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Civil Liberties Groups Ask EU to Repeal Data Retention Directive (1 Dec 2009)
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| Civil liberties groups European Digital
| Rights (EDRi) and the German Working Group
| on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) are calling
| on the European Union to repeal the 2006
| directive on the data retention of
| electronic communications.[1] In the event
| that the directive is not repealed, they
| demand that it is amended to introduce an
| opt-out right allowing Member States to
| decide whether or not to require the
| retention of communications data.
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http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/343/79/lang,en/
More than Digital
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| Digital content remains dependent on the
| physical world too, since data has to be
| stored somewhere, and some machine built of
| atoms is needed have to process it. The
| âdigital worldâ is really a hybrid world,
| one where analogue and digital co-exist,
| where the physical and the virtual come
| together in a mutually dependent
| relationship.
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http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/11/30/more-than-digital/
The mystery of Tony Blair's finances
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| The former prime minister Tony Blair has
| received millions of pounds through an
| unusual mixture of commercial, charitable
| and religious income streams. Since he
| stepped down from office in 2007, his
| financial affairs have been described by
| observers as "Byzantine" and "opaque". The
| Guardian is now launching an online
| competition offering a prize to the person
| who can shine the brightest light on those
| financial structures.
|
| Blair has a commercial consultancy, called
| Tony Blair Associates, plus jobs advising a
| US bank and a Swiss insurer. He has a
| multimillion pound book deal. He also has a
| charity, the Tony Blair Africa Governance
| Initiative, and another called the Tony
| Blair Faith Foundation. But much of the
| income, which includes charitable donations
| from other sources, has been funnelled
| through a structure called Windrush
| Ventures No 3 Limited Partnership. Our
| contest asks: what is Windrush?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/01/mystery-tony-blair-finances
King to probe release of 9/11 pager messages
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| One privacy lesson in the WikiLeaks
| disclosure is that high-tech communications
| gadgets create information that can surface
| years later, Spafford said. Nothing is
| private, he emphasized.
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http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/king-to-probe-release-of-9-11-pager-messages-1.1625381
Making Government IT Better - and Open
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| As I've noted many a time, the UK
| government has been one of the most
| backward when it comes to adopting open source
| solutions.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2670&blogid=14
Recent:
Progress on Open Database Alliance
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| During this autumn I've had the pleasure of
| working closely with Georg Greve, Founder and
| former President of the Free Software
| Foundation Europe. Seeing that he had just
| left his previous post, we realized that his
| experience would be invaluable to do some of
| the heavy lifting involved in setting up
| processes for this fresh association. And so
| it has been!
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http://openlife.cc/blogs/2009/november/progress-open-database-alliance
Unlocking the Cloud Means Open Data
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| Opponents of cloud computing cite data loss
| and vendor lock-in as a primary dangers of
| relying on such services. They're valid
| points, but since cloud computing isn't going
| away anytime soon, it's time to start finding
| solutions instead of simply sounding alarm
| bells.
|
| Today's guest editor, Rafael Laguna, CEO of
| Open-Xchange, shares his thoughts about what
| it would take to make cloud services more
| reliable and trustworthy.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/unlocking-the-cloud-means-open-data
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