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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:10 AM EST |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:15 AM EST |
A TPP insider group raises a host of concerns including questions
about who has privileged access, whether civil society groups will also have
access and be invited to join, and the extent of behind-the-scenes consultations
with industry groups. While DFAIT may seek to justify the creation of an insider
group based on the need for expert advice, the lack of transparency with the TPP
is now exacerbated by a two-tier approach to TPP information with a select,
secret group gaining insider access to information.
DFAIT should immediately
disclose who has been invited to join the insider group, why it is has
established a two-tier approach, and how it intends to ensure that all Canadians
have access to the latest TPP developments.
Michael Geist[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 10:12 AM EST |
Deep packet inspection standard adopted despite
Germany's warning that it will "empower" censorship. Other uses: detecting
BitTorrent transfers and identifying "copyright protected audio
content."
A United Nations summit has adopted confidential
recommendations proposed by China that will help network providers target
BitTorrent uploaders, detect trading of copyrighted MP3 files, and, critics say,
accelerate Internet censorship in repressive nations.
Approval by the U.N.'s
International Telecommunications Union came despite objections from Germany,
which warned the organization must "not standardize any technical means that
would increase the exercise of control over telecommunications content, could be
used to empower any censorship of content, or could impede the free flow of
information and ideas."
The ITU adopted the confidential Y.2770 standard for
deep packet inspection -- only members, not the public, currently have access to
the document
Declan McCullagh, CNET[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 12:30 PM EST |
It would cost more money than the entire US software industry earns
each year just for each software firm’s lawyers to skim read the 40,000 software
patents published in the US each year. Obviously this is a ridiculous statement,
there are only 40,000 registered patent attorneys in the US so this cannot
happen, leaving the gate wide open to frivolous legal suits from competitors and
patent trolls.
In reality it seems, many patents don’t even get read. It’s
almost as if we have taken our collective creativity and placed it in to a
locked box where the main benefactors are lawyers and profiteers. In fact, there
is no almost about it.
Neuro
Bonkers, Scientific American
Neurobonkers is an anonymous science
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 12:40 PM EST |
"Photographers are still being classified as potential terrorists in a newly
released document from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI."
PhotographyisNotaCrime.com [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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