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Petition against government snopping on email

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The Open Rights Group have a petition up against the “Intercept Modernisation Plan” which has been quietly revived and will be reportedly getting about two billion to work out how to spy on our email and web traffic. You and I might think they could do something more useful with that two billion but what do we know. Now I’m enough of a realist to not expect the petition to do much good but equally not signing it will certainly achieve nothing so may as well object. Go and sign it here +30

Distributing social networking

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A while back I kicked in some money to fund the Diaspora project which was aimed at producing a distributed open source, privacy aware secure social networking platform , to replace the likes of Facebook. Outside of the states intrusion into our lives, the readiness with which people give up information to the likes of Google and Facebook (where the users data is the product) concerns me, not least because it provides a single point for governments to concentrate their power. Why bother bugging every ISP when 90% of the population are putting everything you want to know on a … Continue reading →

Paranoid triangulation

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A couple of unrelated articles caught my eye a bit today and led me to wonder just how unrelated they really where, or rather to ponder the impact of both of them coming to pass. Old Holborn highlighted the NUJ calling for state support for the vital democratic work of “proper” journalists. Rather than deal with their work not generally being worth much they like us all to be taxed and then given vouchers to give to “proper” news outlets. I figure this actually has a reasonable chance of getting implemented in some form, as it’s a neat way for … Continue reading →