http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=4488
Police keep data about demonstrators’ relatives
October 12, 2009 by Dissent Filed under Govt, Non-U.S., Surveillance
Bae Hyun-jung reports:
Family members of those who violated the law on assembly and demonstration have their personal information recorded in the police database, without their knowing, said a lawmaker.
“The police, in trials involving the candlelight vigil participants, submitted as evidence the past criminal records of their family members who were not involved in the assembly,” said Rep. Choe Kyoo-sik of the main opposition Democratic Party on Sunday.
Such investigation methods correspond to the involvement system, which is banned by the Constitution, the lawmaker said.
Investigators may at any time refer to the database, which shows whether any family member has ever been arrested, indicted, convicted, or even just suspected of violating the assembly law, he said.
Read more in The Korea Herald.
Language for more modern constitutions? More important, a precedent for the EU?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=4483
Unconstitutionality of law on telecommunication data retention
October 11, 2009 by Dissent Filed under Court, Internet, Legislation, Non-U.S., Surveillance
If I’m understanding this article correctly, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has declared certain provisions of Law 298/2008 on telephone data storage unconstitutional because the law violates articles of the Romanian Constitution. The court considered the matter in a dispute between Orange Romania and the Commissariat for Civil Society (CSC).
The text of the Constitution provides that “the secrecy of letters, telegrams and other postal communications, of telephone calls and other legal means of communication is inviolable”. Under Law 298/2008, communication service operators can provide prosecutors with traffic and localisation data related to services of internet access, email and internet telephony only if criminal proceedings have been initiated in the case for which they require information.
Read more on Curierul National. A story from another site provides some additional detail and suggests that CSC initiated the legal challenge to the law.
In the US, we have to fight the Privacy fight each time a “new” technology is introduced
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=4480
Activists demand privacy protections for DC One Card
October 11, 2009 by Dissent Filed under Featured Headlines, Govt, Surveillance, U.S.
Michael Neibauer reports:
Privacy advocates have sounded the alarm about the District government’s effort to issue a single, traceable identification card to residents, urging the D.C. Council to adopt legislation that protects the privacy of all users.
The DC One Card has been adopted by the Fenty administration as a single credential for use as a school and government employee ID, as a SmarTrip card for Metro, as a library card and as a recreational facility access card. It is designed to be used by any District government agency, though only a handful have signed on so far.
[...]
The Office of the Chief Technology Officer is bound by a privacy policy that limits data collection to a minimum and bars the agency from tracking users, Willey said. But other government entities, he added, are not bound by OCTO’s privacy policy — in fact, an agency that uses the One Card is under no obligation to have a privacy policy at all.
And that might be the problem, Cheh said after Friday’s hearing. OCTO has oversight of the One Card initiative by default because it created the technology, she said, but there is no office setting governmentwide standards.
Read more in the Washington Examiner.
For my lawyer/astronaut friends.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022537.html
October 11, 2009
New Report: Space Security 2009
"A newly issued study provides a comprehensive source of data and analysis on space activities and their cumulative impact on the security of outer space. Space Security 2009 has been jointly released by Project Ploughshares and Secure World Foundation on behalf of the Space Security Index, an international research consortium. This is the sixth annual report on trends and developments in space, covering the period January to December 2008."
Yep, it's gotta be the end of Twitter. Or maybe they just fired their staff of Twitter updaters to save money?
Miley Cyrus Explains Twitter Exit; Courtney Love Leaves Too
Stimulus and response. If it sounds improbable, check the facts. If it sounds familiar (logic isn't required) run with it and check the facts later... if you have time... and feel like it.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/11/1439222/Misadventures-In-Online-Journalism?from=rss
Misadventures In Online Journalism
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 11, @10:44AM from the dewey-defeats-obama dept.
An anonymous reader writes
"Paul Carr, writing for TechCrunch, has posted his take on some of the flaws inherent to today's fast-paced news ecosystem, where bloggers often get little or no editorial feedback and interesting headlines are passed around faster than ever. His article was inspired by a recent story on ZDNet that accused Yahoo of sharing the names and emails of 200,000 users with the Iranian government; a report that turned out to be false, yet generated a great deal of outrage before it was disproved. Carr writes, 'Trusting the common sense of your writers is all well and good — but when it comes to breaking news, where journalistic adrenaline is at its highest and everyone is paranoid about being scooped by a competitor, that common sense can too easily become the first casualty. Journalists get caught up in the moment; we get excited and we post stupid crap from a foreign language student blog and call it news. And then within half a minute — bloggers being what they are — the news gets repeated and repeated until it becomes fact. Fact that can affect share prices or ruin lives. This is the reality of the blogosphere, where Churchill's remark: that "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" is more true, and more potentially damaging, than at any time in history.'"
Tools & Techniques for Hackers
MailMyWeb.com (Beta)
If you can' t access the internet through your restriced corporate network, MailMyWeb.com is the solution !
… (Incidentally you can watch videos, use search engines and read your online-community mails)
Tools & Techniques for my Forensics and hacker students. (Apparently they are seeing a lots of “questionable” photos.)
http://exifremover.com/index.php
EXIF remover
Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras. The specification uses the existing JPEG, TIFF Rev. 6.0, and RIFF WAV file formats, with the addition of specific metadata tags. It is not supported in JPEG 2000, PNG, or GIF.
… . EXIFremover is a web tool that allows you to easily delete EXIF information online.
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