July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[p2p-hackers] Re: [trustcomp] Memory and reputation calculation
by Andrew Clausen 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:00:30PM +0000, Farez Rahman wrote: > Does anyone have any reference to work/paper which looked at how much > history is useful in reputation systems? Perhaps some analysis of > tradeoffs between size of memory and effective sample size? The first working paper on Chris Dellarocas' site claims that the history size doesn't matter: http://ccs.mit.edu/dell/reputation.html Cheers, Andrew ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/ngFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> _________ http://www.trustcomp.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trustcomp/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: trustcomp-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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[p2p-hackers] Re: [trustcomp] Memory and reputation calculation
by Andrew Clausen 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:00:30PM +0000, Farez Rahman wrote: > Does anyone have any reference to work/paper which looked at how much > history is useful in reputation systems? Perhaps some analysis of > tradeoffs between size of memory and effective sample size? The first working paper on Chris Dellarocas' site claims that the history size doesn't matter: http://ccs.mit.edu/dell/reputation.html Cheers, Andrew ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/ngFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> _________ http://www.trustcomp.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trustcomp/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: trustcomp-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Re: Some notes toward a fully distributed, serverless socnet/communications network using CouchDB.
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Now that Windbringer's been upgraded, I was able to install and run CouchDB. Which means that I've been hacking around. Take cover. Incoming JSON and incoherent rambling. couchdb listens on 127.0.0.1:5984 by default. Configure Tor to expose port 5984/tcp on <foo>.onion. Voila. creating new databases (even remotely) is as simple as making an HTTP request to localhost:5984 consisting of PUT http://localhost:5984/<database> Then documents can start being added to it. The array "acl" has a couple of default values. An an entry "all" mean that anyone can read and replicate it. "private" means that only the author is allowed to access it; an empty entry means the same thing. >From http://www.cmlenz.net/archives/2007/10/couchdb-joins Every post and comment is stored as a separate document with the same schema. The key "acl" is an array of usernames that are allowed to see the post. By extension, this is also the list of nodes that are allowed to replicate this document. The field "post" is an integer that increments with every blog post one makes. This field is used to tie together a post and all comments that are tied to it. The key "type" is the type of document, either "post" (a blog post) or "comment" (a comment on a blog post). database name: n25_blog_<username> blog schema: {_id: "autogenerated", _rev: "autogenerated, too", acl: ["all", ], author: "me", content: "Contents of my blog post", post: 0, title: "Frist psot!", type: "post", } Every bookmark one stores is kept as a separate document in a database. All have the same schema. The "acl" key works as defined earlier. Eventually, I'd like to make a JavaScript bookmarklet that makes it much easier to store a bookmark in this database. I'm not sure if bookmarks are going to be private only (i.e., personal) or database name: n25_bookmarks_<username> bookmarks schema: {{title: "", url: "", description: "", tags: ["", ], categories: ["", ], acl: ["all", ], date_added: ["YYYY/MM/DD", "HH:MM", "TZ"], date_modified: ["YYYY/MM/DD", "HH:MM", "TZ"], }, } Yes, I know that JSON documents aren't really schemas. I need to call them something, and I don't yet know the terminology ("layout" says HTML to me and not the format of the data in a document because it's not markup. Then again, I relate to device drivers better than I do websites.) database name: n25_profile_username profile schema (dumped from my CouchDB instance and reformatted for readability): { "_id": "<autogenerated>", "_rev": "<autogenerated>", "profile": "{"chosen_name": "Bryce A. Lynch", "aliases": ["Bryce", "The Doctor [412/724/301/703][ZS|Media]", ] gender: ["Androgynous", ], identification: "Organic sapient with semiautonomous software augmentations", location: "I am everywhere.", email_addresses: ["virtualadept(a)gmail.com", "bryce.lynch(a)zerostate.net", "bryce(a)somewhereelse.com", ], websites: ["https://drwho.virtadpt.net", ], IM: [{network: "gchat", protocol: "XMPP", handle: "virtualadept(a)gmail.com"}, {network: "Network25", protocol: "torchat", handle: "foo.onion"}, ], public_keys: [{"My PGP public key goes here"}], profile_address: ["something.onion", ], tor_sites: [""], bio: "This is where I write freeform stuff about myself.", interests: ["ad-hocracy", "anhedonia", "anonymity", "privacy", "assembly language", "blogging", "hacktivism", "tor", "python", "mesh