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		<title>CircleID: Privacy</title>
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		<description>Latest Privacy related postings on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2008-12-04T12:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>China Internet Cafes Forced to Switch Computers Running Microsoft to Chinese Operating System</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Authorities in the southeastern Chinese city of Nanchang are requiring all local Internet cafes to replace their Microsoft Windows XP operating systems with a Chinese-made system, Red Flag Linux, according to officials and Internet cafe owners. An official with the Nanchang Cultural Discipline Team, which oversees the roughly 600 Internet cafes operating in Nanchang city, said the new operating systems were mandatory. "We have already started installing the new software in all Internet cafes. All of them must have this new one," the official said. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/china_internet_cafes_microsoft_to_chinese_os/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-12-03T14:51:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Cybercrime and &quot;Remote Search&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to news reports, part of the EU's cybercrime strategy is "remote search" of suspects' computers. I'm not 100% certain what that means, but likely guesses are alarming. The most obvious interpretation is also the most alarming: that some police officer will have the right and the ability to peruse people's computers from his or her desktop. How, precisely, is this to be done? Will Microsoft and Apple &ndash; and Ubuntu and Red Hat and all the BSDs and everyone else who ships systems &ndash; have to build back doors into all operating systems? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081202_cybercrime_and_remote_search/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-12-02T17:56:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>The Web&apos;s Benevolent Dictators</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Rosen has a great article in the <em>New York Times Magazine</em> this weekend titled Google's Gatekeepers. In it he deals with the question of whether we are becoming too overly dependent on a few big web companies like Google &ndash; and whether it's wise over the long run for us to trust their team of (currently) very nice, well-meaning people who are trying hard to do the right thing when faced with government censorship demands and surveillance pressures. He writes... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081201_the_webs_benevolent_dictators/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-12-01T11:45:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>policy_regulation</category><category>privacy</category><category>web</category>
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			<title>Ties That Bind</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that "Google knows you're pregnant before you do". I can say this because the things you search for will change as your life changes, and search engine providers may well be able to spot the significance of these changes because they aggregate data from millions of people. Now Google's philanthropic arm, google.org, has shown just what it can do with the data it gathers from us all by offering to predict where 'flu outbreaks will take place in the USA. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/ties_that_bind/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-22T10:09:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Whois Masking Considered Harmful</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible database called "Whois", where your contact details are instantly harvested by spambots and marketers who proceed to email and postal mail you marketing offers, deceptive "domain slamming" attempts, ads for dubious products, and perhaps even telemarketing calls. Nobody likes that, so over the years people started resorting to various tactics to protect themselves from the deluge of crap that inevitably comes with simply registering a domain name... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081120_whois_masking_considered_harmful/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-20T12:30:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>domain_names</category><category>privacy</category><category>whois</category>
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			<title>The Harsh Reality of Spam and Online Security&#8230; Should I Stay or Should I Go?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Working in the anti-spam and online malware fight can be depressing or at best invoke multiple personality disorder. We all know things are bad on the net, but if you want a dose of stark reality, check out Brian Kreb's fantastic 'Security Fix' blog on the <em>Washington Post</em> site... Speaking to an old friend who asked me what I was doing these days, I recently likened the fight against this relentless onslaught to having one's pinky in a dyke, and there are days when I don't even think we have a dyke! <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081113_reality_of_spam_online_security/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-13T14:13:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>dns</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>privacy</category><category>security</category><category>spam</category>
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			<title>Government Net censorship Plan Facing Backlash in Australia</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As opposition grows against the Government's controversial plan to censor the internet, the head of one of Australia's largest ISPs has labeled the Communications Minister the worst we've had in the past 15 years. Despite significant opposition from internet providers, consumers, engineers, network administrators and online rights activists, the Government is pressing ahead with its election promise of protecting people from unwanted material, this week calling for expressions of interests from ISPs keen to participate in live trials of the proposed internet filtering system. Michael Malone, head of iiNet, Australia's largest ISP, said he would sign up to be involved in the "ridiculous" trials, just to show how impractical it is. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/government_net_censorship_australia_backlash/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-11T10:17:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>access_providers</category><category>broadband</category><category>censorship</category><category>policy_regulation</category><category>privacy</category>
