Tag: laws
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FBI Slams Anti Snooping Encryption Methods
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Big shady government organisations are much more common in the US than here in the UK. More often than not, the biggest ones are quite opposed to the idea of tech companies embracing new ways to keep user data out of the hands of government snoopers, with some new mobile phones possibly being ‘snoop-proof’ due…
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UN Advised to Take Action on ‘Wild West Web’
‘Global controls will have to be imposed and a world governing body will be created to enforce them. Crises precipitate change.’ Okay, you got me, that’s Deltron 3030, but this freedom and social control based story does remind me of the government-busting liberty loving space-rapper himself, Deltron Zero (and Automator). According to Thomas Hammarberg, Council of…
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US Judge closes the book on Google online library
Google has gone “too far” – claims a US Judge who has slammed closed the book on the search giant’s online library after recent revamps and expansion into a mobile phone version of the service. Google Books provides readers with a huge selection of searchable books, magazines and scanned literature at a cost, but it now…