Monday, July 31, 2006

GikII programme

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The programme for GikII is now finalised. However if you're interested in attending, a very limited number of places are available for...
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Friday, July 28, 2006

Perceptive Peers Go Pervasive, Persuasively

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The House of Lords debates pervasive computing. As IdentityBlog comments. an unelected second House may seem like an anchronism, but the st...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

MySpace Caves

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From Boing Boing Billy Bragg's highly publicized campaign against MySpace's crummy, grabby terms of service has been successful. MyS...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

More Fun with Ted and Alice but not the BPI

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Not a great week for ISPs what with the BPI/Tiscali spat and this. Also from OUT-Law : "A music industry coalition has proposed that IS...

I KNow What You Did Last summer

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.. well actually your credit card does. And your bank. OUT-Law report that: "New powers to allow banks and building societies to remove...

Uber-Code

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From the Cyberprof mailing list : Microsoft's academic outreach officer has anounced that Microsft are adopting "Windows principles...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

YouTube Goes Down the Tube (Not?)

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As most the blogverse has noted, a certain Mr Tur, owner of Los Angeles News Service, is suing YouTube, the free and very popular video hos...
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Google regulation in Germany?

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One idea that's been discussed and repelled here before is that search engines are important actors in cyberspace and that Google has in...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

The ISP Strikes Back

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Further to this post , one of the ISPs involved, Tiscali has now refused to comply with what Cory Doctorow has neatly christened notice-and-...

Security 101

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It really isn't very hard to get people to give up their mother's maiden name..
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The New Statesman, on Living in the Silicon Cul de Sac

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I love it:the New Statesman on why the UK Digerati are never going to be as sexy as their US counterparts (and look, ma, ORG has Americans i...
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Don't shoot the messenger, use him to send a message back?

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Fascianting stuff about the role of ISPs in the fight against file sharing, via ars technica : "Stepping up its campaign against illici...
Friday, July 07, 2006

ORG comes to town

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panGloss has been cordially invited to join ORG, the new UK based Open Rights Group. ORG are hoping to host a social event at GikII, to enco...
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.. aaand it's g'buy to Google Checkout!

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Further to my post on Google Checkout , Boing-Boing usefully reports that : "A week after it was released, eBay has added Google Checko...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Mobile Security :-)

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Finally what the world needs - the phone that won't let you drink and dial your exes. A Korean manufacturer has developed a phone that i...
Saturday, July 01, 2006

Cory Goes to Radio Shack

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http://ldopa.net/2006/06/04/cory-doctorow-visits-a-radio-shack/ Tags: It wasnae me...
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Friday, June 30, 2006

G'Buy to PayPal?

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The Google empire have gone into the on-line payments business. "Search giant Google has launched an online payments system which aims ...
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WEIS and blog

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The Security Lab people at Cambridge - including the esteemed Ross Anderson - have their own blog : full of interesting stories about comput...
Sunday, June 25, 2006

New Privacy Laws for the USA?

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Two interestingly almost simultaneous calls for a uniform set of privacy laws for the US, applicable to private as well as public sectors, ...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Alan Moore vs the Copyright fairies

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While we're considering pop culture and IT law (great stuff for a GikII paper here!) the IPKat reports that Alan Moore, father of the g...