networking", "couchdb", ], skillset: ["system administration", "system architecture", "information security", "security research", "mesh networking", "linux", "bsd", "software engineering", ], projects: [{name: "Project Byzantium", position: "core developer", website: "http://project-byzantium.org"}, {name: "Zero State: Media", position: "Project Manager", website: "http://zerostate.net/"}, ], affiliations: ["Project Byzantium", "Zero State", ], bitcoin_address: "blahblahblah", blog_db: "n25_blog_brycealynch", bookmarks_db: "n25_bookmarks_brycealynch", }, "friends": "{acl: ["all", ], friends: [{chosen_name: "Amon Zero", local_name: "Amon", profile_address: "something_else.onion"}, ] }", "cached_friend_profiles": "{}", // Note, these are duplicates of the profiles of everyone on this user's friends list. I'm not going to reproduce them here. "date_updated": ["2012/12/08", "18:19", "EST5EDT"], "groups": "[acl: ["all", ], {name: "Zero State General", description: "General Zero State discussion", database: "zerostategeneral", }, {name: "Network25 Updates", description: "Status and development reports for the Network25 package", database: "n25updates", }, {name: "", description: "", database: "", },]" } TODO: Finish adding ACLs to the profiles. Also, figure out how to write CouchDB design docs to make this information accessible without using Futon. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ZS-P2P" group. To post to this group, send email to zs-p2p(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to zs-p2p+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. 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[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN 30
by Patrick R McDonald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ===================================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 30, May 12, 2012 ===================================================== Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures; please take a `look`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news .. _look: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN30.html Announcement and News ===================== Happy Birthday to David-Sarah - ----------------------------- TWN wishes a happy belated birthday to David-Sarah |davidsarah|. David-Sarah is a core developer of Tahoe-LAFS and the current release manager. Hope you had a fantastic birthday. Thanks for all you have given Tahoe-LAFS. Multiple Introducers - -------------------- The removal of the introducer as `a single point of failure`_ is many steps closer to reality. Peter Le Bek |lebek| is in the process of restructuring the *IntroducerClient*. This will allow multi-introducer grids losing announcement deduplication logic in the client. You can look at his work `here`_. His work already passes all the current introducer units. He is still working implementing new tests specific to multiple introducers. .. _`a single point of failure`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/68 .. _`here`: https://github.com/lebek/tahoe-lafs/compare/master...68-multi-introducer Cryto Coding Collective Tahoe-LAFS Grid - --------------------------------------- The `Cryto Coding Collective`_ offers a Tahoe-LAFS grid for its members. Who is the Cryto Coding Collective you might ask? "The Cryto Coding Collective or 'CrytoCC' is a non-profit collective of independent developers and contributors that strive for real innovation. Unhindered by monetary incentive, arbitrary guidelines or authoritarian coordinators, it allows for an environment where real innovation takes place. Summary: An environment where you do not have to worry about money, infrastructure or other irrelevant things. All services are provided for free, so go crazy with your ideas!" [`0`_] The grid totals 27 nodes with 3.5TB for space. Also the grid hasn't experienced a second of downtime since its inceptions. The grid is available for contributors to CrytoCC and is free for non-project projects. They also maintain `some scripts`_ (tahoe.sh, url.py and gateway.py) to make working with their grid even easier. Please note, "CrytoCC is at this point not directly involved in the development of Tahoe-LAFS itself." [`0`_] .. _`Cryto Coding Collective`: http://www.cryto.net .. _`0`: http://www.cryto.net .. _`some scripts`: http://www.cryto.net/projects/tahoe.shtml Zooko's Klog is Back - -------------------- Zooko |zooko| announced his `klog`_ is back. It now is based on Least Authority Enterprise's (LAE) |LAE| TLoS3 service and uses lafs-rpg. lafs-rpg prevents klog readers from uploading data to his LAE account. .. _`klog`: https://lafsgateway.zooko.com/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:d73ap7mtjvv7y6qsmmwqwai4ii:tq… .. |LAE| image:: LAE.png :height: 35 :alt: Least Authority Enterprises :target: http://leastauthority.com Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter ===================== secure storage from a web app...it's snake oil unless you take a few cues from @zooko and Tahoe-LAFS. [`1`_] RT @KillYourTV_I2P #tahoe-lafs on @i2p is not just for \*NIX anymore. Installer for #Windows at http://killyourtv.i2p/tahoe-lafs/windows/ [`2`_] Special thanks to @catskillmarina for inspiring the latest feature of #TWN, Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter. [`3`_] Tahoe-lafs is about to consume the next several days/weeks. If at all interested in secure distributed computing I suggest a read up. [`4`_] .. _`1`: https://twitter.com/#!