US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops
The lives of Roman Catholics in some of the countries worst hit by HIV/AIDS are being put at even greater risk by advice from their churches that the use of condoms does not prevent transmission of the disease
Long-time C|Net reporter and Politech operator Declan McCullagh has been contacted by the FBI, requesting that he retain all records regarding his talks with Adrian Lamo. The problem? The FBI’s letter was sent under the auspices of a law which applies only to internet service providers
New UK regulations that will implement a European directive on copyright could mean up to two years in jail for file-swappers
A disused industrial site at Green Square will become Sydney’s first legal squat, where students will live for a token sum pending redevelopment of the site. Six art students and four architecture students are due to move into the dilapidated Waverley-Woollahra incinerator within the next three weeks pending approval from South Sydney Council. The project already has tentative support from the property’s owners, Waverley Council and Woollahra Council
Seventeen conservation and wildlife protection groups filed suit this week to challenge the federal decision to lower the status of the gray wolf from endangered to threatened in the lower-48 states. The decision would also ultimately hand over species management to state governments, at least one of which has called for extermination of the species
A flaw critics have warned of in the RIAA’s series of lawsuits against consumers — the possibility that ‘innocent’ file-sharers could appear ‘guilty’ — is the subject of a newly released anonymous paper; Entrapment: Incriminating Peer to Peer Network Users
One of Moby‘s fans is being sued by the RIAA, and Moby is far from impressed
The Federal Government has been urged to investigate allegations that failed asylum seekers have been encouraged by Government officials to use fake passports. It is claimed immigration officers supported the use of false documents in order to bypass passport controls in other countries
The Queensland Government’s plan to issue smartcard driving licences to the state’s 2.5 million motorists could seriously compromise privacy rights
The five major US library associations are planning to file a legal brief siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios. The development could complicate the RIAA’s efforts to portray file-swapping services as rife with spam and illegal pornography
Cyberspace users in India are up in arms against the government. For the first time since the Information Technology Act, 2000, was introduced, the government has banned a site, Yahoo Groups, for publishing anti-government material. Many netizens believe the government is trying to gag the Internet, a medium for free flow of information
Daniel Geer, one of the primary authors of a report Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security, was fired from @stake Thursday morning. @stake said that; The values and opinions of the report are not in line with @stake’s views and that Geer’s participation was not sanctioned. Microsoft, who has worked closely with @stake in the past, denied that it was involved in @stake’s decision to fire Dan
A controversial Pentagon big brother program, Total ‘Terrorism’ Information Awareness, that called for monitoring databases containing data on millions of Americans for signs of terrorist activity is set to be killed off by a stop on funding
A group of Israeli reserve air force pilots drew condemnation for refusing to carry out air strikes in Palestinian areas, but their unprecedented protest set off an emotional debate on the ethics of the targeted killings of militants
The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music — possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders
Microsoft Windows Update is offering a download for their 1.0 version of the Microsoft Windows Rights Management client, if you care to download it. Although it’s not required or a critical update, this just paves the road for all of Microsoft’s software to require DRM technology on your computer
Unmarried and homosexual partners of Armed Forces personnel are to be given the same rights of compensation and pensions as widows
A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago… in Canada
A senior police officer has argued that every single person in the UK should be compelled to have their DNA on the national database in an effort to prevent crime
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