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Britain's surveillance culture undermines democracy
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| BRITAIN IS BEGINNING to sharply resemble Orwell's vision of a Big Brother
| society. While most of us living here have known it for some while, even the
| doddery old duffers in the House of Lords have now noticed.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/865/1050865/britain-surveillance-culture-undermines-democracy
Carnival on Modern Liberty No. 2
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| Tom Griffin (London, OK): Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival on
| Modern Liberty, chronicling the online debate in the run up to the Convention
| on Modern Liberty at the end of the month.
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| It's been a week that has highlighted the state's interest in diverse areas
| of our private lives, especially our online activities. There's good news for
| file-sharers though, as long as they're not dowloading comics...
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/email/tom-griffin/2009/01/31/carnival-on-modern-liberty-no-2
A Tale of Two Consultations
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| I'd like to urge you similarly to comment on Lord Carter’s *interim* report
| on Digital Britain: if it's “interim”, that suggests it will be iterated,
| drawing on feedback. But in contrast to the excellent Power of Information
| Taskforce site, there seems to be no easy way to offer paragraph by paragraph
| comments on Digital Britain. Instead, many people (like myself) have simply
| posted an overall view on the report.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1837&blogid=14
European ID card data is not encrypted
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| None of the data stored on identity cards in the European Union is encrypted,
| according to a study by the European Network and Information Security Agency.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39612304,00.htm
Recent:
UK music Mafia threatens kiddies
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| The campaign tries to convince kids that downloading even one song without
| paying for it will send Daddy's computer into virus hell, and goes on to
| point out that, as children are not legally responsible for their own
| actions, downloading that Bob the Builder live bootleg will almost certainly
| end up with mummy going to prison.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/30/uk-music-mafia-threatens
Related:
How many bricks for 67Bricks?
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| Inigo Surguy, the 67 Bricks Chief Technologist, was appointed Principal UK
| Expert in Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format by the British
| Standards Institute technical committee responsible for British and
| international XML standards.
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| 67Bricks is part of the Microsoft Empower programme.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks
Final deadline looms in OOXML vote
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| Lobbying has intensified ahead of Saturday, 29 March, the deadline for
| Microsoft to convince the world that its Office Open XML specification should
| be accepted as a formal standard.
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| The specification is still short of the two-thirds majority required in a
| vote of national standards bodies on whether to approve Office Open XML
| (OOXML) as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39373617,00.htm
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