/sneakin/status/198474194068062209 .. _`2`: https://twitter.com/#!/zooko/status/198878423173701632 .. _`3`: https://twitter.com/#!/antagonismorg/status/199129670350938112 .. _`4`: https://twitter.com/#!/sj_mackenzie/status/200249583018852352 Patches Needing Review of the Week ================================== There is two (2) ticket still needing review for 1.9.2: * `#1636`_: Unhandled error in Deffered while uploading (curret darcs build * `#1115`_: add servers-of-happiness to reports (post-repair says 10 hosts have good shares but there only 4 hosts) There are four (4) tickets still needing review for 1.10: * `#1240`_: add functional test of ResponseCache * `#1161`_: improve new-downloader logging * `#443`_: set ETag on immutable directories, short-circuit on cache hit * `#1693`_: flogtool doesn't get automatically provided .. _`#1636`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1636 .. _`#1115`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1115 .. _`#1240`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1240 .. _`#1161`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1161 .. _`#1579`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1579 .. _`#443`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/443 .. _`#1566`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1566 .. _`#1693`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1693 - ---- *The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS* *Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor* |peter| *. Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald* |marlowe| *, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn* *, Editor: Zooko.* `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_ *. Send your news stories to* `marlowe(a)antagonism.org`_ *b submission deadline: Friday night.* .. _marlowe(a)antagonism.org: mailto:marlowe@antagonism.org .. |zooko| image:: zooko.png :height: 35 :alt: zooko :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |peter| image:: psecor.jpg :height: 35 :alt: peter :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |marlowe| image:: marlowe-x75-bw.jpg :height: 35 :alt: marlowe :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |davidsarah| image:: davidsarah_bw.png :height: 35 :alt: davidsarah :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wikiAboutUs .. |lebek| image:: lebek.jpg :height: 35 :alt: lebek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPrn1rAAoJEAT4nRyi0elyzqoQAK9vKtktNssIj56dtkBFGtsu 2tbQgMQPIjBPXtGYCKtN/T3+ZrOPHlPfyOCV+NhbibyHz6KviM3l6wjLizAa4uHL yo1QuXXNtGyJcEfF/ybbB9oLTVhXKyzF+AUorzPXgVpgQOBqlFaXsl3Jv7ezFo6L /XRUoox4JFHuzAclFHJgI8htjoq/XJh4bs+COEU35C/DU5a+8RdmYMXgekNyYhic k28gbChOUc1R4jaS5c1Gy9kIxt+trUMoV+abjsxWZ1JhZ2yOKs1hE1mdK/moXZiA eZLcAnxkFW6xrpAxl9E/D5wqSMb10/dfA+2CDQ886wu8VWy7E9j7NxddpclHkRkI 5sjdHghiV9Ho20AuTiQ10nUyb9jvl9UHlkd/kpZ/UBvKikYUkEYybrH+Nuge23QE /MGcVjRroEqGncd61iKwMnS7C481JJ2PFqndHHzQledmr6GGv5qmXGIcOvrbRKCk NC/Fm5DP3TiQWpwY5jtduQ6Ahs9MdcLmUuwILnr05zM29vWZtexLyAGxMRZRWVxH Ajw85TAQv+xraJWNejucPWPPz8dp2n057tcoftpHapD89NQ0NuRcq26TdwyOMhrc bUJ9xf+nfZLF6tX6Ko96TZkDuGx4KE0azpZLwytaChs47vU9OI5+Vk42bJLmAtFZ LbSvA/+Sg1UWLeOf0dwL =6sm3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tahoe-lafs-weekly-news mailing list tahoe-lafs-weekly-news(a)tahoe-lafs.org http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN 30
by Patrick R McDonald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ===================================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 30, May 12, 2012 ===================================================== Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures; please take a `look`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news .. _look: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN30.html Announcement and News ===================== Happy Birthday to David-Sarah - ----------------------------- TWN wishes a happy belated birthday to David-Sarah |davidsarah|. David-Sarah is a core developer of Tahoe-LAFS and the current release manager. Hope you had a fantastic birthday. Thanks for all you have given Tahoe-LAFS. Multiple Introducers - -------------------- The removal of the introducer as `a single point of failure`_ is many steps closer to reality. Peter Le Bek |lebek| is in the process of restructuring the *IntroducerClient*. This will allow multi-introducer grids losing announcement deduplication logic in the client. You can look at his work `here`_. His work already passes all the current introducer units. He is still working implementing new tests specific to multiple introducers. .. _`a single point of failure`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/68 .. _`here`: https://github.com/lebek/tahoe-lafs/compare/master...68-multi-introducer Cryto Coding Collective Tahoe-LAFS Grid - --------------------------------------- The `Cryto Coding Collective`_ offers a Tahoe-LAFS grid for its members. Who is the Cryto Coding Collective you might ask? "The Cryto Coding Collective or 'CrytoCC' is a non-profit collective of independent developers