Good trend: privacy as commodity
Angwin-Steel, 2011: Web’s Hot New Commodity: Privacy http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160764037920274.html
Cf. Laudon, 1996: Markets and Privacy
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(a) the term “person” means an individual or entity; (b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and (c) the term “United States person” means any United States citizen or national, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
EXECUTIVE ORDER BLOCKING PROPERTY AND PROHIBITING CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS RELATED TO LIBYA -
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The End of the Copyright Trolls’ Business Model? “Thousands of unnamed “John Does” in P2P file sharing lawsuits filed in California, Washington DC, Texas, and West Virginia have been severed, effectively dismissing over 40,000 defendants. The plaintiffs in these cases must now re-file against almost all of the Does individually rather than suing them en mass. These rulings may have a significant impact on the copyright trolls’ business model, which relies on being able to sue thousands of Does at once with a minimum of administrative expense. The cost of filing suit against each Doe may prove prohibitively expensive to plaintiffs’ attorneys who are primarily interested in extracting quick, low-hassle settlements.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/over-40-000-does-dismissed-copyright-troll-cases
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AN ACT establishing domestic union as a valid contract and extending certain rights to parties to a domestic union. https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/HB0569.html
Cf. http://pileusblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/new-hampshire-bill-would-abolish-marriage-licensing/
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Court confirms: IP addresses aren’t people “[...] Just because some lawyer cites an Internet Protocol (IP) address where illegal file sharing may have taken place, that doesn’t mean that the subscriber living there necessarily did the dirty deed. Or is responsible for others who may have done it. [...]” http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/court-confirms-ip-addresses-arent-people-and-p2p-lawyers-know-it.ars
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The Trouble With “Balance” Metaphors “[...] Perhaps the most obvious problem with balancing metaphors is that they suggest a relationship that is always, by necessity, zero sum: If one side rises, the other must fall in exact proportion. Also implicit in balancing talk is the idea that equilibrium is the ideal, and anything that upsets that balance is a change for the worse. That’s probably true if you’re walking a tightrope, but it clearly doesn’t hold in other cases. [...]
the familiar trope of “balancing privacy and security” is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because while there are clearly sometimes tradeoffs between the two, it often seems that the zero-sum rhetoric of “balancing” leads people to view them as always in conflict. This is, I suspect, the source of much of the psychological appeal of “security theater”: If we implicitly think of privacy and security as balanced on a scale, a loss of privacy is ipso facto a gain in security. It sounds silly when stated explicitly, but the power of frames is precisely that they shape our thinking without being stated explicitly.
There’s a deeper problem, though: Embedded in the idea of the scales is a picture of a process for arriving at sound decisions—which if the metaphor is sufficiently pervasive we may come to think of as the only method for making sound decisions. [...]
Obviously, we need to use shorthand terms like “privacy” and “security” to keep discussion manageable, but is it really especially illuminating to treat every proposed security measure as though its consequences can be reduced to quantity subtracted from an undifferentiated lump of privacy stuff, and a quantity added to a blob called security? The task of analysis is always aided when we can render heterogeneous interests more easily comparable by reducing them to some uniform measure, of course, but balance metaphors imply that we’ve already achieved this. This may be why so many legal opinions employing “balancing tests” feel so thin, and so many arguments about where to “strike the right balance” between competing values founder. The metaphor assumes a lot of analytic background work that hasn’t actually been done—and conceals the fact that it still needs to be.” http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/02/04/the-trouble-with-balance-metaphors/
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The belt sander & the battle for privacy, a body hack: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+belt+sander+and+the+battle+for+privacy+a+body+hack
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How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-stop-domain-names-being-seized-by-the-us-government-110205/
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Top 5 Cyberlaw Developments of 2010, Plus a 2010 Year-in-Review http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/01/top_cyberlaw_de_5.htm
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iPhone Users Are About to Be Screwed Over: “There has been a lot of talk about the addition of an NFC (near field communication) chip to the next-gen iPhone. This will allow the phone to be used as a swipe-it-yourself credit card. I consider this technology to be the most onerous ever. [...]
