As the shock passes into reflection of the Utøya massacre — could anything have been different? — and the grief for and honoring of…
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Civil Liberties
This Is Data Retention. Would You Give It To Any Future Government?
A new visualization of cellphone location data surfaced yesterday on Engadget. While it was hailed as a cool visualization of location, it is something…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love LulzSec
Zacqary Adam Green. I don’t like having my personal data taken by the “Bad Guys”, no more than anyone. When the infamous Sony Playstation…
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The Door To Citizens' Freedom Swings Both Ways
Governments all over the world are becoming increasingly two-faced and schizophrenic when it comes to dealing with the net. As ecstatic as governments can…
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Weed As Surprise Driver For Mass Cryptoproficiency
Ever since the e-mail encryption PGP was created, civil liberties activists have wondered how to get people in general to care about cryptography and…
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Stallman's "The Right To Read" Becomes Dreaded, Insane Reality
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Richard Stallman published a dystopic short story called “The Right To Read“. It is set in an extrapolated future of…
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Czech Constitutional Court Kills Data Retention
In a verdict today, the Czech Constitutional Court killed the Czech implementation of the detested Data Retention Directive. Ubiquitous surveillance of every human being…
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Data Retention Postponed As Expected
As expected and hoped, data retention was postponed through a constitutional safeguard in Swedish Parliament today. This means that one year must pass until…
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LIVE: Data Retention Vote In Sweden
16:10. The vote on the constitutional safeguard is complete. 62 votes for postponement, 281 against, 6 absent. 281 votes is not five-sixths of Parliament….
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As Data Retention Looms In Sweden, It Is Already Useless
Today at 1600 hours, the Swedish Parliament will vote on Data Retention. The vote is expected and hoped to result in a one-year postponement…
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