and contributors that strive for real innovation. Unhindered by monetary incentive, arbitrary guidelines or authoritarian coordinators, it allows for an environment where real innovation takes place. Summary: An environment where you do not have to worry about money, infrastructure or other irrelevant things. All services are provided for free, so go crazy with your ideas!" [`0`_] The grid totals 27 nodes with 3.5TB for space. Also the grid hasn't experienced a second of downtime since its inceptions. The grid is available for contributors to CrytoCC and is free for non-project projects. They also maintain `some scripts`_ (tahoe.sh, url.py and gateway.py) to make working with their grid even easier. Please note, "CrytoCC is at this point not directly involved in the development of Tahoe-LAFS itself." [`0`_] .. _`Cryto Coding Collective`: http://www.cryto.net .. _`0`: http://www.cryto.net .. _`some scripts`: http://www.cryto.net/projects/tahoe.shtml Zooko's Klog is Back - -------------------- Zooko |zooko| announced his `klog`_ is back. It now is based on Least Authority Enterprise's (LAE) |LAE| TLoS3 service and uses lafs-rpg. lafs-rpg prevents klog readers from uploading data to his LAE account. .. _`klog`: https://lafsgateway.zooko.com/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:d73ap7mtjvv7y6qsmmwqwai4ii:tq… .. |LAE| image:: LAE.png :height: 35 :alt: Least Authority Enterprises :target: http://leastauthority.com Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter ===================== secure storage from a web app...it's snake oil unless you take a few cues from @zooko and Tahoe-LAFS. [`1`_] RT @KillYourTV_I2P #tahoe-lafs on @i2p is not just for \*NIX anymore. Installer for #Windows at http://killyourtv.i2p/tahoe-lafs/windows/ [`2`_] Special thanks to @catskillmarina for inspiring the latest feature of #TWN, Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter. [`3`_] Tahoe-lafs is about to consume the next several days/weeks. If at all interested in secure distributed computing I suggest a read up. [`4`_] .. _`1`: https://twitter.com/#!/sneakin/status/198474194068062209 .. _`2`: https://twitter.com/#!/zooko/status/198878423173701632 .. _`3`: https://twitter.com/#!/antagonismorg/status/199129670350938112 .. _`4`: https://twitter.com/#!/sj_mackenzie/status/200249583018852352 Patches Needing Review of the Week ================================== There is two (2) ticket still needing review for 1.9.2: * `#1636`_: Unhandled error in Deffered while uploading (curret darcs build * `#1115`_: add servers-of-happiness to reports (post-repair says 10 hosts have good shares but there only 4 hosts) There are four (4) tickets still needing review for 1.10: * `#1240`_: add functional test of ResponseCache * `#1161`_: improve new-downloader logging * `#443`_: set ETag on immutable directories, short-circuit on cache hit * `#1693`_: flogtool doesn't get automatically provided .. _`#1636`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1636 .. _`#1115`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1115 .. _`#1240`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1240 .. _`#1161`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1161 .. _`#1579`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1579 .. _`#443`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/443 .. _`#1566`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1566 .. _`#1693`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1693 - ---- *The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS* *Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor* |peter| *. Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald* |marlowe| *, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn* *, Editor: Zooko.* `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_ *. 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[liberationtech] Comments from Chile
by radioactivity＠riseup.net 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

To the security community focused on helping social strugglers all over the world. First, thanks for all your efforts on building tools for human and social liberation, this is a feedback from Chile written as suggestion from some of you and we hope you enjoy. Several parts from this material wasn't taken in a legal way, I'm not going to offer any proofs about this as that can means tracking the people who helped to get this information, making them face jail charges and torture on interrogations. If you want to check if this statements are true, check the provided links and ask about this to people in Chile. Note: Even if we know your work is mostly focused on the middle east, several tools you have made had helped on simple daily stuff like privacy. We are not facing the same conditions or circunstances as some comrades in the middle east are. We are trying to created a new world away from capitalism values and with the total erradication of heriarchy. We assume an offensive step for this in everywhere, and you can judge as much as you want for this. On Agust 14th of 2010 several squats were raided. 