If you think your banker is a gouger with dubious fees and no-leeway, what do you think the phone company will be like? Yes, let AT&T handle all your money for you, and see how that works out in the end.
I’m immediately reminded of the online scams that took place during the modem era of communications. You’d be given a number to call, and it would actually be some sort of scam. The local number would connect to a BBS of some sort which would send a code back to the modem to turn off the speaker, so you couldn’t hear the modem disconnect and then redial a number in Bulgaria or some obscure island. You’d then be connected to a phone service that charged $100/minute for the connection. After racking up thousands and thousand of dollars in phone costs, you’d get the bill from your phone company for $30,000.
You’d bitterly complain about the bill—these stories were all over the news during this era—but the phone companies said they couldn’t do anything about the charges. The rates were protected by some U.S. treaty scammed together by the phone companies and signed into law. There was nothing they could do! So, you had to pay or lose your phone service and be sued in court.
This was unbelievable.I’ve always been convinced this was test marketing to show the banks and everyone that the phone companies were the best collection agencies and should be in charge of your credit card and other transactions. After all, you can stall the bank, and what can they really do, anyway? You stall the phone company and you are disconnected from the world.
Do not let AT&T or Verizon or any phone company anywhere near your day-to-day financial transaction business!
You’ve been warned.” http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376702,00.asp
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Whole ISPs & telecoms behind VPN: “Soon the decision of Parliament to impose new requirements on telecommunications companies to store information about their customers, but there are telephone companies that have decided to oppose the law.
Internet operator Bahnhof for example, will do everything it can to make the law as toothless as possible. [...]
- In our case, we plan to let our traffic to go through a VPN service, “says Jon Karlung who is president. [...]” http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx%3Fprogramid%3D1646%26artikel%3D4311500&act=url
Cf.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0320209/Swedish-ISPs-To-Thwart-EU-Data-Retention-Law
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/29/0417208/UK-ISPs-Consider-VPN-To-Avoid-Piracy-Crackdown
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Privacy of legal persons: “Does FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] give corporations the same personal privacy rights as natural born people?” http://epic.org/amicus/fccvatt/
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If corporations must be treated as “persons” for the purpose of campaign contributions – as the Supreme Court mandated last year in the infamous Citizens United decision – why shouldn’t they also enjoy “personal privacy”? [...]
[...] we should ask about the social functions served by privacy protections. Yes weaker privacy protections make it easier to hold firms accountable, but that applies to individual humans as well. And if stronger privacy protects folks more against abuse by governments or others, that benefit should apply to firms as well. Yes people may just have a direct preference for privacy, but such preferences may be weak, and perhaps people working at a firm feel similarly about the privacy of their firm.
For most definition disputes, pretending to resolve it via conceptual analysis just isn’t very honest. It is more honest to argue about the desirability of various consequences of alternate social conventions.”
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/01/define-via-consequences.html
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Why you should always encrypt your smartphone http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/guides/2011/01/why-you-should-always-encrypt-your-smartphone.ars
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Executive Order on Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review, guiding principles:
- Cost-effective and Cost-Justified: Consistent with law, Agencies must consider costs and benefits and choose the least burdensome path.
- Transparent: The regulatory process must be transparent and include public participation, with an opportunity for the public to comment.
- Coordinated and Simplified: Agencies must attempt to coordinate, simplify, and harmonize regulations to reduce costs and promote certainty for businesses and the public.
- Flexible: Agencies must consider approaches that maintain freedom of choice and flexibility, including disclosure of relevant information to the public.
- Science-driven: Regulations must be guided by objective scientific evidence.
- Necessary and Up-to-Date: Existing regulations must be reviewed to determine that they are still necessary and crafted effectively to solve current problems. If they are outdated, they must be changed or repealed.
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“[...] I’ve been growing increasingly alarmed by stories like this: the US government subpoenaing Twitter (and reportedly Gmail and Facebook) users over their support of Wikileaks. The casual use of subpoenas, including against foreign citizens is worrying enough – the New York Times says over 50,000 “national security letters” are sent each year – but even more concerning is the fact that often these subpoenas are sealed, preventing the companies from notifying the users they affect.
