In the UK, the chances are you’re being watched. It has more CCTV cameras per person than almost any other nation on earth. And now the government is planning to cast its intrusive eye over online activity, phone calls and text messages, all under the guise of an anti-terror law. And as RT’s Ivor Bennett reports it’s the taxpayer who may well pay in more ways than one.
European ISP’s are massively using ‘Deep Packet Inspection’ (DPI) to monitor network traffic like peer-to-peer and VoIP. These application are then blocked or limited.
The Dutch government is preparing a bill for which makes it possible to analyze the personal data of each passenger is already known and can be analyzed even before it landed at the airport.
A group of more than 30 rightsholders have won their case targeted against Grooveshark in Denmark. A court agreed that both the streaming music service and its users infringe recording label copyrights and granted an injunction forcing an ISP to initiate a block of the service. The anti-piracy group behind the action hopes that other ISPs will now follow suit.
Rumors floating around the internet that the FBI might shutdown the internet on March 8. Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked off from the Internet as early as March 8 if the FBI follows through with plans to yank a series of servers originally installed to combat corruption.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is apparently concerned that Anonymous will try to take down the nation’s electrical grid via a cyberattack, according to a new report.
On Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises passed a bill that severely weakens protection for whistleblowers. The bill requires the whistleblower to confront the company in question first before going to a regulatory agency. Then the agency would notify the entity being accused of wrong-doing before any enforcement action is taken. Also it would legalize retaliation by the company against the whistle blowing employee.
It is unlawful to comment on leaked documents before it’s authenticity is confirmed. bloggers are therefore punishable
Last week, Michael Geist delivered a keynote address on copyright issues at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The talk focused on the activism around SOPA and assessed the global strategies employed by the U.S. and copyright lobby groups of shifting away from WIPO toward closed negotiations such as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
Greens/EFA MEPs demonstrated today against ACTA (The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) in Strasbourg as pressure builds on the European Parliament to take action. The Group has long campaigned on the agreement, alarmed at the lack of transparency surrounding negotiations and will do everything it can in the coming weeks to convince MEPs from other groups to reject ACTA.