14 comrades were put in prison for beeing anarchists and squatters, but facing charges of terrorism association. The police had been investigating for 4 years a serie of bomb explosions in Santiago, and decided that those 14 comrades were responsibles for that. When i said decided it's because several proofs were lies, some whitness were paid, but we only knew this in 2012, when the 14 were set free without charges. The man in charge of this operation is now a high range person in government, as a price for what hi did, but the State didn't thought every "proof" they had were going to fall after the truth about them were found. That was the context Some people (can be one, can be two, can be three, should be infinte) decided to check the facts of this. They got a copy of several investigation books and a list of more than 200 people beeing investigated. That list was published on Hommodolars website on May 2011 (http://www.hommodolars.org/web/spip.php?article4031) The list included several anarchists, native people supportes and media activists as people suspected for the explosions. All this people had their phones tapped for years, without any resistance for a telephone company, but all of them with a justice call. None of the phones were tapped on al illegal way for Chilean law, but the privacy of this 200 people was breached and none of them related to the explosions. The investigation books had inside several interesting stuff about the local police behavoir, but for you this in what you need to know: First ship of books (to 2010): - There were pretty close photographs of every investigated person. The books had more than 200 suspects. - There were transcripts of several phone conversations, also hotmail's menssenger chat. - There were screenshots taken from hotmail.com accounts from files obtained using Forensic Toolkit software, the bottom line of the files reveals those were temporary files. At least one person got this. - There were screenshots taken from hacked passwords from gmail.com accounts. At least 4 people got this. - There were several supperficial analysis of webservices and webpages: flickr.com, blogspot.com, entodaspartes.org, santiago.indymedia.org, valparaiso.indymedia.org, nodo50.org wordpress.com, indymedia.org, riseup.net. The data included physical location to html tags used, related names, and that kind of stuff. - There were examples of transcribed chats using OTR, and mails using PGP in ascii. They were not cracked. As the case was going to nowhere, the investigation continued. There are more than 400 persons in the investigation list. This is what was found. Current ship of books (to 2012): What is inside: - At least 4 crypto.cat chats were intercepted and transcribed. (Feb 2012) - More than 20 gmail.com accounts accessed. (2010-2012) - Several facebook.com account accesed, but most of the data transcribed. (2010-2012) - Several complaints against OTR and PGP on internal memos. They asked for help to FBI to break them, no more data about this. - Deeper investigation of websites, including visits by police to some people who work on alternative media projects. There is a strong analysis for riseup.net... from software used, location, email contacts, source code and groups that use them. What is not inside: - No mentions for tor, i2p or freenet. - No mentions for riseup.net hacked accounts. - No mentions how they got that data. But we can always ask the affected ones. The most interesting here for you is how they got access to crypto.cat chatlogs. That chats were taken from 7pm to 11pm on 4 different days. We don't know how they got them but we reducted the possibilities to two scenarios. The first one that a chilean computer got infected by some spyware, as they got confiscated (the raids continued until now, not yet to somebody related to the bombs case) we can no be sure about this. The second one is one that happened to a friendly italian project to chileans named Inventati in 2005. Chilean an Italian polices are working together on this and several cases, so that's a possibility, also we know that this web service is hosted in the US and the FBI is currently helping chile on investigation of activists and media projects online. That case is documented here http://www.inventati.org/ai/crackdown/ One of the clients of this chatlogs was an ubuntu 11.10, no issues on accepting a weird cert or notifications. The main browser was mozilla firefox, not using tor. The transcribed chat was recognized and didn't had any important information but organizing some activity to get funds for supporting political prisoners. This computer was part of only one of the chats. The other interesting stuff is, that even is very popular in activists circles (more than pgp, probably the same as otr), TOR is not mentioned at all. We don't know what this means, probably is just too new technology for here, but it noticeable. But i was not asked to write this just to let you notice what's wrong with gmail, hotmail and facebook, what's failing with crypto.cat and why is your work important for people in the south fighting for social justice. Yes, we can face defeats, but it really demoralizing to see 30 police officers breaking your home and exposing all your life just because your political and life position... all broadcasted by television. None of them was related to the bombs, none of us is related to the bombs, that's just an excuse to fuck our lives. We need you to keep working on this, and educate people everywhere. Our dictatorship ended in 1990, but before that the only way to survive as resistence was to share knowledge and practices, we need to keep that today. Thanks for your efforts, and sorry for my engrish. ps. I attached a official request of info from Chile to microsoft as a old non problematic (for any of us) proof. _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: Internet censorship
