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Parliamentary wash-up washes away liberties
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| In the mad rush that is "parliamentary
| wash-up", it is traditional for civil
| liberties to be trampled to demonstrate
| that no party fails the "tough on crime"
| test â and 2010 is no exception.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/12/wash_up_changes/
Chinese human rights lawyer abandons activism to reunite with family
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| An outspoken Chinese human rights lawyer
| whose 13-month disappearance caused
| international concern has said he is
| abandoning activism in the hope of being
| reunited with his exiled family.
|
| Gao Zhisheng, who resurfaced last month at
| a retreat in Shanxi province after being
| seized in February 2009, today said he did
| not want to discuss his disappearance and
| whether he had been held or mistreated by
| the authorities.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/07/china-human-rights-lawyer-abandons-activism
International man of mystery
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| The founder of WikiLeaks lives a secret
| life in the shadow of those who blow the
| whistle, writes Bernard Lagan.
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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/international-man-of-mystery-20100409-ryvf.html
Recent:
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft ad probes sought
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| The Center for Digital Democracy, U.S. PIRG
| and World Privacy Forum complain that
| advertising programs used by the companies are
| "growing privacy threats."
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http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/04/05/daily62.html
Privacy Groups Want Feds to Investigate Targeted Ads
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| A trio of privacy groups want federal
| regulators to take a close look at ad networks
| that track web surfersâ and sell targeted ads.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/privacy-groups-want-feds-to-investigate-targeted-ads/
Brussels criticises UK on privacy
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| The UK government has been accused of failing
| to protect citizens' privacy by the European
| Commission.
|
| It said the government should have done more
| to guarantee online privacy when trials of a
| controversial ad-serving system were carried
| out in 2006.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8337685.stm
Ex-BT tech chief quits Phorm
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| Stratis Scleparis, the former BT Retail chief
| technology officer who joined Phorm after overseeing
| secret trials of its web monitoring and profiling
| system, has quit the firm.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/18/scleparis_phorm_quits/
Phorm shares fall as BT opts out
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| Shares in the online ad firm Phorm have fallen by more than 40% after BT said
| it had no immediate plans to use the service that tracks online behaviour.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8135850.stm
Phorm incinerates $50m in 12 months
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| Phorm was forced into deep cost-cutting after its controversial battle to
| monitor and profile web users burned through an average of more than $4m per
| month last year, its financial results today reveal.
|
| [....]
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| On Tuesday the Commission in London said it had received a response from the
| government to its formal letter in April and was considering its next move.
| The government told privacy campaigners it would not make public the content
| of the response
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/18/phorm_results/
Phorm gets Â15m lifeline
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| It'll use the cash to cover its operating costs while ISPs continue to mull
| its web monitoring and profiling system.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/phorm_fundraising/
Meet Phorm's PR genius
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| Well, Phorm's public image has had a bit of bother from the European
| Commission, so it would sort of make sense.
|
| And this couldn't be the same "PR guru" Patrick Robertson who orchestrated
| the Â200,000 campaign by Tory grandees against the extradition of ex-Chilean
| dictator General Augusto Pinochet, could it?
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/phorm_patrick_robertson/
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