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UK.gov hoovers up data on five-year-olds
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| The government obsession with collecting
| data has now extended to five-year-olds, as
| local Community Health Services get ready
| to arm-twist parents into revealing the
| most intimate details of their own and
| their childâs personal, behavioural and
| eating habits.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/childrens_data/
Hollywood wants to own your outputs (and that's a good idea)
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| Opinion: the cable industry's top man in
| Washington wants to make his case to Ars
| readers over Selectable Output Control
| (SOC)âHollywood's ability to shut down
| specific outputs on your A/V gear to
| prevent piracy. Far from opposing it, geeks
| should love SOC, he says; it's
| technological progress in action, it won't
| break your (current) TV, and it's good for
| consumers.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/hollywood-wants-to-own-your-outputs-and-thats-a-good-idea.ars
IGF attendees: America, surrender the root zone file!
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| Complaints about continuing US government
| control of Internet domain name issues
| surfaced again this week in Egypt at the
| UN-backed Internet Governance Forum. Should
| the US government step even further back
| from the Internet?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/igf-2009-america-surrender-the-root-zone-file.ars
Muzzled by the United Nations
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| This afternoon (4pm local time, 9am EST,
| 9pm Beijing) I will be speaking on a
| plenary panel about social networks. I and
| the other panelists have been told very
| clearly by people in charge that we can't
| mention specific U.N. member countries, and
| we're discouraged from "naming and shaming"
| any other kinds of specific entities as
| well. It's going to be rather difficult to
| discuss emerging issues related to social
| networks without being able to give any
| specific examples of specific countries and
| companies. More broadly, it's rather
| difficult to make progress in global
| Internet governance without being able to
| discuss specific cases in the public
| meetings, or applying any value judgments
| to what any of the actors are doing. But
| that's the United Nations for you. Last
| night I considered whether it even made
| sense for me to remain on the panel. I
| decided to stay on it because I hope that I
| can get a message across - albeit
| generically - about free expression
| concerns on social networks, and how the
| Global Network Initiative is one way to
| help companies navigate these concerns.
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http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/11/muzzled-by-the-united-nations.html
Spain Codifies 'The Right to Broadband'
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| Spanish citizens will have a legal right
| from 2011 to be able to buy broadband
| internet of at least one megabyte per
| second at a regulated price wherever they
| live, the country's industry minister said
| on Tuesday.
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| The telecoms operator holding the so-called
| "universal service" contract would have to
| guarantee it could offer "reasonably"
| priced broadband throughout Spain, said
| Miguel Sebastian in a statement sent to
| media.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356014,00.asp
Recent:
New Zealand Herald drops hard news
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| According to Cactus Kate, APN instructed
| editors to spike any stories that could
| trigger legal action or are otherwise
| risky.
|
| The New Zealand Herald has never been
| considered the nationâs hardest newspaper,
| but Cactus Kateâs APN Chicken Out says the
| company is no longer participating in âreal
| mediaâ.
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http://billbennett.co.nz/2009/11/16/zealand-newspaper-chickens-news/
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