ISPs to Ban P2P with New European Telecom Package?
An new European-wide package for ISPs has been discussed before, but new amendments could turn European Internet Service Providers into copyright police. Perhaps the only good news out of this is that network neutrality activism may get a new boost in Europe.
The disturbing report comes right out of todays posting on EDRI.org, a European [...]
US Congress Approves Warrantless Wiretapping – 293 to 129
The fourth amendment to the US Constitution took a serious hit today. Congress has just approved warrantless wiretapping. The news is leaving many civil rights activists disappointed.
In a move that strangely resembles what happened in Sweden two days ago, in spite of fierce opposition, the US congress has approved immunity for Internet Service [...]
Big Brother Comes to Sweden – FRA Law Passed
Earlier today, we reported on the imminent vote on the FRA law that would grant sweeping new powers to the FRA to wiretap people in Sweden through phone conversations, email, text messages and more. Now comes word that the law was recently passed in spite of major opposition.
BoshTalk, a reader of ZeroPaid noted in [...]
Swedish MPs to Vote on Wiretapping Law – Major Protests Planned
Today is the day that Sweden votes on mass wiretapping across the country and the opposition to the FRA law has only grown since first report. According to one account, there are plans for a massive demonstration on the day of the vote.
In less than 24 hours, Sweden will be voting on legislation that [...]
Pulling the Plug on American UseNet
UseNet seems to have always been like Fight Club to many users – you don’t talk about Fight Club. The question is, is the first rule about targeting UseNet, ‘you don’t talk about targeting UseNet’?
There’s a very interesting report on NewTeeVee about ISPs in the United States either talking about or already ending their [...]
ThePirateBay Joins Calls to Stop Swedish Surveillance Legislation
A few days ago, we talked about the new Swedish legislation known as the Lex Orwell legislation that could turn Sweden into a sort of surveillance society. Now, ThePirateBay has recently joined calls to stop it.
The legislation in question would allow for the worlds fifth largest super computer to monitor its citizens though many [...]
Czech Republic Government Close to Implementing Data Retention Directive
Data retention is a big thing in Europe. Some countries governments like it, others do not. It seems that one country is now close to implementing the European Data Retention in their country – the Czech Republic.
The EDRI is reporting that the Czech Republic is “close to approving the data retention implementation as [...]
Wikileaks – Phorm Crashes Browsers, Allegedly Broke the Law 113 Million Times
We have been following the Phorm controversy for some time now and now some new developments have emerged. These developments consist of a leaked internal report which suggests that Phorm broke the law 113 million times during the controversial trials.
Wikileaks has freshly leaked internal report which says some very interesting things. Here’s the Wikileaks [...]
Sweden on Track to Becoming the Next Surveillance Society?
The administrators of ThePirateBay know all to well what it’s like to be spied on. Though if security legislators get their way, the MPAA might not need to hire investigators to keep an eye on them according to EDRI, a digital rights advocacy group in Europe.
If there’s anything the raids on ThePirateBay proved, it’s [...]
Massive Data Retention Protests Hit Germany, Expected to Spread Across Europe
Imagine that every phone call, fax, e-mail, instant message and packet of information that you sent and received was captured by your government and stored for two years, regardless of whether or not a crime was committed. Now imagine thousands of Germans marching in protest. The German protests took place over last weekend [...]
