The US Marine Corps launched an investigation into possible war crimes after video footage taken inside a mosque in Fallujah showed a Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi insurgent who had been taken prisoner
In a response to EFF’s motion to unseal, the US government claims that Indymedia hard drives were seized as part of an international criminal terrorism investigation
, and thus the US District Court’s gag order should be upheld
A careless mistake by someone dropping a case of CDs allegedly containing forged documents used to create fake identities has led police to crack one of the largest and most sophisticated identity fraud rings in Australia
Software patents could be used for anti-competitive practices, as large IT players form a cartel to pool or cross license patents in order to keep out smaller players
Some interesting accounts of people in the US confronted with the reality that they live in a police state.
The November 2004 issue of Romance Writers Report has an article about an author getting an unexpected called from the feds because she was researching Cambodia. It appears that her online purchases of books were tracked.
A LiveJournal user got a visit from the secret service after a political post was incorrectly reported by some pissant little nobody as constituting a threat to King George II’s health.
Kids at Richland Centre High School got a chance to meet King George II during an official visit. However, any student who turned up wearing a pro-Kerry pin, hat or shirt was threatened with expulsion.
Members of the Bits of Freedom group conducted a test to see how much it would take for a service provider to take down a web site hosting public domain material and have published their results.
They signed up with ten providers and put online a work by Dutch author Multatuli, who died over 100 years ago. They stated that the work was in the public domain, and that it was written in 1871. They then set up a fake society to claim to be the copyright holders of the work.
From a Hotmail address, they sent out complaints to all ten of the providers. Seven out of ten complied and removed the site, one within just three hours.
Only one ISP actually pointed out that the copyright on the work expired many years ago.
The conclusion of the investigation is worth reading, it starts It only takes a Hotmail account to bring a web site down, and freedom of speech stands no chance in front of the Texan-style private ISP justice
— via boingboing
Proposals by the Security Service to place CCTV cameras in Westminster’s corridors of power have outraged MPs who fear that the proposals for protecting the Commons will enable MI5 to pry into their affairs
A federal appeals court this week struck a blow against Lexmark‘s attempt to protect its share of the lucrative market for refill printer cartridges. The court vacated a preliminary injunction that barred Static Control Components from selling computer chips enabling third-party manufacturers to clone Lexmark’s cartridges
When Georgia woman, Beverly Mitchell, returned home from a 2 1/2 week holiday to Greece, she found that a total stranger had moved into her house, ripped up the carpet, changed the photos on the walls, and was wearing clothes from her closet. The squatter, Beverly Valentine, also switched the utilities over to her own name and installed a washer and dryer — via BoingBoing
A 73-year-old farmer who shot a burglar after being broken into three times could not be criticised for the way he defended his property, a judge has said
The British navy broke new ground in the realm of equal opportunity today, signing on its first satanic seaman. The 24 year old naval technician is looking forward to serving Her Majesty on the high seas, and performing satanic rituals aboard the HMS Cumberland. Predictably, the Tories are not amused…
The UK government has broken its silence on the Indymedia server raid and is claiming that there no UK law enforcement agencies were involved
. It seems that servers nobody seized the servers
Nigeria’s Ogoni tribe has threatened mass action against the local unit of Royal Dutch Shell if the oil giant fails to withdraw troops from the area within seven days
The British High Court has ordered ISPs to hand over the names and addresses of 28 alleged music pirates to Britain’s trade body for the recording industry
Fears of a terrorist attack are not sufficient reason for authorities to search people at a protest, a federal appeals court has ruled, saying 11 September 2001, cannot be the day liberty perished
. A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday that protesters may not be required to pass through metal detectors when they gather next month for a rally against a US training academy for Latin American soldiers
All you need to do to get off a do-not-fly-list is modify your name in some way by adding a middle initial or a suffix. In other words, the folks responsible for the list are too stupid to figure out how to prevent false positives, but a true terrorist can get off the list by adding a middle initial
The FBI has issued an order to hosting provider Rackspace in the US, ordering it to turn over two of the servers [BugMeNot] hosting the Independent Media Centre’s web sites in the UK. Rackspace complied with the FBI order, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia’s server in the UK. This affects over 20 Indymedia sites worldwide. The servers have since been returned, but are being treated as compromised
Three teenagers who complained about leaflets that named them as part of a gang which terrorised
an area of north-west London were told by the High Court yesterday that the publicity had not breached their human rights
The Western Australian Internet Association has slammed the Internet censorship policy created by the Family First Party in the wake of Australia’s biggest ever child porn bust. The group said it shares the public’s outrage
over the child pornography racket but it is concerned that the actions of a small minority could be used as a justification for unwarranted restrictions on the rights of ordinary Internet users to access material freely online
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