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Newegg Ships Fake Intel Chips; Supplier Threatens Journalists For Reporting It
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| You know what's even better than weird
| news? Weird news well-flavored with legal
| stupididy, that's what. Our saga today
| starts with a shipping oddity; specifically
| the fact that Overclockers.com forum member
| Dreadrok ordered a Core i7 920 from Newegg
| and received a completely fake processor.
| It's a good fake, tooâif it weren't for a
| few misspellings on the outside of the box,
| we'd believe it was completely legit,
| particularly if we didn't take the time to
| scour the box looking for the telltales.
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http://hothardware.com/News/Newegg-Ships-Fake-Intel-Chips-Supplier-Threatens-Journalists-For-Reporting-It/
Vision Media's Attempt To Silence Critic May Be Exposing More Questionable Activities
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| Of course, none of this would be getting as
| much attention if the company wasn't trying
| to silence 800Notes and its users from
| saying why they felt the pitches were
| questionable.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100304/1742408426.shtml
Police get Webcam pictures in school spy case
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| Two IT employees at Pennsylvania's Lower
| Merion School District have been put on
| administrative leave, and pictures taken
| from Webcams on school-issued computers
| have been turned over to the local police
| department, according to the attorney of
| one of the employees now on leave.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10465117-238.html
Pa. schools' tech specialists on paid leave amid spying probe
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| Two information-technology workers at a
| suburban Philadelphia school district that
| secretly activated webcams on students'
| school-issued laptops are on paid leave
| amid an FBI wiretap investigation.
|
| Lower Merion School District officials
| insist the move is not meant to suggest
| wrongdoing by the veteran employees. They
| have said the webcams were only activated
| to find missing laptops, and not for any
| rogue purpose.
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/latest-headlines/ci_14520032?nclick_check=1
CCTV in toilets - again
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| In 2008, Toileta school in Plymouth was
| forced to remove CCTV from toilets after
| very significant protests from pupils and
| parents. In November last year, CCTV
| footage of children changing into sports
| kits in school changing rooms was seized by
| the police in Salford. Plainly, it was
| wrong to record such footage and you would
| think that such drastic action in these and
| other similar cases would be heeded by
| others. But, ironically given their
| educational mission, it seems that some
| schools just won't learn.
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http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/2010/03/cctv-in-toilets-again.html
Solihull school installs CCTV in children's toilets
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| I wasn't shocked that it happened, because
| I have read so many stories recently about
| people in low level positions of authority
| who assume they have a 'right to spy' that
| trumps any else's right to privacy. What
| shocked me was the headline itself. It
| didn't say "Headmaster arrested for
| installing CCTV in children's toilets", or
| "Headmaster resigns after being caught
| installing CCTV in children's toilets." It
| didn't even say "Headmaster apologises
| after installing CCTV in children's
| toilets." Instead the headline was a plain
| and unadorned "Chelmsley Wood school puts
| CCTV in pupil toilets."
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/9/solihull-school-installs-cctv-childrens-toilets/
100 extra CCTV cameras mean more parking fines in Westminster
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| The number of motorists fined for parking
| offences in central London will rise from
| today as 100 CCTV âspyâ cameras are
| switched on.
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23812887-100-extra-cctv-cameras-mean-more-parking-fines-in-westminster.do
Facebook's Beginnings Likely Shaped Its Privacy Policies
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| In Nicholas Carlson's piece, he tells the
| "full story" of Facebook's beginning. He
| starts with the initial conversations
| Harvard sophomore Zuckerberg had with the
| trio of seniors who wanted him to code for
| a new Web site they wanted to start, called
| HarvardConnection. Then, complete with
| instant messages and e-mails that have not
| been made public until now, he outlines how
| Zuckerberg appears to have decided to
| create his own site -- thefacebook.com --
| but not to tell the HarvardConnection
| founders he wasn't working on their project
| until his was almost finished.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/facebooks-beginnings-likely-shaped-its-privacy-policies/?cs=39859
MEPs told to vote or else as US data row deepens
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| The European Parliament has been asked to
| vote to approve or reject the Passenger
| Name Record agreement with the US.
|
| The Civil Liberties Committee is likely to
| postpone its vote until a new template has
| been created, to detail what information is
| exchanged. The Committee also wants to lay
| down how the information should be stored
| and used.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/passenger_record_vote/
Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention
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| Circumvention tools help Turks who want to
| see YouTube get around a government block.
| But they donât help Americans, Chinese or
| Burmese see Irrawaddy if the site has been
| taken down by DDoS or hacking attacks.
| Publishers of controversial online content
| have begun to realize that theyâre not just
| going to face censorship by national
| filtering systems â theyâre going to face a
| variety of technical and legal attacks that
| seek to make their servers inaccessible.
|
| Thereâs quite a bit publishers can do to
| increase the resilience of their sites to
| DDoS attack and to make their sites more
| difficult to filter. To avoid blockage in
| Turkey, YouTube could increase the number
| of IP addresses that lead to the webserver
| and use a technique called âfast-flux DNSâ
| to give the Turkish government more IP
| addresses to block. They could maintain a
| mailing list to alert users to unblocked IP
| addresses where they could access YouTube,
| or create a custom application which
| disseminates unblocked IPs to YouTube users
| who download the ap. These are all
| techniques employed by content sites that
| are frequently blocked in closed societies.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011015.html
Brandeis in Italy: The Privacy Issues in the Google Video Case
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| I don't think this is really a case about
| ISP liability at all. It is a case about
| the use of a person's image, without their
| consent, that generates commercial value
| for someone else. That is the essence of
| the Italian law at issue in this case. It
| is also how the right of privacy was first
| established in the United States.
|
| The video at the center of this case was
| very popular in Italy and drove lots of
| users to the Google Video site. This
| boosted advertising and support for other
| Google services. As a consequence, Google
| actually had an incentive not to respond to
| the many requests it received before it
| actually took down the video.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-rotenberg/brandeis-in-italy-the-pri_b_481115.html
Columnist Claims Italy's Google Verdict Makes Sense
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| But the really scary thing is that Rall
| seems to think that basically destroying
| the freedom to communicate and to express
| yourself online makes sense, just because
| the tool might possibly be used to spread a
| false statement. Does he not recognize the
| unintended consequences of this? Does he
| not realize that his "suggestion" for
| fixing the internet is effectively how much
| of China's internet censorship program
| works? Does he not think there might be
| more effective ways of dealing with such
| situations? For example, if Rall were to
| falsely accuse you of being a drug-addicted
| child pornographer, and it's clearly bogus,
| then you have an opportunity to fight back,
| and point out that Rall is wrong, destroy
| his reputation, and make sure he never gets
| another job again. Why not let free speech
| combat free speech?
|
| Instead, Rall seems terrified of free
| speech, and would prefer that it only come
| from the "professionals" like himself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100305/1139318439.shtml
Schneier: Fight for privacy or kiss it good-bye
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| If the public wants online privacy it had
| better fight now for laws to protect it
| because businesses won't and individuals
| don't have the clout, security expert Bruce
| Schneier told RSA Conference.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030910-schneier-privacy.html?page=1
Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad
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| Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial
| company E-Trade, insisting that a
| boyfriend-stealing, âmilkaholicâ baby in
| its latest commercial â who happens to be
| named Lindsay â was modeled after her. And
| she wants $100 million for her pain and
| suffering, The Post has learned.
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http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/09/lindsay-lohan-wants-100m-over-e-trade-ad/
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