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Open Source Surveillance
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| True open source surveillance does exist. It's called sousveillance, and uses
| the idea of distributing the task among many people, often in response to
| centralised surveillance. It's an interesting idea, especially in the context
| of a society like the UK's, where we are constantly spied on by CCTV cameras.
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| Alas, that's not quite what we talking about here. The Programming Resources
| blog pointed me to a different kind of open source surveillance...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1228&blogid=14
Recent:
TriSano Project Annoucement
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| This is an exciting day for the TriSano team & Collaborative Software
| Initiative.
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| From the project annoucement:
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| Collaborative Software Initiative today announces the launch of the TriSano
| application and community. TriSano is an open source, citizen-focused
| infectious disease surveillance system that allows local, state and federal
| entities to collaborate for the good of public health.
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| With TriSano, the Collaborative Software Initiative provides a forum in which
| subject matter experts (i.e., doctors, nurses and epidemiologists) and
| software developers work together to facilitate the cre-ation of
| citizen-centric public health applications. This innovation ensures
| application features meet the specific requirements of each jurisdiction,
| allowing public health employees to achieve the goal of protecting lives.
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http://fuzzypanic.blogspot.com/2008/08/trisano-project-annoucement.html
The new Brazilian Internet surveillance 12
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| The ISP is turned into a surveillance apparatus, and is mandate to inform the
| authorities about any of the crimes the Law deals with, as states article 22.
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| Here I am writing today to tell something that might not be known outside
| Brazil – at least, I haven’t read much in English about it – the attempt to
| turn the Internet into a government surveillance device.
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http://www.nardol.org/2008/7/18/the-new-brazilian-internet-surveillance
Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants
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| The idea that the U.S. can exert meaningful leverage on China's surveillance
| behavior is laughable for reasons wholly independent of what the U.S.
| Government itself does with regard to spying on its own citizens.
| Nonetheless, to watch U.S. Senators like Sam Brownback actually maintain a
| straight face while protesting China's warrantless spying on the email and
| telephone communications of foreigners, and lamenting that private companies
| feel unfairly pressured to cooperate with China's government spying out of
| fear of losing lucrative business opportunities, is so surreal that it's
| actually hard to believe one is seeing it.
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/30/china/index.html
Keeping Your E-Mail Safe from Prying Eyes
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| It is easy to scramble e-mail so that the White House cannot read it. I opted
| for software called Gnu Privacy Guard, an open source implementation of
| public key cryptography. There are versions for Microsoft, Apple and Linux
| systems. An extension for my Firefox browser, FireGPG, lets me encrypt Google
| Mail messages with the push of a button.
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http://business.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13200CUXQV6O
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