Yup, they’re going to re-copyright works for people who are long dead. To create money from thin air. Can’t people just think up new stuff?! How to destroy project Gutenberg and all. When is someone going to take the plunge and copyright the Illiad? Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright public domain works.

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Incredibly these were awarded, despite this technology being in use since the 1990s! Apple Wins Two Original iPhone Patents Regarding Rotation Heuristics – Patently Apple.

This is totally stupid, ridiculous and unecessary! US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs ‘unlawful’ • The Register.

ICANN Approves Historic Change to Internet’s Domain Name System Board Votes to Launch New Generic Top-Level Domains Singapore | ICANN’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System. The Board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining. During a [...]

The Christian Democratic Party is the only party in the coalition government who actively wants to spy on you and block your internets. How Christian of them! Omstreden kinderpornofilter van de baan – Emerce.

Kabinet: internetproviders mogen diensten blokkeren – Emerce.

It can be a pain to remember alternative domains when the main domain is moved or illegally seized.Rather than mess around in your hosts file or keep a list of alternative domains and copy/paste this add-on automatically redirects you to the correct alternate site. via MafiaaFire Redirector :: Add-ons for Firefox.

Why would doctors need to have client secrecy privelige? Exactly. Get rid of it. And we need to store camera images for longer.  Who needs privacy anyway?! Kabinet rekt privacywet op | Webwereld.

The guy, John A Rizzo, who signed off on CIA kill orders gives Newsweek a candid interview on the process involved. Inside the Killing Machine – Newsweek.

So claims Bits of Freedom. Of course, it is a huge invasion of your privacy. In some countries they refuse to do it, in NL, they get enthusiastic and force ISPs and Telco’s to retain five years of history.   ‘Bewaarplicht Europese verkeersgegevens levert weinig op’ – Emerce.

Without any judge or court of justice having to ‘interfere’, the NL department of justice is going to just filter out access to sites they don’t like. Because that’s never gone wrong before and no-one has ever misused that power. Not only are they going to do that, but in the process they’ll be spying [...]

Background: In 2009, the EU discussed the issue of a term extension for the ”neighbouring rights” that record companies have to recorded music. These neighbouring rights are now 50 years from the recording of a song. The proposal was to extend them to 95 years. After a lively debate in the European Parliament, it was [...]

The European Union’s new point person on copyright policy won’t take up her post until mid-April, but she’s already stirring up controversy. That’s because Maria Martin-Prat spent years directing “global legal policy” for IFPI, the global recording industry’s London-based trade group, before moving back into government. The appointment raises new questions about the past private-sector [...]

The Dutch foreign minister has stated that if the US comes up with some trumped up charges, he’ll happily deliver Rob Gonggrijp -  founder of XS4ALL – to the US for helping to spread wikileaks information and the gunship videos. That this isn’t a crime in NL is no barrier to throwing him to the [...]

And no one sees any conflict of interest?! While many judges around the country are throwing out file sharing lawsuits on account of questionable or faulty arguments, DC federal judge Beryl Howell just recently allowed three cases filed by copyright holders to proceed. What makes it intriguing is that she used to be a former [...]

And plastered with a message saying the site was shut down for kiddie porn. Are the FBI embarressed? Apologetic? Hell no! They’ve done this before and they’ll do it again. This is why we like governments to have NO say in how the internet runs. Feds Accidentally Shut Down 84,000 Websites over Wrongful Kiddie Porn [...]

3 key provisions of the patriot act have not been extended in the House by a vote of 277 – 148. One of the provisions authorizes the FBI to continue using roving wiretaps on surveillance targets; the second allows the government to access “any tangible items,” such as library records, in the course of surveillance; [...]

Facebook introduced a handful of new ad units that combine your “Likes,” Facebook Places check ins, and your use of certain apps with advertisements for things like Starbucks, Coke, Levi’s jeans and Budweiser. In other words, if you happen to click “Like” on the Starbucks page, check into your local faux Italian coffee bar, or [...]

So far this looks like a great app – faster and easier to navigate than Cydia, it’s a shame that Saurik / Jay Freeman is showing exactly the Apple Monopolist Spirit that the jailbreaking community IMHO is trying to get rid of by forcing this package off the official repositories and by even going so [...]

The Dutch have a system on roads that read number plates automatically for speeding purposes. Now – surprise surprise – they want to store not only the number plate information, but also the pictoral information (including the driver’s face) for a period of four weeks. I’m sure they’ll be trotting out the paedofile capturing arguments [...]

Not only was it prepared by a recent college graduate, agent Andrew Reynolds basically just listened to the MPAA – who have a vested and misinformed agenda. This takedown is a horrible joke gone wrong: no one seems to have any idea of how technology, or indeed just surfing the internet, works, but they have [...]

Federal law enforcement agencies do not limit their surveillance of US residents to phone calls, emails and geo-location information. They are also interested in calling cards, credit cards, rental cars and airline reservations, as well as retail shopping clubs. The document also reveals that DOJ’s preferred method of obtaining this information is via an administrative [...]

Why is this strange? Well, torrent-finder doesn’t host any torrents, or contain a database with the location of torrents – it doesn’t even show any torrents: it shows torrent finding sites in iframes (ie outside of its own site). It’s been taken down unilaterally by ICE in the *cough* land of the *cough* free, the [...]

The reemerging Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) means internet providers will be forced to install interception equipment in their networks to capture details of who contacts whom, when, where and how via services such as Facebook, Skype, webmail, and online games. Under the most likely scenario, Deep Packet Inspection technology will be configured by GCHQ to [...]