French Digital Rights Advocates Decry Telecom Package’s ‘Gradual Response’
Says that the current telecoms package would violate basic civil rights in Europe.
A little over a week ago, we reported on the French Prime Minister overruling democracy and vetoing provisions in the telecoms package that would stop any form of a “three strike provision” in the European Parliament. Recently, French digital rights advocates from [...]
Australian Government to Finance Faulty Internet Filtering Technology
Apparently, keeping your fingers crossed is good enough for the Australian government who plans to use ISP-based filtering technology despite evidence saying it’s a waste of time and money.
There’s an interesting report from Australian IT which says that the Australian government has allocated $125.8 million in taxpayers money to help internet security initiatives – an [...]
Canadian Lawful Access Debate Returns
The Canadian Lawful Access debate was about as cold as the snow still lingering in the far north; but like the snow in some parts in Canada, the debate is now thawing with a new report surfacing over the latest moves.
Lawful Access may be something that some have long forgotten about. In a sense, [...]
Open Rights Group Urges on Fight to Stop Copyright Extension
Two years ago, copyright extension in the UK was shot down. Now copyright extension is not only back in the spot light for the British, but it is also drawing concern for digital rights activists as well.
Last time British copyright extension was brought up, the worry was how songs like those produced by the [...]
California Judge Issues Injunction Against Wikileaks – Domain Shut Down
It may be responsible for leaking thousands of major documents onto the internet, but just yesterday, reports have surfaced that a Californian judge has ordered an injunction on the site, thus wiping wikileaks.org out of existence. While it isn’t true that the entire website was removed, its DNS for the .org domain certainly was [...]
Warner vs. Seeqpod – Testing The DMCA Safe Harbour Provision
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is pointing to the Warner v SeeqPod (PDF) copyright complaint, suggesting that the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) could be tested in the courts
In essence, there are search engines online today that operate under the idea of ‘if it’s illegal, tell me and we’ll take [...]
Experts Debate on AT&T Filtering the Internet
With Time Warner saying that it would cap and introduce consumption-based billing, things for ISP consumers took another hit with AT&T thinking that they would filter the internet to stop ‘digital piracy’. Experts have denounced this idea, saying that it would be a bad idea all around.
The New York Times reported on a small [...]
Groups urge US passage of law aimed at global online free speech
Fourteen human rights urged Congress Tuesday to pass legislation aimed at preventing US technology companies from cooperating with China or other countries in stifling online free speech.
The groups, including Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, issued a joint statement supporting the Global Online Freedom Act of 2006 sponsored by Representative Christopher Smith [...]
