The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the operator of Torrent-finder.com have separately vowed to fight domain-name seizures by two US agencies in recent days — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The central IT office of Australia’s Federal Government has requested that agencies consider the use of alternative file formats to Adobe’s PDF.
The advice follows a study which found that while accessibility of the Portable Document Format (PDF) has improved over time and remains a popular format for many organisations, it was less accessible to visually-impaired users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 70 sites alleged to be selling counterfeit goods or offering pirated content have been shut down by the US government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian director of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says its new vessel has the potential to stop Japanese whaling.
The fast interceptor vessel, which is registered in Fremantle and cost $4 million, is called Gojira.
It is the first Sea Shepherd vessel to be registered in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of VPN versions used
as well as biometric information, according to a secret directive made public today by WikiLeaks.org — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has released extracts from secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current global concerns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United States has rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents, saying the whistleblower website is holding them in violation of US law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wikileaks has revealed plans to publish a new tranche of secrets, this one seven times larger than last month’s massive 400,000 military reports about the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The coalition appears to have shelved plans to introduce new protections for public sector workers who blow the whistle on dangerous, corrupt or incompetent practices, the Guardian has learned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major policy shift on the length of time terror suspects can be held without charge was signalled by Labour today, after the shadow home secretary said he could support cutting the limit to 14 days.
Ed Balls said that the party was ready to abandon backing for the current 28-day limit, which was introduced by the Labour government in 2006, and added that previous plans to raise this to 42 days had been a step too far
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the US government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed. Earlier Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-0 to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A friend of mine sent me this about his TSA experience. He, unlike most of us, was coming back into the country from Afghanistan on a military charter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him.
The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two US Customs and Border Protection agents at the door of his plane when he arrived at JFK airport on a Jet Blue flight from the Dominican Republic. The agents escorted him to a detention room where they held him for four and a half hours, he says. During that time, a forensic investigator arrived and seized Marlinspike’s laptop and two cell phones, and asked for his passwords to access his devices. Marlinspike refused, and the devices were later returned to him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has backed away from supporting a test case on equal pay for women, arguing it would threaten the budget — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At least seven people have been charged with participating in an international organ-trafficking network based in Kosovo that sold kidneys and other organs from impoverished victims for up to $200,000 to patients from as far away as Israel and Canada, police and senior European Union officials said Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A campaign has launched aimed at improving the online experience for people with disabilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German court has ruled that tattooing a pony with the Rolling Stones’ famous tongue logo would infringe animal rights law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Legislation to introduce mandatory ISP filtering has now been deferred to the second half of 2013, according to strategy papers issued by the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Watching the debate over the merits of gay marriage, I feel like I am watching a scene from the movie The Castle
where the totally underprepared solicitor for the plaintiff gives as his sole argument: It’s the vibe
.
That pretty much sums up the quality of the arguments being put forward by those opposing marriage equality. While supporters of gay marriage have abundant and cogent arguments about why it is right and fair, its opponents have nothing more to offer than I don’t like it
or that’s what the Marriage Act says
. They put forward no justification because there is no justification — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two little boys will have their testes removed after a court allowed their parents to authorise the procedure to prevent them developing potentially fatal cancers.
The boys, aged 18 months and three years, have been diagnosed with Denys-Drash syndrome, which is so rare they are thought to be the only two people in Australia who have it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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