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Feds push for tracking cell phones
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| Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by
| a band of armed robbers known as the
| "Scarecrow Bandits" that had robbed more
| than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a
| novel method of locating the thieves.
|
| FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone
| companies corresponding to what their
| cellular towers had recorded at the time of
| a dozen different bank robberies in the
| Dallas area. The voluminous records showed
| that two phones had made calls around the
| time of all 12 heists, and that those
| phones belonged to men named Tony Hewitt
| and Corey Duffey. A jury eventually
| convicted the duo of multiple bank robbery
| and weapons charges.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html
The Tor Project - Screw up those spying on you.
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| The Tor Project is free software that helps
| you thwart attempts by third parties like
| you government who are interested in spying
| on your internet sojourn. It works by
| "bouncing your communications around a
| distributed network of relays run by
| volunteers all around the world: it
| prevents somebody watching your Internet
| connection from learning what sites you
| visit, and it prevents the sites you visit
| from learning your physical location."
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/02/tor-project-screw-up-those-spying-on.html
Appeals Court Backs EFF Push for Telecom Lobbying Documents Disclosure
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| Today a federal appeals court rejected a
| government claim of "lobbyist privacy" to
| hide the identities of individuals who
| pressured Congress to grant immunity to
| telecommunications companies that
| participated in the government's
| warrantless electronic surveillance of
| millions of ordinary Americans. As the
| court observed, "There is a clear public
| interest in public knowledge of the methods
| through which well-connected corporate
| lobbyists wield their influence."
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/02/09
SWIFT Parliament debate with MalmstrÃm
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| Commissioner MalmstrÃm defensive
| intervention in the European Parliament.
| She claims the agreement includes âan
| absolute prohibition on data mining â
| searches of the database can only be
| undertaken where it is possible to show a
| reason to believe that the subject of the
| search is engaged in terrorism.â
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/swift-parliament-debate-with-malmstrom/
European Swift bank data ban angers US
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| The European Parliament has blocked a key
| agreement that allows the United States to
| monitor Europeans' bank transactions -
| angering Washington.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8510471.stm
Recent:
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 ÃgalitÃ, fraternità there, does it? That's
| bad enough; but it seems that this bad legislation is leading to even worse
| knock-on consequences.
|
| [...]
|
|
| Now, one aspect not evident from the legalistic mumbo-jumbo above is that
| this spyware may well not support GNU/Linux:
|
| 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 ...
|
| 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
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