George Bush has been spying emails and other electronic data to check on the war on terror. But now an american non profit organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush and other senior members of his...
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In 2007, Stephanie Lenz made a short video of her son dancing to a song by Prince, which was taken down. Due to the DMCA, copyright holders have been able to order takedowns of YouTube videos without having to worry...
This is probably as relevant as political debate, hands-on protest, and civil disobedience get in the digital age:
"A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's...
Representatives for Major League Baseball's web and television division are threatening to sue the makers of Slingbox, which allows users to stream their subscribed cable content from television to Internet-enabled...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is collecting stories of border problems. "Having Trouble at the Border? EFF Wants Your StoriesHave you had any difficulties entering or leaving theUnited States? If so, EFF would like to hear from you.After focusing attention on the...
KSFO 560 AM from Bay Area is caught in a controversy. Yes Spocko the blogger has been wagging a single handed battle against ABC Radio, which has irked Walt Disney. The group, which symbolises entertainment and fun, has not been able to take Spocko's criticism in a light...
"The Department of Justice made good its threat to file a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by EFF against AT&T over its collaboration with the NSA's massive program to wiretap and data-mine...
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"After report says millions of Americans' phone records have been given to the National Security Agency (NSA), Bush says privacy is ''fiercely protected.''"
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"The United States government filed a Statement of Interest Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against ATT, announcing that the government would assert the military and state...
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"It's called NARUS and it is the evolution of tracking software, it allows thousands of emails and phonecalls to be monitored for terms like terrorist, bomb, etc. But it goes further it puts them into context, reads between the lines and can determine if the terminology being...
EFF's evidence regarding AT&T's dragnet surveillance of its networks includes a declaration by Mark Klein, a retired AT&T telecommunications technician, and several internal AT&T documents. This evidence...
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"The coalition aimed at putting a stop to AOL and Yahoo's plans to charge fees to send e-mail will include two political adversaries: the liberal MoveOn.org and the conservative RightMarch.com political action committees."
"If a consumer chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to...
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