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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
What Are The Risks of Letting Others Write In Your Space
In the last couple of weeks I had someone come on this site and post, via anonymous comments, a series of diatribes that were a serious attack on another individual and company. The information was detailed but utterly unsubstantiated. The tone was extremely angry. The allegations ranged from deception to outright fraud. I also did a little IP address tracing and determined that the person had gone to some lengths to hide their address.Within a matter of hours I contacted people who knew something about the companies and person involved, cogitated on what to do, and decided to remove all posts from that individual. I did so without compunction and didn't think anything else about it. I don't normally remove comments, in fact that was only the second time in the four five years I've had this site. But I guess this kind of thing is going to become more common and we're being forced to deal with it. [More...]
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
A EULA For Our Data
Matt Mower has another stellar idea for how to manage our data - how about a EULA that businesses have to accept before they can use our data. Wouldn't you love to turn the tables on Microsoft?Friday, November 18, 2005
Legal Network Podcast on Patriot Act Renewal
Coast-to-Coast is a series of general interest legal podcasts produced by the LegalTalkNetwork and hosted by Robert Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams. These two bill themselves as the "top legal bloggers" and I find that bit of hubris a little offputting, but they do have some good shows.Today's 'cast on The Patriot Act presents two views - a former FBI agent turned Congressional candidate and an ACLU representative. It's an interesting discussion and well worth listening. Both sides make valid points, and both sides are really worried about excesses already occurring.
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The Steady Creep of Statist Control
The insidious creep of anti-terrorism laws to include all criminal activity - and the complementary definition creep which links every potential criminal activity to the support, promotion, or funding of terrorism - continues unabated amid abusive government behavior and growing use of secret National Security Letters that prevent recipients, under penalty of jail, from ever disclosing that they've been served. From a Washington Post investigative report:Senior FBI officials acknowledged in interviews that the proliferation of national security letters results primarily from the bureau's new authority to collect intimate facts about people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing. Criticized for failure to detect the Sept. 11 plot, the bureau now casts a much wider net, using national security letters to generate leads as well as to pursue them. Casual or unwitting contact with a suspect -- a single telephone call, for example -- may attract the attention of investigators and subject a person to scrutiny about which he never learns.The PATRIOT ACT Renewal bill - our first chance to undo many of the wrongs pushed through by the Bush Administration's John Ashcroft - is being gutted. It appears that rather than striking the most onerous parts of the PATRIOT Act, the bill is actually making them worse. EFF has all the requisite information.
Historically, what countries have embraced such laws - subjecting millions of citizens to secret surveillance, making it a crime to disclose the surveillance, and hiding the reality of the laws from the public? If you answer this question honestly you'll be hard-pressed to find a democracy on your list.
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