[via boingboing.net]
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
Tag: censor
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.
Posted by – 04/02/2010
Google Toolbar Tracks Your Browsing Even After It’s Been Disabled
Posted by – 26/01/2010
[via gizmodo.com]
If Google is the Borg, Google Toolbar is the Terminator: just when you think you’ve killed it, it comes right back to murderize the Sarah Connor that is your privacy. What a creepy move.
Ben Edelman ran a few tests with the Google Toolbar, and found that, yes, Google keeps tracking your browsing even after you politely ask it not to. They also make it easy to enable certain tracking features and much more difficult to disable the same.
Edelman also found that Google’s disclosures have gotten worse over time, to the point of being downright duplicitous:
Google ‘censors its website so anti-Islam searches fail to appear’
Posted by – 11/01/2010
[via dailymail.co.uk]
Search engine Google has been accused of censoring its results after users discovered it never suggests search terms when it comes to Islam.
In a time-saving feature the internet phenomenon, whose motto is ‘don’t be evil’, helpfully suggests common searches as people type in what they are looking for.
For example, if you type in ‘Christianity is’ in the search bar a whole range of options flash up including controversial suggestions such as ‘Christianity is fake’ and ‘Christianity is a cult’.
Google has been accused of censoring offensive searches relating to Islam
No Clean Feed
Posted by – 04/01/2010
[via nocleanfeed.com]
The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and will not make anyone safer.
The filter will do almost nothing to prevent the people who are willfully making, trading, and accessing child sexual abuse material. This type of material is not distributed in the open and we need to fund police to continue to infiltrate and prosecute the groups of people responsible for creating and distributing such material.