It used to be that if the US government wanted access to documents or letters in my possession they’d have to subpoena me directly. As a foreign citizen there are all sorts of ways I could fight the request – and it was at least my choice whether to do so. As someone living in the US I also had the whole weight of the 4th Amendment on my side. Now, with everything in the cloud, the decision whether to hand over my personal information is almost entirely out of my hands. And unless, as happened with Twitter, the company storing my data decides to fight for openness on my behalf, there’s every possibility that I won’t even hear about the request until it’s too late. That’s just not how things should work in a free society.
Of course, it remains statistically unlikely that I’m going to be the subject of a subpoena any time soon. I’m hardly an enemy of the state. But then again, until recently, neither were many of the supporters of Wikileaks. Who’s to say that an innocuous organisation I give support to today won’t suddenly become highly controversial tomorrow?
For that reason, I’m giving serious thought to the idea of taking my communications back out of the cloud: switching back to a traditional email client and storing my documents on my encrypted hard-drive. [...]” http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/why-im-having-second-thoughts-about-the-wisdom-of-the-cloud/
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Iceland summons US envoy over demand for MP’s Twitter details http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/iceland-us-ambassador-twitter-wikileaks
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Leaked – WHO/UNICRI Cocaine Project:
“Hightlights
• The WHO/UNICRI Cocaine Project is the largest study on cocaine ever undertaken. The
study was made possible through the generous contribution of the Italian Ministry of
Interior. The project produced:- Country Profiles on Cocaine from 19 developed and developing countries;
- Key Informant Study reports from drug users and others with an extensive
knowledge of cocaine use from 19 cities on almost every continent;
- A Natural History Study report on four sites in South America and Africa. [...]
• Health problem; from the use of legal substances, particularly alcohol and tobacco, are greater than health problems from cocaine use.
• Few experts describe cocaine as invariably harmful to health. Cocaine-related problems are widely perceived to be more common and more severe for intensive, high-dosage users and very rare and much less severe for occasional, low-dosage users.
• A majority of health consequences may not be directly attributed to cocaine use. Cocaine often contributes to or exacerbates the conditions reported, rather than causing them.
• There are widespread myths bet few scientific studies of the relationship between cocaine and
sexual behaviour. One finding was that sexual problems seem to occur among high-dosage regular cocaine users.
• A range of mental health problems are associated with cocaine use, though they are mainly limited to high-dosage users. [...]
• Most countries believe there needs to be more assessment of the adverse effects of current drug policies and strategies. [...]” http://www.tni.org/archives/docs/200703081409275046.pdfCf.: http://www.tni.org/archives/drugscoca-docs_sixhorsemen#4a
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Chodorov, 1947: Taxation is Robbery: https://fee.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Taxation-is-Robbery1.pdf
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Censorship law, European Union (Hungary): quotations & comments
Almost full text of
- the “Act on [...] the fundamental rules on media content” http://www.kim.gov.hu/misc/letoltheto/act_civ_media_content.pdf and
- the “Act on media services and mass media” http://www.kim.gov.hu/misc/letoltheto/media_law_04012011.pdf
Quotations:
Act on the freedom of the press (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak ) and the fundamental rules on media content:
“TITLE I DEFINITION OF TERMS
Article 1 [...] 6. Printed press materials: Individual issues of daily newspapers and other periodicals as well as on-line newspapers and news portals provided as a service for profit, for the content of which a natural or legal person or a business association without legal personality bears editorial responsibility, the primary objective of which is to distribute textual or image contents to the public for information, entertainment or training purposes in a printed form or via an electronic communications network.” -i.e., blogs with ads are “printed press materials”.
“TITLE II SCOPE OF THE ACT
Article 2 (1) This Act shall apply to media services and printed press materials provided by a media content provider established in the Republic of Hungary.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a media content provider shall be deemed as established in the Republic of Hungary when it meets the following criteria: [...]
c) when either the central seat of executive management or the place where editorial decisions are made is located in the territory of the Republic of Hungary, with the majority of the media content provider’s staff being employed in the territory of the Republic of Hungary”“Article 3 [...] (4) In case of violation of this Act, the Media Council of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority may proceed and apply sanctions in accordance with the provisions of the Media Act on official proceedings.” –
Only Fidesz nominees were elected to the Media Council, meaning that no places were left for the opposition or the Fidesz alliance (KDNP) party.
