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08.02.2011 : Tue |
By Violet Blue | August 1, 2011, 11:37pm PDT
Summary
 A bill now makes the online activity of every American available to authorities upon request under the guise of protecting children from pornography.
Violet Blue
Violet Blue is a Forbes Web Celeb, SF Appeal contributor, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired's Faces of Innovation. She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (MacLife, Forbes.com, The Oprah Winfrey Show, others) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets (from ABC News to the Wall Street Journal). A published feature writer and columnist, Violet also has many award-winning, best-selling books; her books are featured on Oprah's website. She was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc. The London Times named Blue one of the 40 bloggers who really count.
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that makes the online activity of every American available to police and attorneys upon request under the guise of protecting children from pornography.
The Republican-majority sponsored bill is called the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 .
It has nothing to do with pornography, and was opposed by over 30 civil liberties and consumer advocacy organizations, as well as one brave indie ISP that is urging its customers to do everything they can to protest the invasion of privacy.
“Protecting Children” forces ISPs to retain customer names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and dynamic IP addresses.
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Written by Green Pirate
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06.20.2011 : Mon |
Comcast has merged with NBC. NBC is one of a list of companies lobbying hard in support of the COICA bill which would make censorship of the internet a standard practice. All I see in this is one giant conflict of interest (your interest). Case law around the First Amendment is pretty clear that you ...
Comcast has merged with NBC. NBC is one of a list of companies lobbying hard in support of the COICA bill which would make censorship of the internet a standard practice. All I see in this is one giant conflict of interest (your interest).
Case law around the First Amendment is pretty clear that you cannot block a much wider variety of speech, just because you are trying to stop some specific speech. Because of the respect we have for the First Amendment in the US, the law has been pretty clear that anything preventing speech, due to it being illegal, must narrowly target just that kind of speech. Doing otherwise is what’s known as prior restraint. – Mike Masnick explains at techdirt
I am greatly disquieted by ISPs having such a direct vested interest in profiting from content.
What I’m watching unfold here is Comcast, which was formerly an internet service provider charged with •providing access to data• shifting their business strategy toward •restricting access to content•. This pursuit will be conducted under the same security-blanket business model which content pimps have long clung to.
Understand the difference between data and content. It is crucial to understanding your rights and how they are being affected. I consider it requisite to forming your own opinion on the matter. “Data” encompasses a much broader scope than “content”.
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Written by Seth Schoen, EFF
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05.23.2011 : Mon |
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News Roundup by Seth Schoen
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you?
 It's very concrete for Malte Spitz , a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a right to see what private companies know about them — to force his cell phone carrier to reveal what it knew about him. The result? 35,831 different facts about his cell phone use over the course of six months. As the German newspaper website Zeit Online reports :
This profile reveals when Spitz walked down the street, when he took a train, when he was in an airplane. It shows where he was in the cities he visited. It shows when he worked and when he slept, when he could be reached by phone and when was unavailable. It shows when he preferred to talk on his phone and when he preferred to send a text message. It shows which beer gardens he liked to visit in his free time. All in all, it reveals an entire life.
To show just how extensive this data is, Spitz chose to make it all available to the public; Zeit Online used it to prepare a remarkable interactive map , which animates Spitz's movements, moment by moment, over the course of half a year. It's correlated with information Spitz willingly posted on the web, and, according to him and the newspaper, is remarkably, eerily accurate. Try it out.
A report in the New York Times on Saturday described the data release, which it called "astounding", and put it in a U.S. context, quoting EFF's Kevin Bankston. The Times tried to find out whether U.S. mobile phone carriers have similar data about their subscribers, but it said "[t]he major American cellphone providers declined to explain what exactly they collect and what they use it for."
EFF has been following this issue for years and has worked extensively to limit government access to location data about individuals ; government agents have increasingly sought to use this information, using questionable legal arguments to get carriers to turn it over. Still, it's remarkable to see an actual location data set about a real person. (According to the Times, German carriers have, for legal reasons, now stopped routinely storing this data. However, like all mobile phone carriers, they still have the technical ability to collect it at any time.)
Malte Spitz explains why he worked to obtain this information : to help educate the public about some of what's at stake in the German and worldwide debates about telecommunications data retention. All around the world, including the United States, proposed laws would force carriers to retain enormous quantities of personal information. As Spitz and Zeit Online have shown, these troves of information can give a detailed picture of each person's private life.
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Written by Nancy Scola, The American Prospect
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04.14.2011 : Thu |
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Apple's decision to remove an anti-gay app from iTunes might be seen as a victory for gay-rights groups, but are we losing something bigger in the long run? Last week, the gay-rights group Truth Wins Out celebrated Apple's decision to pull from its store an app by Exodus International, perhaps the best-known "ex-gay" organization in the world. The app, a near mirror of Exodus' website -- including its podcasts, FAQs, blog posts, and news updates -- was removed after a petition circulated on Change.org collected more than 150,000 signatures. "The message Apple is sending here is clear: there is no place for 'ex-gay therapy' on the Apple platform," said a Change.org editor.
But there was another message that also came across: It's Apple's job to police who can see what online.
 At 350,000 apps and counting, the Apple apps store can only be described as a huge commercial success; Apple recently hit the 10 billion download mark, and the $10,000 gift card Apple gave the lucky downloader could buy enough cheap software for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches to run several companies -- and perhaps a few small countries. (I'm editing this piece on my iPad using office software that costs $10.) The store is also a major platform for developers: For $99 a year and a 30 percent cut of sales, they get a chance in front of a large audience. It's a shot Exodus no longer has and a decision that's drawn the ire of at least one gay-rights advocate.
A rare voice of dissent in the situation came from Dennis Ayers, the managing editor of the gay site AfterElton.com. For one thing, Ayers wasn't relishing serving up a chance for LGBT activists to be tarred as cultural censors. But more fundamentally, wrote Ayers, "as vehemently as we might disagree with Exodus International's mission and beliefs, we think they should be allowed to express them."
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Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting.
Well for example, the other day Linda and I went into town and went into a shop. We were only in there for about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?" He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him a turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires.
So Linda called him a sh#thead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more ticke!ts he wrote.
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