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January 01, 2006 - January 07, 2006 Archive

January 06, 2006

NSA Watch

The ACLU relaunches their informational surveillance network mini-site.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Surveillance

Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists

How to data-mine with a few scripts, and a lot of publicly available data.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

Reality Mining

MIT data-mining experiment shows just how much you can learn from a sprinkling of traffic data.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

Berlind, Neuros Fight Against Analog Hole Plugging

The ZDNet editor and CEO of consumer tech company point out how any new legislation would kill tech innovation and raise prices.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Bad Laws

North Carolina County Commissioners Only Want to Break Voting Law a Bit

The Commissioners council denies they want to throw out the state's e-voting law. They just want the power to ignore it.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: E-Voting

Senator Conyers Defends the Analog Hole Legislation

Prominently buried in comment #95 of his blog entry. Apparently, it's "just the beginning of the debate."
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Bad Laws

Telephone Call Records For Sale

Now everyone with $110 or more has the opportunity to invade privacy.
» link | Posted at 10:58 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Privacy

January 03, 2006

L.A. Times on the Analog Hole Law

"As Sony BMG learned ... unanticipated glitches can inflict more than enough pain to offset any reduction in illegal copying."
» link | Posted at 11:59 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Broadcast Flag

Our Tunes

The Guardian on how UK indy music makers are using the net to bypass the labels and make money for themselves.
» link | Posted at 11:59 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: Copyright

Canadian Copygraft Scandal Grows

Michael Geist continues the investigation into money paid to MP Sam Bulte, Canada's strong copyright advocate in parliament.
» link | Posted at 11:59 AM by Danny O'Brien | Permalink | Other Links: International IP