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Has HADOPI Driven the French Insane?
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| I refer, of course, to the infamous HADOPI law, which aims to deprive French
| citizens of their Internet connection purely on the say-so of French media
| companies. Doesn't sound like much égalité, fraternité there, does it? That's
| bad enough; but it seems that this bad legislation is leading to even worse
| knock-on consequences.
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| [...]
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| Now, one aspect not evident from the legalistic mumbo-jumbo above is that
| this spyware may well not support GNU/Linux:
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| The Assembly also postponed a handful of amendments that sought to exempt
| the subscriber if the system is not interoperable with software security,
| with the first assumption that it uses a system that is too old. An "old"
| Windows with expensive software installed on, for example. Or a free
| software ...
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| An amendment sought to nip in the bud the potential for discrimination
| technological and financial background of interoperability ( "the means
| of secure, freely available to consumers, are interoperable). But again,
| it was rejected by the rapporteur implacably Franck Riester and the
| Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/has-hadopi-driven-french-insane.html
Hadopi Law: Spyware Provisions and the TF1 Sacking
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| How can this not amount to a wholesale surveillance of online activity? Who
| will have access to the data collected and transmitted by these ’security
| systems’ (sic), and how will that access be managed? Will the security
| systems be transparent (free software/open source), or proprietary black-box
| money-makers, prone later to surrender to a veritable orgy of exploits? If
| proprietary, how will it be interoperable with free operating systems such as
| GNU Linux?
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http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/hadopi-spyware-provisions-and-the-tf1-sacking/
Great selling point for GNU/Linux.
Related:
GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your online privacy, anonymity and
security
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| The second piece of shocking information was a report in the New York Times
| of a leaked document that the USA and the the European Union were proposing
| to exchange information with each other on their citizens. Allowing this to
| happen would be like putting Count Dracula in charge of a blood bank. They
| will of course plead effusively (a) good intentions and (b) make extravagant
| claims for built-in safeguards. Well, the latter is about as useful as a
| chocolate teapot. Heard it all before—along with fairy tales from my mother
| and father about the tooth fairy and Santa. Inevitably, they also plead cruel
| necessity but those words have been on the lips of all tyrants since time
| immemorial. When they start forming on the lips of “democratic” governments
| and politicians then it really is time to consider what must be done.
|
| As the average politician’s knowledge of science and information technology
| is smaller than Planck’s Constant we should not be surprised at such poor
| understanding and lax control.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gnu_linux_free_software_tools_preserve_your_online_privacy_anonymity_and_security
http://tinyurl.com/5ouz3z
Mozilla considers tracking Firefox browsing habits
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| The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the Firefox web browser, is
| considering tracking its users’ browsing habits on a voluntary basis.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/20/mozilla-considers-tracking-firefox-browsing-habits/1
5 Ways Your Gadgets Will Betray Your Privacy
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| I’ve spent a considerable amount of my personal and professional time mocking
| conspiracy theorists, but it is true that as we open our homes and our
| wallets to electronic devices, we are also opening up our lives to
| surveillance. So if you plan on doing something risky, read the list below.
| Then then check out your ISP’s terms of service, wrap your phone in tinfoil,
| and call a cab (leave your wallet at home).
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http://gigaom.com/2008/05/19/5-ways-your-gadgets-will-betray-you/
UK gov't plans huge database of e-mails and phone calls
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| The UK government could track all emails and phone calls made in the UK, if
| its plans for a vast centralized database go ahead.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1523259541&rid=-50
British Balk at Government Getting a Discussion Database
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| The UK is up in arms this week — complete with torches and pitchforks — over
| the latest plan by the increasingly unpopular government's plan to build a
| database to hold copies of every email sent in the UK along with recordings
| of every phone call in the country.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/british-balk-government-getting-discussion-database
The Open Source Lifestyle -- Privacy versus Respect
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| And the flip side is that as people, as parents, as mentors, and as leaders,
| we need to teach about respect on the Internet. Privacy based on respect is
| much more likely to be truly private.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-lifestyle-privacy-versus-respect
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
FBI ducks questions about its remotely installed spyware
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| There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we
| reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted
| in a suspect's computer remotely.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747666-7.html
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
New software can identify you from your online habits
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| That is the spectre raised by new research conducted by Microsoft.
| The computing giant is developing software that could accurately
| guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location,
| by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. But
| experts say the idea is a clear threat to privacy - and may be
| illegal in some places.
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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426046.400&feedId=being-human_rss20
http://tinyurl.com/2lrazk
Microsoft ponders offline profiling of Web users
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| Microsoft Corp. is developing a method of using personal data such as
| credit-card information to target Internet users with advertising once they
| connect to the Web, according to a patent application filed by the company.
|
| In an application disclosed earlier this month, a Microsoft team including
| Chairman Bill Gates presents a method of collecting information about
| users' "cell phones, geolocation systems, credit-card information" and other
| data sources to select and display "targeted advertising."
|
| [...]
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| Gates is listed as an inventor on the patent application, alongside members
| of various Microsoft research units.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-ponders-offline-profiling-web/story.aspx?guid=%7BF0D7FACF%2D0072%2D43C6%2DB341%2DB934D7E84635%7D&siteid=yhoof
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