November 6th Nov - 12th Nov 2006 Privacy links at RunningWithBulls.com

November 6th Nov - 12th Nov 2006 Privacy links

Published by bbt November 13th, 2006 in bernard, data protection, data retention, digitalrights, digitalrightsireland, internet, irishblogs, privacy, runningwithbulls.com

November 2006 Privacy links - RWBWiki

Continuing the privacy related links or the week, here are is 6th Nov-12th Nov (a little late because I’m in Germany Dusseldorf).

This weeks links include:

electronic voting

* Punchscan incorporates cryptography into e-voting
* Does technology help or hinder election integrity?
* Watchdog groups report e-voting problems in US mid-term elections

Identity Cards/Surveillance/electonic passports

* Intel drafts privacy license for mobile device software
* Tony Blair monthly press conference where he speaks about Britain’s surveillance society, and the English compulsory ID Cards and National Identity Register (NIR)
* Tony Blair: We need ID cards to secure our borders and ease modern life
* Traffic reports to derive from cellphone location data
* US Govt report rejects RFID for identification use
* US wants global data law

International Travel

* American Homeland Security data mining all international travelers
* USA to ground all travellers until ‘cleared’

Internet Usage

* Brazil: The Proposal to Control Net Access
* T-Online forced to delete IP logs

Music/FairPlay/DRM

* BPI plans direct authorisation for CD copying
* Creatives slam British Council copyright report
* BPI lobbies Gowers for a ‘private right to copy’
* Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study

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