To some of us, this is a young technology. To my students, “it has always been there.”
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2223208&from=rss
The Web Is 16 Today
Posted by kdawson on Monday November 13, @06:15PM from the raise-a-glass dept. The Internet
GuNgA-DiN writes, "Today marks the 16th anniversary of the World Wide Web. According to the timeline on the W3.org site: 'The first web page [was] http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)' A lot has happened in 16 years and this little 'baby' has grown into quite the teenager."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/surveillance_society/
Privacy chief: we're all in UK.gov's pockets
By Mark Ballard Published Thursday 2nd November 2006 11:11 GMT
The surveillance state is sorting society into pockets of desirable and undesirable people and treating them accordingly, a major survey by the UK's privacy guardian, the Information Commissioner said today.
The democratic values of equality and freedom are threatened by the creeping advance of surveillance into all walks of life, according to A Report on the Surveillance Society, edited by two of the world's leading thinkers on the social consequences of surveillance, Kirstie Ball and David Murakami Wood.*
[PDF: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_11_06_surveillance.pdf ]
Big Brother's watching Canadians ... and they don't like it
SCOTT DEVEAU Globe and Mail Update
Almost half of Canadians find anti-terrorism laws in the post-9/11 world intrusive, according to a new international Queen's University survey.
Americans were even more concerned than Canadians about these new national security laws, with 57 per cent saying they were invading their privacy.
The Queen's survey, published Monday, is believed to be the largest of its kind. It explores the attitudes of 9,000 people from eight different countries on topics ranging from consumer surveillance, racial profiling at airports, workplace privacy, to trust in government. It found a wide-range of cultural commonalities and differences between the countries chosen - Canada, the U.S., China, France, Spain, Hungary, Mexico and Brazil.
[For more information on the Surveillance Project, an executive summary of the GPD survey findings or pdf version of the survey’s Ipsos Reid report, go to: http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/ ]
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/54222.html
E-Discovery Amendments: Save Your Old Voice Mail
By Jennifer LeClaire www.EcommerceTimes.com Part of the ECT News Network 11/14/06 4:00 AM PT
"Under the federal rules amendments, judges will be increasingly vigilant about production of all forms of electronically stored information, and companies should be proactive in processes for preserving and producing voice mail and other audio files," said Kenneth N. Rashbaum, compliance attorney and partner at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold.
WARNING! This web site has not been approved by Bill Gates.
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6134647.html
With IE 7, green means go for legit sites
The Microsoft browser will soon use a green address bar to indicate that you can trust a Web site--but it will leave some smaller businesses out.
By Joris Evers Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: November 13, 2006, 4:00 AM PST
Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site--but only in some cases, not all.
Advances in technology will make it even easier to “Rip the Vote!”
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72113-0.html?tw=rss.index
Election '08: Vote by Tivo
By Keith Axline 02:00 AM Nov, 14, 2006
In the wake of yet another election marred by technical glitches, critics of electronic voting machines are repeating their call to restore old-fashioned paper to the increasingly computerized election process.
But a smaller, quieter group is convinced the real solution lies in the other direction. Now is the time, they say, to make elections completely electronic, and allow voters to cast their ballots from home, over the internet.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061113/010636.shtml
If You Ask A Stranger To Take Your Photo, You May Have Violated Your Digital Camera Contract
from the lovely dept
The Against Monopoly blog is discussing the creeping of end user license agreements (EULAs) out of the digital world into the physical world -- often through embedded software. In this case, they note that when you buy a digital camera, you may own the hardware, but the EULA on the embedded software has massive restrictions on how you can use the camera, even suggesting that: "If you let anyone outside your immediate family use the camera--if you lend it to a friend for the weekend or even ask a stranger to take a picture of you and your wife--Canon could technically sue you for breach of contract." We're reaching an age where you will actually own less and less of what you buy, and instead will be held to various license agreements and terms of service even after the purchase.
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