Evgeny Morozov has been raising awareness of the need for a careful security review of Haystack, software developed by Austin Heap that the author describes as: Haystack is not an ordinary proxy system. It employs a sophisticated mathematical formula to hide users’ real Internet traffic inside a continuous stream of innocuous-looking requests. In addition to…
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India’s new IT law increases surveillance powers
John Ribeiro reports: A new IT law has come into force in India that frees Internet portals from liability for third-party content and activity, but also gives the government powers to monitor communications on the Internet, and block web sites that are found to be offensive. The Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 was passed by…
Sweat Becomes Offenders’ New Snitch
Fredrick Kunkle and Derek Kravitz report: The government has buried its nose in Bari Lynne Williams’s personal business. Almost literally. Twenty-four hours a day, whether she’s jogging, sleeping or managing a pool hall, Williams wears a high-tech sensor on her ankle that can detect the faintest whiff of alcohol in her perspiration. If she sneaks…
Copyright law threatening
Kris Kotarski has an op-ed in the Calgary Herald on copyright enforcement threatening privacy. He writes, in part: It is increasingly apparent that modern copyright law is utterly and completely incompatible with the right to privacy. This is at the core of the Pirate movement in Europe which broke through to elect its first members…