The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive corporations
Senior figures at the Department of Transport sent a secret email to uncover information on the Paddington rail crash survivor Pam Warren in what has been seen as an attempt to discredit her
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has hit back at the Federal Government’s counter-terrorism package, despite claims agencies won’t allow agencies to read e-mails or SMS at whim
The Securities and Exchange Commission have said that Microsoft violated federal securities law by using improper bookkeeping to understate its earnings by as much as $900 million over a four-year period
The Source, an Australian government web site, has been spamming people multiple times, despite the site’s privacy policy stating it won’t use e-mail addresses without the owner’s consent
The European Parliament has voted to ban spam by adopting the opt-in
system for unsolicited commercial e-mail, finally freeing the way for the entry into force of a European Parliament and Council directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
Former Labor MP Andrew Theophanous was a self-styled champion of multiculturalism and immigration. This week, the one-time ALP high-flyer was found guilty of taking bribes, the first federal MP ever to be convicted of corruption
National Party Senate leader Ron Boswell has said, a legislated right of country people to the latest technology must be a part of any further sale of Telstra
Lord Bingham, the senior UK law lord, called for abolition of the laws against cannabis
New Jersey will begin examining the possibility of placing limits on roller coaster G-forces. Pointing out that the G-forces on coasters are considerably greater than even those experienced by astronauts and race car drivers, legislators on both the state and national levels want to start reining in coaster G-forces which have been blamed for a number of injuries and deaths over the past few years — via Slashdot
Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock has been taken to task over Australia’s refugee policy by the assembled crowd at the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association function in London
An attempt to have former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrested in Britain for war crimes has failed. Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell applied at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court for a warrant for the arrest of Dr Kissinger under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957. The charges alleged that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner commissioned, aided and abetted and procured war crimes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
The retarded monkey boy suffered a double-edged loss in the Senate yesterday over drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Lawmakers for the first time delivered a stinging rebuke to a core item in his domestic agenda, and his defeat was engineered by three of his potential Democratic challengers in 2004
British MPs have branded Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a war criminal
in the House of Commons. Many have voiced their anger over his troops’ invasions of Palestinian territory. The comments come as reports emerging from Jenin suggest many civilians may have been killed by Israeli troops in the refugee camp
European environment ministers are expressing outrage at the US rejection of the Kyoto Protocol. They have been criticising the retarded monkey boy‘s stance on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, at G8 talks in Canada. Some accused the US of political manoeuvres to preserve the energy-burning American lifestyle
Almost a year ago, Richard Neville wrote a provocative analysis of the dark side
of Uncle Sam — a nation, he argued, hell-bent on furthering its own interests at any cost. Now, in the wake of 11 September, America has cast itself as a global crusader against terror, above the law, above criticism. But is it really on the side of the angels in a new kind
of war, Neville asks — and could it have responded to the crisis in a way more in keeping with its own high ideals?
Gateway is taking to the airwaves in a bid to rally consumers against a copyright-protection bill that would prevent computers from playing pirated movies and music
If you go down to the woods today, you are likely to come across a cleared path, a neatly manicured glen and a strategically placed water feature. Everything will be signposted and there will be few, if any, surprises. The British public’s fear of dark, imposing forests in which ghouls and goblins lurk has led the Forestry Commission to order a series of woodland makeovers
Florida, a state run by another corrupt shrub, has implemented restrictions on gay parenting. This doesn’t just mean that if you’re gay you can’t adopt, it also means that children in happy, stable homes can be legally removed by the state because of their parents sexuality. Welcome to the land of the free
The New Zealand government now wants network operators and ISPs to ensure they can spy on customers using their services on behalf of police and secret service groups
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