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[News] Privacy and Civil Rights Eroded Further as Internet Shifts Balance

  • Subject: [News] Privacy and Civil Rights Eroded Further as Internet Shifts Balance
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:28:26 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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What will the net do to institutions in the next 10 years?

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| The latest Pew Research Center Internet & 
| American Life Project report is out: "The 
| Impact of the Internet on Institutions in 
| the Future" surveys 895 tech experts on 
| the way that technology will change 
| institutions (government, business, 
| nonprofits, schools) in the next ten 
| years. 
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/31/what-will-the-net-do.html

School laptop spy case prompts Wiretap Act rethink

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| When Pennsylvania's Lower Merion school 
| district installed remote control anti-
| theft software on student laptops, it had 
| no intention of dragging Congress into a 
| national debate about wiretapping laws and 
| webcamsâbut that's exactly what it got (in 
| addition to some unwanted FBI attention 
| and a major lawsuit). The key question: 
| should the school's alleged actions be 
| made illegal under US wiretap law?
`----

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/school-laptop-spy-case-prompts-wiretap-act-rethink.ars

Sony Steals Feature From Your PlayStation 3

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| If the messages in EFF's inbox today are 
| anything to go by, a lot of people are 
| upset and angry â with good reason â over 
| Sony's announcement that it is going to 
| disable a feature that allows people to 
| run GNU/Linux and other operating systems 
| on their PlayStation 3 consoles.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/sony-steals-feature-from-your-playstation-3

Philip Pullman on censorship and free speech -- pithy and wonderful

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/29/philip-pullman-on-ce.html

Jerry Ford OKed Warrantless Wiretaps in U.S., Memo Reveals

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| President Gerald Ford secretly authorized 
| the use of warrantless domestic wiretaps 
| for foreign intelligence and 
| counterintelligence purposes soon after 
| coming into office, according to a 
| declassified document.
| The Dec. 19, 1974 White House memorandum, 
| marked Top Secret/Exclusively Eyes Only 
| and signed by Ford, gave then-Attorney 
| General William B. Saxbe and his 
| successors in office authorization "to 
| approve, without prior judicial warrants, 
| specific electronic surveillance within 
| the United States which may be requested 
| by the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
| Investigation."
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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/03/president-ford-okd-secret-eavesdropping-documents-reveal/
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