“TITLE III FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Article 4 [...] (3) The exercise of the freedom of the press may not [...] violate public morals [...].” -i.e., sensibility of churches and of the majority.
“Article 5 (1) The Act may set official registration as a precondition for [...] the publication of printed press materials.” -
e.g. blogs, see the definition above
“Article 6 – (3) In exceptionally justified cases, courts or authorities may – in the interest of protecting national security and public order or uncovering or preventing criminal acts – require the media service provider and any person employed by or engaged, in any other legal relationship intended for the performance of work, with the media content provider to reveal the identity of the informant.”
“TITLE VI OBLIGATIONS OF THE PRESS
Article 13 (1) All media content providers shall provide authentic, rapid and accurate information on local, national and EU affairs and on any event that bears relevance to the citizens of the Republic of Hungary and members of the Hungarian nation.
(2) Linear and on-demand media content providers engaged in news coverage operations shall provide comprehensive, factual, up-to-date, objective and balanced coverage on local, national and European issues that may be of interest for the general public and on any event bearing relevance to the citizens of the Republic of Hungary and members of the Hungarian nation.”“Article 16
The media content provider shall respect the constitutional order of the Republic of Hungary [...].” -the ruling Fidesz party, based on its supermajority in Parliament, have radically limited the scope of constitutional supervision in the country, effectively suspending what was a constitutional democratic republic
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ac8db2a-f1af-11df-bb5a-00144feab49a.html , and de facto pushing national-corporatist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism values on us. Actually, they are creating a new constitution for Hungary, alone, based on de jure these values as well.Should we respect a national-corporatist order, be it however constitutional?
“Article 17 [...] (2) The media content may not offend [...] against – whether expressedly or by implication – [...] any majority as well as any church or religious groups.” – no comment.
Act on media services and mass media:
[No comment]:
“General Provisions
Article 41 [...] (4) The Authority shall keep an administrative register of [...]
i) online media products and news portals.”“Article 187
(1) In case of repeated infringement, the Media Council and the Agency shall have the right to impose a fine on the senior officer of the infringing entity in an amount not exceeding HUF 2,000,000 [EUR 7,000], in line with the gravity, nature of the infringement and the circumstances of the particular case. [...]Cf. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=GDP/capita+Hugary+/+GDP/capita+UK
(3) The Media Council and the Agency [...] shall have the right to impose the following legal consequences: [...]
b) it may impose a fine on the infringer in line with the following limits:
ba) in case of infringement by a JBE media service provider and the media service provider under the regulations on the limitation of media market concentration, the fine shall be of an amount not exceeding HUF 200,000,000 [more than EUR 700,000]; [...]
bc) in case of a newspaper of nationwide distribution, the fine shall be of an amount not exceeding HUF 25,000,000 [EUR 90,000]; [...]
bf) in case of an online media product, the fine shall be of an amount not exceeding HUF 25,000,000 [EUR 90,000];
bg) in case of a broadcaster, the fine shall be an amount not exceeding HUF 5,000,000;
bh) in case of an intermediary service provider, the fine shall be of an amount not exceeding HUF 3,000,000 [...]
d) it may suspend the exercise of the media service provision right for a specific period of time”“Responsibility of the broadcasters and intermediary service providers for the broadcasting of media services and media products
Article 188
(1) The broadcaster and the intermediary service provider shall be responsible for the broadcasting of media services and media products in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2)-(4) and Article 189.
(2) The broadcaster may be obliged to suspend or terminate the broadcasting of media services in accordance with Article 189.
(3) The intermediary service provider may be obliged to suspend the broadcasting of media services and online media products in accordance with Article 189.
(4) The broadcaster shall not be responsible for the content of the programme of the media service provider resident in a state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and European Convention on Transborder Television and in its supplementary Protocol signed in Strasbourg on 5 May 1989 and promulgated by Act 49 of 1998. The broadcaster, however, may be obliged to suspend the broadcasting of the media service under Article 189, taking into account of the provisions of Articles 176–180.Article 189
(1) When the Media Council resorts to the legal consequence against the media service provider [...] the broadcaster shall [...] terminate the broadcasting of the media service covered in the resolution as defined in the request.
