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BBC News - Met Police to extract suspects' mobile phone data
9 days ago by osi_info_program
The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody.
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9 days ago by osi_info_program
ANIC | African News Innovation Challenge
16 days ago by osi_info_program
Journalism and news fund supported by Gates, Omidyar, State.gov, the Adenauer Stiftung, Google, IFCJ and others to support innovations in news creation and distribution in Africa. Zohra Dawood of OSF-ZA is one of the judges.
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16 days ago by osi_info_program
Here Comes OpenLeaks: How It Won't Be WikiLeaks | The Awl
22 days ago by osi_info_program
Meanwhile, Domscheit-Berg's reputation has slowly mended. For example, a matter of weeks ago he was voted back into the Chaos Computer Club, and Andy Mueller-Maguhn was booted off their board. These developments indicate that the steady vindication of Domscheit-Berg, in the hacker world at least, is more or less complete.
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22 days ago by osi_info_program
Queen's speech will hold little hope for squeezed Britain | Politics | The Guardian
23 days ago by osi_info_program
A new internet surveillance bill to help police and security agencies investigate terrorism and serious crime will be the main part of a wider law and order package. The law would build on an existing 2009 EU directive that requires internet service providers to keep customers' mobile phone and internet use data for 12 months.
It would not give the police the power to retain the content of any emails, tweets, or other social media use, and the most "sensitive'' data would be restricted to police, emergency services and intelligence agencies.
After fierce opposition from MPs of all parties, it is expected the legislation will promise to publish a privacy impact statement of the new powers, and the access regime will be overseen by the interception of communications commissioner.
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It would not give the police the power to retain the content of any emails, tweets, or other social media use, and the most "sensitive'' data would be restricted to police, emergency services and intelligence agencies.
After fierce opposition from MPs of all parties, it is expected the legislation will promise to publish a privacy impact statement of the new powers, and the access regime will be overseen by the interception of communications commissioner.
23 days ago by osi_info_program
Europe’s digital chief hopes France can liberalise digital copyright — paidContent
23 days ago by osi_info_program
The French review’s focus is on whether certain re-uses of content should be rendered exempt from being supposed as breaching copyright. That could include:
“temporary copying” intrinsic to streaming
format-shifting for private purposes
extracting works for educational use
introducing broad fair-use exemption.
These technicalities are unlikely to render flagrant copying of whole copyrighted works legal, however, meaning Hadopi will likely maintain its primary role.
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“temporary copying” intrinsic to streaming
format-shifting for private purposes
extracting works for educational use
introducing broad fair-use exemption.
These technicalities are unlikely to render flagrant copying of whole copyrighted works legal, however, meaning Hadopi will likely maintain its primary role.
23 days ago by osi_info_program
EFF Condemns CISPA, Vows to Take Fight to the Senate | Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Hours ago, the House of Representatives voted to approve the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government. EFF condemns the vote in the House and vows to continue the fight in the Senate.
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4 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Spain: Draft law criminalising online organisation of public protests | EDRI
4 weeks ago by osi_info_program
The Spanish Government intends to pass a reform of the Penal Code that would criminalise the organisation of street protests that "seriously disturb the public peace", by any kind of media including online social networks such as Facebook.
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4 weeks ago by osi_info_program
ACTA – if you think we've won, we've lost | EDRI
4 weeks ago by osi_info_program
The current balance is approximately 52.5% of the Parliament opposed to ACTA and 47.5% in favour. To put it in another way, if just 20 MEPs have their minds changed as a result of the massive lobbying campaign currently underway and organised by the European Commission and big business interests, then ACTA will be adopted.
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4 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Ai Weiwei Ordered to Stop Self-Surveillance - China Real Time Report - WSJ
7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Chinese authorities put the finishing touch on artist provocateur Ai Weiwei’s latest performance art piece, ordering him to turn off four live webcams he had installed inside his own home in a wry effort to turn state surveillance on its head.
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7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
The publishers’ complaint takes issue with the way the upstart produces its open-education textbooks, which Boundless bills as free substitutes for expensive printed material. To gain access to the digital alternatives, students select the traditional books assigned in their classes, and Boundless pulls content from an array of open-education sources to knit together a text that the company claims is as good as the designated book. The company calls this mapping of printed book to open material “alignment”—a tactic the complaint said creates a finished product that violates the publishers’ copyrights.
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7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Watching 'Martha': 50,000 affected by security camera privacy breach | smh.com.au
7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Martha – or more likely, one of her carers – was one of up to 50,000 people who bought and installed a security camera made by the US company TRENDnet before it was discovered that the live footage they captured could be watched by anyone with an internet connection, without even having to guess a password.
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7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Court Issues Decision On Intermediary Liability In Viacom v. YouTube | Intellectual Property Watch
7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Sherwin Siy, deputy legal director for online civil liberties group Public Knowledge, issued the following statement:
“We are pleased with the Appeals Court ruling. The Court upheld the basic principles of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Crucially, the Court rejected Viacom’s attempt to create a new duty of those hosting content to monitor actively for infringement in order to qualify for the law’s safe-harbor provisions. The Court upheld the need for knowledge of specific instances of infringement in the DMCA, and that a general awareness of possible infringement is not sufficient.”
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“We are pleased with the Appeals Court ruling. The Court upheld the basic principles of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Crucially, the Court rejected Viacom’s attempt to create a new duty of those hosting content to monitor actively for infringement in order to qualify for the law’s safe-harbor provisions. The Court upheld the need for knowledge of specific instances of infringement in the DMCA, and that a general awareness of possible infringement is not sufficient.”
7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Open and Shut?: World Bank to introduce Open Access Policy
7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
The World Bank has announced today that it is introducing an Open Access (OA) policy. This will mandate that World Bank research outputs and knowledge products are deposited in a newly-created institutional repository called the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), which will be freely accessible on the Internet.
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7 weeks ago by osi_info_program
total-impact awarded $125k Sloan grant! « Research Remix
8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
total-impact has been awarded $125k by the Sloan Foundation
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8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Politics of Poverty: Ideas and analysis from Oxfam America's policy experts » Blog Archive » One important step forward for access to medicines in India, but are two giant steps backwards just around the corner?
8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Last week, the Indian Patent Office took a major step to decrease the price of a previously unaffordable life-saving medicine by issuing a ‘compulsory license’ on Sorafenib, a medicine used for the treatment of kidney and liver cancers. But such welcome action is unlikely to be repeated if the EU and Novartis have their way.
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8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Spain's anti-piracy law may already be obsolete | Reuters
8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
Since a new law came into force at the start of this month, internet traffic has anyway been switching away from websites providing links to copyrighted material, which were targeted by the law, towards peer-to-peer or content-sharing services instead.
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8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
French Council Speaks Out Against Sarkozy's Planned Internet Laws
8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
France’s National Digital Council (CNNum), an advisory committee created by President Nicolas Sarkozy himself, has spoken out against a plan to punish frequent visitors of extremist websites.
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8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
BBC News - Google under fire in UK MPs' report into privacy
8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
An influential group of UK lawmakers has called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so.
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8 weeks ago by osi_info_program
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