January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archive
January 27, 2006
Logging and the Law
Representative Markey proposes a bill to regulate search engine privacy.
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No Results Found--Did You Mean "Sorry?"
MSN's search team gives their reasons for handing over user data to the DOJ. None-too-happy users comment.
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Posted at 12:05 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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United States Versus Google Over Search Data
Danny Sullivan's useful guide to the legal documents on Google's fight with the DOJ.
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Posted at 12:05 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Sausage Factory--Live!
Senator Obama introduces a law that would put the details of pork barrel projects and last minute amendments, online for all to see before a vote.
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Good Laws
Derek Slater to Join EFF
You can look forward to his work in the next few weeks.
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Misc.
Hint: Users Vote Too
Canadian MP Sam Bulte, days after railing against "pro-user zealots" and "EFF members," is kicked out of office.
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Stereophile for Fair Use
The influential hi-fi magazine gapes open-mouthed at the broadcast flag legislation.
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Bad Laws
Your Face is Ours Forever
Lauren Gelman notes that Facebook sneaks itself an irrevocable, perpetual non-exclusive license to all of its student users' content.
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Posted at 12:02 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Video iPod Revolutionaries
Think your video iPod is hard to fill? Blame the DMCA. Declan shows the growing movement to reform it.
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Bad Laws
The Brin Defense
Sergey Brin gives his justification for censoring Google in China.
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Free Speech
State of the Anonymous Web
The New York Times notes the increasing interest in anonymous Net access, and gives Tor top marks.
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Fact-Checking and the Fourth
Glenn Greenwald spots that in June 2002, the Administration declined to accept from Congress the powers that they now claim they have, worrying that it might be unconstitutional.
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Surveillance
Hacking a Bit of Google Privacy
If you worry that Google is tying your searches to your cookie, Don Marti has a Perl script for you (we do similiar proxy filtering on EFF site searches).
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Posted at 12:02 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Evaporating Watermarks
Ed Felten takes a close look at CD DRM--in this case, the watermarking used by SunComm's MediaMax.
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The Several Hundred Banned Words
Wikipedia, banned in China, shows you what is banned in China.
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