Some public library systems around the state won’t provide the federal government with records of their patrons’ reading habits, but they will still comply with that controversial requirement in the USA Patriot Act
AntiCap UK, a not-for-profit pressure group, has been launched in the UK to campaign for unlimited broadband access after ntl’s decision to limit the amount of downloads customers can make to one gigabyte per day
Stephen Avery, of Briar Court, Oxford Road, Smethwick, whose dog was nearly half its natural weight, has been banned from keeping an animal for five years and ordered to do two years of community service
Executives of companies found guilty of price-fixing could face jail terms under a federal government overhaul of competition law
Legislation aimed at blocking freedom of information applications on the government’s internet censorship regime appears to be heading for defeat in the Senate, as the Democrats are unlikely to support it
The House approved nearly $19 billion in tax breaks Friday for energy companies and power producers and set up a showdown with the Senate over energy policy, particularly oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge
Congressional Republicans, working with the Bush administration, are manoeuvring to make permanent the sweeping anti-terrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of 11 September 2001
Is your Internet service provider appropriating your intellectual property? The question was bought home to NZ IT columnist Bruce Simpson when he found the ISP he was using claimed rights over his intellectual property in its terms and conditions
The 70th anniversary wasn’t noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago — 27 February 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilised citizens all across the world
A Los Angeles police officer, Kelly Chrisman, used department computers to access confidential law enforcement records of celebrities and sold the information to tabloids
Radio stations that are 100% digital can’t play certain copy-protected CDs because the copy-protection doesn’t allow them to rip the tracks on to their station’s system. Copy-protection is therefore directly responsible for the lack of airtime in this market by the artists who choose to copy-protect their CDs.
An Oregon anti-terrorism bill would jail street-blocking protesters for at least 25 years in a thinly veiled effort to discourage anti-war demonstrations
The music industry fired another strong counterattack, suing four college students at three universities who run file-sharing sites
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, England’s most senior family judge, said that homosexual partnerships should be recognised by law and transsexuals should have the right to marry in an assumed gender
The Federal Government will create new offences for those who use the Internet to incite or promote suicide
The notion that as a Marine he would be expected to kill people somehow escaped Stephen Funk when he enlisted. Yesterday, 47 days after he refused to report for active duty in Iraq, Funk declared himself a conscientious objector
After getting a standing ovation as he walked on stage, Michael Moore was later visibly shaken at the loud boos and jeers that followed his anti-Bush comments at the Oscars
CNN has effectively halted correspondent Kevin Sites’ blog at kevinsites.net
War profiteering has already begun and their targets are ordinary Australians, who they aim to dupe with simple yet cunning plans
The conflict in Iraq has spurred a wave of Web attacks from hackers expressing views about the war
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