"...free software will prove strongly resistant to state interference. Because virtually everyone associated with a free software project is a volunteer, the state cannot easily compel them to participate in tax and regulatory schemes. [...] But even better, free software is likely to prove extremely resistant to state efforts to build privacy-violating features into software systems..."
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Secure Calling Initiative Reaches Second Milestone
"...GNU Telephony Secure Calling is intended to make it both possible, and easy, for individuals, private organizations, and public institutions to deploy secure realtime voice and video communications (VoIP) both in closed and openly accessible networks, and to do so in a manner which helps make passive and warrantless communication intercept of private communication a thing of the past.
Read more »EU Official: IP Is Personal
"IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday..."
Read more »Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
"Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence..."
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A Conversation with Eben Moglen on Second Life
"...Moglen and Levine explore, in depth, the problem of defining digital public space and issues of privacy on the internet, offering many suggestions on how to implement online privacy enhancing technologies and insights as to how we could design the next generation of these technologies in responsible ways...."
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House passes Restore Act with no telecom immunity provision
The House of Representatives has passed the Restore Act, which facilitates broad surveillance of foreign terror groups while restoring the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court's oversight of communications between foreign and domestic surveillance targets.
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Democratic presidential candidates
"Some Democratic presidential candidates are starting to oppose the plan to give immunity to the phone companies that participated in illegal surveillance."
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Illegal Government Surveillance Opens Door to More Privacy Violations
"San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a congressional committee today that the government's illegal dragnet electronic surveillance opens the door to even more privacy violations for ordinary Americans..."
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Another Reason RFID Sucks
"As if massive privacy concerns and identity theft were not enough reasons to worry about the wide spread use of radio frequency identification technology, now comes word that it it may also cause cancer..."
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Eben Moglen - Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy
"...Convincing us that we have willingly given away our data and that those who now possess it have the right to use it, Moglen proposes voluntary data collectives as the answer."
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Microsoft sued by Beijing student for privacy infringement
A Beijing university student is suing Microsoft for infringing upon his privacy, demanding 1,350 yuan (180 U.S. dollars) in compensation and an apology printed in a national newspaper.
Read more »Browser betrayals
Most people don't realise how their browsers betray them. It's not so bad at home, but in a work context it could cost you your job.
Read more »US government snoops used Vista to spy on me
Google 'hostile to privacy': Privacy International - Breaking News - Technology - Breaking News
Should we trust Google with our private data while they take a recalcitrant attitude towards privacy concerns?
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