(2) When [...] the [...] the media service provider fails to fulfil the terms of the final and executable resolution specifying also legal consequences at the request of the Media Council or the Agency, the broadcaster [...] shall suspend the broadcasting of the media service covered in the resolution as defined in the request. [...]
(4) When — in case of an online media product — [...] the publisher fails to fulfil the terms of the final and
executable resolution specifying also legal consequences at the request of the Media Council or the Agency, the broadcaster [...] shall suspend the broadcasting of the media product covered in the resolution as defined in the request. [...]
(6) When the broadcaster and/or the intermediary service provider fails to fulfil the provisions of the request defined in paragraph (1)–(4), the Media Council or the Agency shall institute ex officio administrative proceedings against the broadcaster or the intermediary service provider and shall have the right to apply the legal consequences defined in Article 187 (3) (bg) or (bh).”INTERPRETATION
Section 203 [...]
30. Intermediary service provider shall mean the service provider providing services in connection with the information society, which
a) is engaged in the transmission of the information supplied by the recipient of services through a telecommunications network or the provision access to the telecommunications network (mere conduit and network-access);
b) [...] (caching);
c) is engaged in the storage of the information supplied by the recipient of the service (hosting);
d) [...] (search services). [...]42. Media content shall mean any content offered in the course of media services and in media products. [...]
60. Media product shall mean individual issues of dailies or other periodical papers, internet newspapers or news portals, which are offered as a business service, for the contents of which a natural or legal person, or a business entity with no legal personality has editorial responsibility, and the primary purpose of which is to convey contents consisting of text or images to the general public with the aim of providing information, pleasure or education, in a printed format or through any electronic telecommunications network. [...]”
In Hungarian:
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The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent http://www.conceivablytech.com/4823/business/the-ultimate-patent-troll-patent-get-sued-when-you-file-a-patent/
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Is reading wife’s e-mail a crime?: “A Rochester Hills man faces up to 5 years in prison — for reading his wife’s e-mail.
Oakland County prosecutors, relying on a Michigan statute typically used to prosecute crimes such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets, have charged Leon Walker, 33, with a felony after he logged onto a laptop in the home he shared with his wife, Clara Walker.
Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair. He now is facing a Feb. 7 trial. She filed for divorce, which was finalized earlier this month.
Legal experts say it’s the first time the statute has been used in a domestic case, and it might be hard to prove [...]” http://www.freep.com/article/20101226/NEWS03/12260530/1011/NEWS09/&template=fullarticle
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Analysis: Violating the rule of law in Hungary
Eötvös Károly Institute, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Transparency International Magyarország:
Assessing the First Wave of Legislation by Hungary’s New Parliament 23 July 2010 http://helsinki.hu/dokumentum/Hungarian_NGOs_assessing_legislation_July2010.pdfEötvös Károly Institute, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Hungarian Helsinki Committee:
The second wave of legislation by Hungary’s new Parliament – Violating the rule of law 13 December 2010 http://www.ekint.org/ekint_files/File/hungarian%20ngos%20assessing%20the%20second%20wave%20of%20legislation.pdf -
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President Can Assassinate Americans, First in History: “On Dec. 7, the case before U.S. District Court Judge John Bates in Washington was described by him as presenting “stark and perplexing questions.” Can the president, the judge continued, “order the assassination of a U.S. citizen without first affording him any form of judicial process whatsoever, based on the mere assertion that he is a dangerous member of a terrorist organization?”
What did Judge Bates decide? He dismissed the case! [...]
There is indeed strong evidence that Anwar al-Aulaqi is an influential jihadist — much of that evidence provided by him in his many public statements, carried on jihadist websites, that sometimes call for putting Americans on target lists. Also, he appears to be connected to certain terrorist organizations and even to certain specific terrorist attacks here.
But he is an American citizen, born in New Mexico in April 1971 and having moved to Yemen in 2004. Nonetheless, the Obama administration has, all by itself, decided that al-Aulaqi is fatally a man without a country with regard to his life.
