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Archive for 2011/01/17
Goldman Sachs and the U.S. government have yet another thing in common: they’re both getting buggered by pesky information leaks.
Posted: 2011/01/17 in Education / AwarenessGoldman Sachs today announced that it is rescinding its offer for elite Goldman investors to buy up private company shares in Facebook, because it appears that doing so would be, you know…illegal
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/45145/goldmans-facebook-investment-torpedoed-by-media-coverage/
Top Dutch civil servant Pieter de Gooijer has come under fire after Wikileaks’ disclosure of messages from the United States embassy in The Hague. Dutch newspaper says Labour MP Frans Timmermans is objecting to Mr De Gooijer becoming the Dutch ambassador to the European Union
Posted: 2011/01/17 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyA statement from the company on Monday said its supervisory board had “passed a unanimous resolution to revoke Mr Smutny’s appointment”, adding that it “disapproves these conversations and the quotes attributed to Mr Smutny”.
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Posted: 2011/01/17 in Bandwidth Management, Blocking, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionNow with TurboDPI, equipment manufacturers can more easily integrate DPI to enable a variety of features such as protocol analysis, application recognition, intrusion prevention, anti-malware protection, URL Filtering, unified threat management, antivirus gateways, subscriber charging, application aware QOS and service level agreements, usage monitoring and preventing denial of service.
http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Cavium-Networks-Introduces-TurboDPI-A-0001
Disclosures in an Internet service provider’s subscriber agreement and privacy policy concerning third-party monitoring of subscriber Internet activity constituted sufficient notice of and assent to the deployment and use of “deep packet inspection” technology, a district court held
Posted: 2011/01/17 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionIn addition to the disclosures in the documents, the court noted, the ISP also separately provided notice to subscribers and gave them an opportunity to opt out of the monitoring. Although the court found that the monitoring constituted an “interception” within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the subscribers were deemed to have consented to the interception within the meaning of the Act.
More: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a64ab5c0-0159-4667-a73e-8c37adde7ebe
And: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46328420/Mortensen-v-Bresnan-12-13-10
Rudolf Elmer, former employee of the Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, appeared today with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at London’s Frontline Club to announce he had turned over to Wikileaks thousands of records of tax-evasion activities by the extremely wealthy in the Cayman Islands
Posted: 2011/01/17 in Education / Awareness
Applying U.S. principles on Internet freedom
Posted: 2011/01/17 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyUsing the Internet to promote what Hillary Clinton called “human progress and political rights” is precisely one of WikiLeaks’ primary objectives. Yet the real agents of harnessing Interent and media technologies to promote freedom and human rights in Tunisia (and elsewhere) are either currently imprisoned by the U.S. (Manning), being harassed and on the verge of being prosecuted (WikiLeaks), or constantly demonized in the American media (Al Jazeera). And that’s all being done by the same government that stands behind these repressive regimes and punishes those who seek to expose them — all while lecturing the world about the evils of those who seek to stifle transparency and freedom.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/17/internet/
WikiLeaks turned the tables on governments, but the power relationship has not changed
Posted: 2011/01/17 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyThe information genie cannot be put back into the bottle, however hard authorities try. But the authorities continue to exploit the internet as a means of control
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/17/wikileaks-governments-journalism
