition fight
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| McKinnon faces seven charges of hacking into US government and military
| systems during 2001 and 2002. The former sys admin has never contested the
| charges, but argues he was motivated by curiosity about supposed US
| government suppression of knowledge about UFO-harvested technologies and
| contact with aliens rather than anything more malign.
|
| He denies causing widespread damage and has expressed incredulity as the
| suggestion of US prosecutors that he was "the biggest military hacker of all
| time".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/mckinnon_legal_setback/
Myspace bans McKinnon as latest deadline looms
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| Gary's music video, Only a Fool, had stormed the Myspace video charts,
| reaching number three the last time we checked, not three days after it was
| posted.
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| His application for a judicial review had sought to prevent his extradition
| on the grounds that it would be cruel to send him, as a sufferer of
| Asperger's Syndrome, to a US jail. The government should secure him the right
| to serve time in a British prison if he was found guilty in a US court, said
| the application.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/07/myspace-law-courts-dump
Recent:
Pools in security lather over shampoo
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| "Pool guests who bring these items must allow them to be opened and
| inspected. Security personnel will smell them to see whether they are safe or
| not," a separate report posted on the city's sport bureau's website said
| (www.shsports.gov.cn).
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http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK18633820080620
Elderly woman prohibiting from photographing empty swimming pool "to prevent
paedophilia"
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| An 82-year-old woman in Southampton, UK was told she couldn't take photos of
| an empty wading pool because she might be a paedophile. Because, you know,
| anything that children touch regularly becomes part of their souls, and if a
| paedophile looks at those objects, it's just like sexually assaulting a
| child.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/25/elderly-woman-prohib.html
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