Said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU (New York Times and Washington Post, Dec. 8):
“If the court’s ruling is correct, the government has unreviewable authority to carry out the targeted killing of any American, anywhere, whom the president deems to be a threat to the nation.
“It would be difficult,” Mr. Jaffer added, “to conceive of a proposition more inconsistent with the Constitution, or more dangerous to American liberty.” [...]
How come, President Obama?
This is one of the increasing times when our mortal enemies, the terrorists, have caused some of their intended American victims, myself included only because I’m American, to ask, “Is this still America?” [...]
“If Americans win a war (not just against Saddam Hussein but the longer-term struggle) and lose the Constitution, they will have lost everything” — Lance Morrow, Time Magazine, March 13, 2003.
Who will we be then?”
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Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate:) http://torrentfreak.com/author-slams-ebook-piracy-son-outs-her-as-a-music-pirate-101213/
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“The following principles should govern the dissemination of primary legal materials in the United States:
1. Direct fees for dissemination of primary legal materials should be avoided.
2. Limitations on access through terms of use or the assertion of copyright on primary legal materials is contrary to long-standing public policy and core democratic principles and is misleading to citizens.
3. Primary legal materials should be made available using bulk access mechanisms so they may be downloaded by anyone.
4. The primary legal materials, and the methods used to access them, should be authenticated so people can trust in the integrity of these materials.
5. Historical archives should be made available online and in a static location to the extent possible.
6. Vendor- and media-neutral citation mechanisms should be employed.
7. Technical standards for document structure, identifiers, and metadata should be developed and applied as extensively as possible.
8. Data should be distributed in a computer-processable, non-proprietary form in a manner that meets best current practices for the distribution of open government data. That data should represent the definitive documents, not just aggregate, preliminary, or modified forms.
9. An active program of research and development should be sponsored by governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials to develop new standards and solutions to challenges presented by the electronic distribution of definitive primary legal materials. Examples include the automated detection and redaction of private personal information in documents.
10. An active program of education, training, and documentation should be undertaken to help governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials learn and use best current practices.”
http://public.resource.org/law.gov/
Legal Bug Tracker: http://bugs.resource.org/
Cf.: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/12/help-us-debug-the-legal-bug-tr.html
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Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers http://ftc.gov/os/2010/12/101201privacyreport.pdf
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Hello all #isp of the world. We’re going to add a new competing root-server since we’re tired of #ICANN. Please contact me to help.
https://twitter.com/brokep/status/8779363872935936-
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Torrent users sue US Copyright Group for fraud and extortion: “[...] In short, Shirokov’s lawsuit is accusing Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver of knowingly breaching copyright law to make money. The big picture is that it’s alleging that the US Copyright Group is guilty of extortion, fraudulent omissions, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, fraud upon the court, abuse of process, fraud on the Copyright Office, copyright misuse, unjust enrichment, and consumer protection violations.” http://www.techspot.com/news/41341-torrent-users-sue-us-copyright-group-for-fraud-and-extortion.html cf. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/01/1818242/Torrent-Users-Fight-Back
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Natural Law. A Logical Analysis: Summary “Anarchocapitalism, at least in its Rothbardian version, presupposes the existence of a natural order or law of human affairs. First, there is a brief discussion of the distinction between orders of natural and orders of artificial persons. This is followed by a partial analysis of the notion of law as an order of persons. The analysis is presented as a formal axiomatic theory. Then the notion of a natural person as well as the postulates that we need for a description of natural law as an order of natural persons are introduced within that formal theory of the law of persons. The last two sections discuss various ways in which the theory of natural law can be linked to descriptions of human affairs, and contrast the anarchocapitalists’ view of the order of the human world with the alternatives that have come to dominate political and social thought.” http://www2.units.it/~etica/2003_2/vandun.pdf
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Map of connections between narcotrafficers (NARC) and public servants (FUNP) in Mexico
Source: http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/high-res/salcedo.jpeg
admin is discussing. 
Cf. https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9206998/How_Apple_and_Google_will_kill_the_password_