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FBI calls for two year retention for ISP data
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| FBI director Robert Mueller is still keen
| to get US internet service providers to
| keep their customers' web logs for up to
| two years.
|
| What is not clear is whether the director
| is talking about which websites are visited
| or the specific URL - which would require
| deep packet inspection and probably break
| US wiretap laws.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/fbi_wiretap/
Kennard goes Mad Rhino on SWIFT
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| He indicates the US would negotiate a
| bilateral agreement instead. Of course it
| seems legally impossible for member states
| to enter bilateral agreements and member
| states would be reluctant to follow that
| path. Hillary Clinton reportedly phoned
| Catherine Ashton(?!) and Parliament
| President Jerzy Buzek. I am sure Buzek and
| the other members will teach them manners.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/kennard-goes-mad-rhino-on-swift/
Why SWIFT data proliferation is counter-terrorism gone worse
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| It is not about âprivacyâ of citizens as
| the news agencies report, that is really
| the minor concern. A majority of European
| policy makers fully agrees in principles to
| use the data for anti-terrorism requests
| from law enforcement agencies (which
| requires careful administration and
| strongest safeguards).
|
| In a conventional narrative our personal
| âprivacyâ interests would be weighted
| against public âsecurityâ interests of our
| government which seeks to counter terrorism
| and other serious crimes. Some politicians
| and media observers think along these lines
| which are on a lower level. Here the
| general trust in financial transaction
| services, our European financial
| transaction markets are at stake.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/why-swift-data-proliferation-is-anti-terrorism-gone-worse/
Comcast CEO Argues Rules Will Protect Customers In Merger, While Comcast Lawyers Argue Rules Are Unconstitutional
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| All that said, I have to say that I'm not
| particularly concerned about Comcast and
| NBC merging. I'm all for it. If two
| companies that poorly run are getting
| together, it's pretty much guaranteed to be
| a disaster. We've seen this game before,
| and it was called AOL-Time Warner. While
| it's difficult to think that anyone could
| screw up that badly again, if anyone can,
| it's the folks at NBC Universal.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100205/1330378067.shtml
Recent:
Schneier sticks it to surveillance
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| Security guru Bruce Schneier has challenged the view that privacy and
| security are at loggerheads, suggesting the real debate is between liberty
| and control.
|
| [...]
|
| "Identity cards are just a temporary solution until biometrics take over. In
| five years or so these checks will happen in the background using RFID chips,
| you won't even know you are being checked."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/29/schneier_rsa_privacy/
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