Silicon Republic reports: From today any Eircom subscriber that attempts to access file sharing site The Pirate Bay or related IP addresses will find themselves blocked, Eircom has confirmed. In a statement this morning Eircom said it was following a High Court order. “In making the Order, requiring Eircom to block access to The Pirate…
New law threatens students’ privacy rights – MCLU
Tom Porter of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network has a piece on a new law that comes into effect in Maine next week that will enable the state Department of Education to track the progress of students using their social security numbers. While the law makes it optional for students and parents to provide schools…
A casualty of the technology revolution: ‘locational privacy’
Adam Cohen of The New York Times has an opinion piece on locational privacy and why there hasn’t been as much attention paid to its loss as we might expect. He hypothesizes that one reason may be that we enjoy having certain technology in our lives, and that the down side of such technology may…
Thousands call for Turing apology
Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing. Writer Ian McEwan has just backed the campaign, which already has the support of scientist Richard Dawkins. In 1952 Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a…