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
Jeanne Heifetz thought she had merely tripped over one of those quirks that occasionally worm their way into standardised tests. Words were missing from a book excerpt she was familiar with on a Regents English exam. But when she discovered a second extensively altered excerpt, she began to wonder, if there was something sinister afoot?
Newsletter and Internet publisher Paul Trummel, whose February jailing prompted a flood of protests by journalists and others around the US, has now been dispatched to solitary confinement at King County Jail
As the US Congress continues its investigation of the Enron affair, human rights advocates are calling for a probe of the Bush administration’s possible role in another energy and influence-peddling scandal. The retarded monkey boy and US oil interests have ties to some of the key figures in the arms-for-oil scandal which has devastated Angola
French direct-broadcast satellite company Canal Plus alleges that NDS, a company owned by News Corp — which also owns BSkyB — Canal Plus’s biggest competitor in Europe — hacked the smart cards used by Canal Plus and published the hacks on the Internet — via Slashdot
The Philadelphia court has officially overturned the Children’s Internet Protection Act, the law that required blocking software to be installed in all libraries that receive federal funds
Former tennis star Steffi Graf won a court case against Microsoft Germany on Tuesday over fake nude photos of her that were posted on a Web site run by the company
The religious zealots who photograph women entering abortion clinics and posts their photos on web sites have privacy advocates interested in their moronic tactics. Apparently, the group is run by some of the people involved in the Nuremberg Files
Internet addresses packing the famous labels of Ralph Lauren and Polo fashions and an alleged cybersquatter who didn’t even bother to respond to the accusation would normally add up to a slam-dunk decision for a trademark holder under a fast-track system to resolve disputes over domain names
Lord Bingham, the senior UK law lord, called for abolition of the laws against cannabis
Echelon has been surrounded by controversy since rumours of it first popped up on the net. The US Government has never admitted to it, although various other governments have. Now Bruce McIndoe, a lead architect for Echelon and its big brother
, Echelon II, has been discovered and interviewed
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems
NSW Police Minister Michael Costa is seeking to shut down the web site www.snifferdogalert.com, operated by the state’s Council for Civil Liberties and Redfern Legal Centre, which alerts the public via SMS to where drug sniffer dogs are being patrolled
The Eldred vs Ashcroft case concerns the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) which, following intense lobbying by media conglomerates such as Disney and Time Warner, was enacted by Congress in 1998 and extended the term of all existing and future copyrights by twenty years. Eric Eldred, who maintains a web site that gives readers free access to materials whose copyrights have expired, challenged the CTEA with the assistance of the Openlaw project of the Berkman Centre. Although Eldred has lost in both the district and appellate courts, the case has been accepted for review by the Supreme Court
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has upheld Spanish entrepreneur Christian Castresana’s right to use InternetNews.info, rejecting a challenge from media giant INT Media Group
The biggest enemy of free software may be Senator Ernest F Hollings. Legislation introduced in March 2002, by the South Carolina Democrat to require that copyright-protection software be embedded in PCs, handheld computers, CD players — and anything else that can play, record, or manipulate data — could make open-source software such as the Linux operating system illegal
Music CD copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as marker pens and electrical tape
Greenpeace is accusing Japan of buying votes from new members of the International Whaling Commission in a bid to lift a global ban on commercial whaling
In contrast to general public perception, women are generally in the vanguard when it comes to fighting sexual censorship. The civil rights lawyers, activists, sex workers, media pundits, and professors who fight for your right to have dirty pictures are by and large female. Many call themselves feminists. And the people fighting to stamp out pornography today are most decidedly male
An Arlington couple has sued the District, saying an archaic rule requiring babies to have their married father’s surname discriminates against women
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