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			<title>Internet Black Boxes to Record Every Email and Website Visit in Britain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database. The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers earlier this week. It is further evidence of the Government's desire to have the capability to vet every telephone call, email and internet visit made in the UK, which has already provoked an outcry. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_black_boxes_record_email_visit/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-07T12:15:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Who is Responsible in Our Cloudy World?</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081102_who_responsible_in_cloudy_world/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A number of large technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, have announced that they have signed up to a voluntary code of conduct on how they do business in countries that curtail freedom of expression like China and Singapore... It's not surprising to see this sort of self-regulation being proposed as otherwise political initiatives like the <em>Global Online Freedom Act</em>, passed in one US Senate committee but currently floating in legislative limbo, could actually make it into law. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081102_who_responsible_in_cloudy_world/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-02T10:05:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>policy_regulation</category><category>privacy</category><category>web_hosting</category>
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			<title>The Global Network Initiative</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After more than two years of work behind closed doors, the Global Network Initiative is launching this week. That's the corporate code of conduct on free speech and privacy I've been talking about in generalities for quite some time. By midnight Tuesday U.S. East Coast time, the full set of documents and list of initial signatories will be made publicly available at globalnetworkinitiative.org. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081028_global_network_initiative/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-28T16:20:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>censorship</category><category>internet_protocol</category><category>privacy</category>
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			<title>EFF Challenges Telecom Immunity Law in Court</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a law aimed at granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in President Bush's illegal domestic wiretapping program. In a brief filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, EFF argues that the flawed FISA Amendments Act (FAA) violates the federal government's separation of powers as established in the Constitution and robs innocent telecom customers of their rights without due process of law. Signed into law earlier this year, the FAA allows for the dismissal of the lawsuits over the telecoms' participation in the warrantless surveillance program if the government secretly certifies to the court that either the surveillance did not occur, was legal, or was authorized by the president. Attorney General Michael Mukasey filed that classified certification with the court last month. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_challenges_telecom_immunity/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-17T17:48:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>access_providers</category><category>law</category><category>privacy</category>
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			<title>China to Photograph Internet Cafe Customers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to the latest rules, all internet cafes in Beijing must install cameras to record the identities of their internet users, who must by law be 18 or over. There are more than 250 million internet users in China, approximately 10 times more than there were in 2000. By the end of the year, all of the city's 1,500 Internet cafés will be equipped with a camera and an ID card scanner. The cafes will be required to take photos and swipe the IDs of first-time visitors before they are allowed to surf the Internet. Once acquired, the information will be passed to Municipal Law Enforcement Agency of Beijing, which is in charge of the monitoring work. Repeat visitors would get a net café user number which they can input to log in the computer. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/china_camera_internet_cafe_customers/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-17T10:32:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>New DPI Technology Allows ISPs to Inspect Every File, Image, and Movie Transmitted by Users</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MSNBC reports that an Australian company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment Ltd., is marketing a new controversial deep packet inspection technology called CopyRouter in the U.S. cable of allowing ISPs to check every file passing through their network. More specifically, this technology can check "every image, every movie, every document attached to an email or found in a Web search," to see if it matches a list of illegal images from a law enforcement agency. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/dpi_copyrouter_isp_inspect_every_file/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-16T17:44:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>access_providers</category><category>broadband</category><category>censorship</category><category>p2p</category><category>privacy</category>
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			<title>U.S. Counterterrorism Data Mining Measures Questioned by New NRC Report</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An extensive report released today by The National Research Council (NRC), titled <em>"Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Assessment"</em>, examines the balance between security and privacy. According to the report, all U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data -- such as phone, medical, and travel records or websites visited -- should be required to systematically evaluate the programs' effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/counterterrorism_data_mining/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-07T14:59:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>policy_regulation</category><category>privacy</category><category>security</category>
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			<title>Time for Self Reflection</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In case you don't read any of what I have to say below, read this: I have dual citizenship. Along with my homeland citizenship, I am of the Internet, and see it as my personal duty to try and make the Internet safe. Atrivo (also known as Intercage), is a network known to host criminal activity for many years, is no more. Not being sarcastic for once, this is the time for some self reflection. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/time_for_self_reflection/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-05T10:12:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>privacy</category><category>security</category>
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