Excellent Interview with Privacy Commissioner Ann Couvakian
Search Engine’s Jesse Brown interviews the Canadian Privacy Commissioner in his usual fearless and thoughtful style in this first of a two part series. My only complaint is that there is a bit of fear...
View ArticleAct Now in Defense of Net Neutrality in Europe
Slashdot has the details including links to where you can take action. Though it doesn’t mention it by name, this reads like the amendment and revision activity that has taken place previously in the...
View ArticleIn the EU? Call Your MEP about Citizen’s Rights Amendment
The evolution of the pending reform of telecommunications regulation in the EU has been noting if not confusing. There has been maneuvering to try to push the French inspired three strikes rule into...
View ArticleMicrosoft Training Retailers in FUD, Cluelessness and Cluefulness around...
I managed to catch up a little bit yesterday after getting home from my travels. Catching up involved mostly just flagging things to read later, though, not so much the actual reading and note taking....
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TCLP 2009-09-13 News
This is news cast 190. In the intro, a reminder I will be speaking at the Maryland Ubuntu Loco for Software Freedom Day on the 19th. That will be at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. You...
View ArticleMore Debate on Defining Broadband, a Zombie Broadcast Flag, Google Launches a...
IBM mandates OOo for internal use According to Linux Magazine, it is actually their OpenOffice.org based product, Lotus Symphony. They are also adopting ODF as a standard, though, which is probably...
View ArticleBletchley Park Receives Lottery Grant, China Finally Starst Blocking Tor, and...
Android hacker routes around Googles cease and desist At Ars, Ryan Paul explains what I expected Cyanogen to do, here. He has pushed the burden of grabbing the proprietary bits onto the end user,...
View ArticlePATRIOT Act Reform Stumbles, Jamming Junk Mail, and More
Reform of PATRIOT Act gutted during mark-up According to the EFF, one of the author’s of the amendment that would help restore some privacy protections acted to weaken the very same amendment at the...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week of 10/4/2009
MDY v. Blizzard appealed Dave Farber warns against network neutrality Prosecutors prepare to appeal ruling in Lori Drew case Hackers ship circumvention tool for Green Dam Felten and colleagues defeat...
View ArticleBroadband Access a Legal Right in Finland, Ringtones Are Not Performances,...
Finland declares broadband a legal right The article notes that to start with, citizens will be guaranteed access to a 1MB connection with plans to improve that to 100MB in the next decade. The...
View ArticleAn Ode to Lady Ada, Random Hacks of Kindness, and More
Random hacks of kindness Yes! I was thrilled to see this O’Reilly Radar piece that exemplifies the very definition of the word “hacktivism”. According to the post by Brady Forrest, the idea was...
View ArticlePiracy More Lucrative than Legal Downloads, Morality’s Role in the Copyright...
Piracy much more lucrative than legitimate downloads Gaven sent me this link which substantiates claims that many rights holders make more from pressing damages against online file sharers than...
View ArticleCopy-Less Book Scanning, A Detailed Case of iPhone App Piracy, and More
A new bill could undermine EFF’s DMCA exemption petition The EFF has gone to bat for consumers seeking a DMCA exemption for unlocking phones. While they are waiting on a ruling, some providers have...
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TCLP 2009-11-01 News
This is news cast 195. In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music. This week’s security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd...
View ArticleMicrosoft Did Violate GPL (and Comes into Compliance), Potential Impact of...
Microsoft admits it violated GPL, corrects its mistake The Register has the details, including a confirmation that an internal investigation did indeed confirm they violated the license. They have...
View ArticleEFF’s Terms of (Ab)use Tool Launches, Mozilla’s Integrated Login, and More
EFF launches project to shed light on terms of use When the EFF launched ToSBack, a project to highlight the changes in terms of service over time, my sole lament was the lack of analysis to help us...
View ArticleNorwegian Consumer Group Prepares Legal Challenge to Facebook
Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian Consumer Council, has studied extensively how the privacy policies and terms of service for various social networking services mesh with their local consumer rights and...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Dodges Privacy Concerns
A lot of folks are picking up this story originally from Gawker of statements Eric Schmidt made on a CNBC program. The troublesome quote? If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe...
View ArticleAnother Online Privacy Bill Introduced
Senators Boucher and Stearns have first introduced a discussion draft of the bill, according to Cecilia Kang at the Washington Post. Unlike the earlier bill I talked about in the last podcast, this one...
View ArticleA Bill of Rights for Social Network Users
Kurt Opsahl at EFF has a good follow up to his call for Facebook to follows its declared principles. He has posted a short bill of privacy rights specifically for those using social networks. The Right...
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