NSW and Victoria have ruled out following Tasmania’s lead and legislating for all homes to be connected to the National Broadband Network — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the face of China wielding menacing control over 97% of the world’s rare earth materials, the US House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would bolster R&D of the key elements and help find substitutions for the materials — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During the last week, French Internet users have been starting to receive letters as part of the graduated warning system built in to the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. The email warnings are being sent by Hadopi via France’s ISPs. But even at this early stage at least one ISP is refusing to forward them to their customers prompting complaints from rivals that they are seeking to achieve a competitive advantage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. GRI’s eye scanning systems aren’t more secure than others on the market, but they are faster. Large archway detectors using infrared imaging can pick out 50 people per minute, even as they hustle by at speeds up to 1.5 meters per second (3.3 mph). The first phase of the Leon iris and face scanning project has already begun. It is estimated to cost around $5 million and focuses on law enforcement agencies’ security check points. Over the next three years commercial uses will be rolled out with banks leading the charge. Check out the videos below to see GRI’s wide range of iris scanning stations in action. Whether you’re jealous or intimidated by Leon’s adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some are already in place — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When rioters took to the streets of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, in September, the government swiftly called out the police. When investigators discovered that protesters mobilized via text messaging, the government called on private cellphone firms to turn off text messaging — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has cut funding to a national flying squad of disease detecting specialists that has been operating for nearly 20 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador after President Rafael Correa accused the opposition and security forces of a coup attempt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tasmania’s Cabinet Secretary has congratulated police for refusing to allow a Hobart lawyer to shoot native animals at his local golf club — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US copyright reforms set to pull the rug from pirate-pushing websites leaves the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for dead, according to a copyright lawyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The future of the $2.4 billion Waratah train project has been thrown into doubt, with the state government indicating it is unwilling to cover a potential $357 million funding shortfall prompted by the threatened withdrawal of four banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The European Commission (EC) has told UK telco giant BT that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will not force internet service providers (ISPs) to police their networks for copyright infringement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The folks over at Open Acta Mexico sent over their report on an open information meeting at the Ministry of the Economy in Mexico about ACTA last week. There were two oddities that they called attention to. The first is that there was an MPAA representative at the meeting, who apparently asked whether or not ACTA could be used to block access to damaging
sites like Wikileaks. As the Open Acta Mexico people asked, what does Wikileaks have to do with movies? It seems like an interesting question, though, and I’m assuming that the MPAA is using Wikileaks as an example of a site they deem “dangerous” to get the idea across, so that later when they designate other sites (say… The Pirate Bay….) as dangerous, they can use this to make the — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sweden’s Green Party said on Monday it would not support the center-right Alliance government that lost its parliamentary majority in Sunday’s election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Farmer Andrew Thibault has nothing against Labor’s ambitious National Broadband Network. He’d just prefer some of the $43 billion set aside for the project was spent on more pressing infrastructure needs – such as a decent rail line to get his bumper winter harvest to market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s plan to privatise its $43 billion National Broadband Network is in jeopardy. The problem has arisen after Greens senator Scott Ludlam pledged to fight for the project to remain in public hands — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Several hundred dog lovers and their four-legged friends gathered on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament on Sunday to try to shut down puppy farms — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the biggest donors to the Liberal Democrats has been caught up in a long running Indian police investigation into illegal arms deals, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest scandal about the NSW Government disgusts me. It doesn’t disgust me that someone was using public resources to look (or not look) at porn, but rather because that technology was used in exactly the way most citizens don’t want it used — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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