by Anonymous Remailer 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

2009/1/16 Eugen Leitl <eugen(a)leitl.org>: > With Internet snooping and censorship now in place in most countries, > what are you doing about it? > > Gone apathetic, moved on greener pastures? > > Enterprising squirrels want to know. [ Please forward if appropriate ] Maybe we need something like Echelon Day, but with the intent of overloading the Internet filters. A small script/program should do it - just a simple HEAD of websites on the filter list, maybe setting the user agent to something meaningful like 'NoCensorship2009!'. A HEAD will mean that we're not downloading actual content, but it would still be wise to ensure that URLs are not _illegal_, just blocked. (Obviously, this will depend on the filtering scheme in your part of the world.) This only addresses the technical side of things, the social/political bit is somewhat harder ... ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 8.1, 13 January 2010
by EDRI-gram newsletter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

============================================================ EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 8.1, 13 January 2010 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. Last nominations call for European Civil Society Data Protection Award 2. EDRi position on data protection 3. EU considers full body screening in airports 4. Protests in Bulgaria against eavesdropping and data retention law 5. Spanish Government proposes new legislation against file-sharing 6. An Irish law for a DNA database 7. France wants to tax search engines and ISPs for online advertising 8. Spain: NGO fined by the Supreme Court for hosting offensive contents 9. Hungary introduces mandatory open standards for public institutions 10. IP Chapter in the EU-Korea free trade agreement essentially flawed 11. Recommended Action 11. Recommended Reading 13. Agenda 14. About ============================================================ 1. Last nominations call for European Civil Society Data Protection Award ============================================================ AEDH (European Association for the Defence of Human rights) and EDRi (European Digital Rights) have launched the first edition of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award (ECSDPA). The prize aims at rewarding positive initiatives contributing to the visibility and effectiveness of the right to privacy and to the protection of personal data in Europe. The ECSDPA prize will be awarded each year on 28 January, as a European Civil Society contribution to the Data Protection Day. The deadline for submitting nominations is 15 January 2010. Nominations should be sent to: nominations at ecsdpa dot org. The award is open to all non-governmental organisations, trade unions, non-profit institutions and any other civil society actors from the 47 member States of the Council of Europe. The ECSDPA winner will benefit from a one week lobbying training in Brussels, travel expenses and lodging being fully covered. The ECSDPA initiative, the first of its kind, has been made possible thanks to the support of The Law Science Technology & Society Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS/VUB) and The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. Operational details about the prize, including application and selection procedures http://www.ecsdpa.org ============================================================ 2. EDRi position on data protection ============================================================ EDRi submitted a response to the consultation on the legal framework for the fundamental right to protection of personal data. The response, which was sent on 23 December, sets out the challenges to the existing data protection framework and offers recommendations to address these challenges. Among the challenges identified are the increasing amount of personal data being collected and processed, advanced profiling technologies becoming available and the shortcomings in terms of enforcement and independent oversight of the existing legal framework. EDRi recommends that the following measures are taken: - stronger principles ensuring data minimisation should be introduced; - the interpretation of the term "personal data" should be clarified; - administrative oversight and enforcement should be strengthened; - civil enforcement should be strengthened. EDRi's Response to the consultation of the European Commission on the legal framework for the fundamental right to protection of personal data (23.12.2009) http://www.edri.org/files/Response%20EDRi%20on%20personal%20data%20consulta… (contribution by Ot van Daalen - EDRi-member Bits of Freedom) ============================================================ 3. EU considers full body screening in airports ============================================================ On 7 January 2010, a discussion tool place in Brussels on the necessity of introducing full-body scanners in European airports. Some of the European countries such as Italy, UK and The Netherlands had already announced their intention to install such technology in their airports. The US is pressing Europe on taking such additional security measures following the reported attempt of a Nigerian man to blow up a U.S. airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on 2 January that full-body screening would be introduced in British airports along with other additional security measures. BAA, Britain's main airport operator has already ordered them for Heathrow airport . Heathrow and Manchester airports have had trials using such equipment. The introduction of full-body scanners might be in breach of child protection laws and privacy campaigners and civil liberties groups also argued the images created by the scanners were too graphic and called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers and to ensure that the images obtained would not end up on the Internet. On 2 January as well, the Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said in an interview to Corriere della Sera newspaper that he was in favour of a rapid introduction of the body scanners. "We have the resources ready to acquire them but we must overcome the opposition of European privacy agencies," said the minister. Wolfgang Bosbach, the head of the German parliament's Committee on Interior Affairs, also announced on 2 January that he expected the body-scanners to be introduced in the current year adding that the tests would probably start in the next 6 months. However, Klaus Jansen of professional police association Bundes Deutscher Kriminalbeamter warned against over-confidence related to the scanners and Petra Pau of the Left party also called the scanners a "security mirage" which bring forth health, practical, and ethical issues. "A minimum wage for security services would be a lot more effective than state-ordained peep-shows," she said in a statement. The Dutch government also stated it would immediately begin using full body scanners on flights to the United States in order to avoid such incidents as the one on Christmas Day. During the meeting on 7 January in Brussels, not all European countries were in favour of introducing the technology. Spain expressed scepticism about the need for body scanners, and the German and French governments still preserve some reservations. Etiennne Schouppe, the Belgium Secretary of State for transport considered that such measures were excessive and that the present security measures were strict enough. She also agreed on the necessity of having a united approach of the European countries in the matter as expressed by Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice President: "We have to reach agreement together with the (European) parliament and member states. It's best to have a European solution than having individual member states deciding on their own." Privacy advocates and experts have shown concern related to the technical effectiveness of body scanners. "Any security expert knows this is a red herring, a diversion from the real issue," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International who added: "The biggest failure in this case was a failure of intelligence. That's the Achilles heel of an effective counterterrorism strategy." Privacy International (PI), while not against security measures that would really enhance passengers' protection, is concerned by the introduction of unproven or intrusive technology and measures. The body scanners tested at Heathrow airport over four years have resulted in a decision to interrupt the scanner use. In PI opinion, there are several concerning issues related to the body scanners. They produce too graphic images of the passengers' bodies revealing intimate medical details. The organization is also sceptical regarding the privacy safeguards applied by the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) in relation to the scanned images. The main issue is the effectiveness of the technology. "Our impression is that a very high percentage of the passengers who opt for a scan will still wind up being physically searched because officials will have trouble distinguishing threatening objects from ordinary ones such as a wallet" says PI. The scanners have not yet proven effective in case of liquid explosives and cannot detect explosives hidden in body cavities. Full-body scanners being ordered for airports, says Gordon Brown (3.01.2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/gordon-brown-airport-body-scann… New scanners break child porn laws (4.01.2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws Italy aims to introduce body scanners: minister (2.01.2010) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6010GK20100102 Body scanners to come sooner than expected (3.01.2010) http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100103-24323.html Dutch to use full body scanners for US flights (30.12.2009) http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/30/general-us-airliner-attack_724264… Europe anxious about body scanner privacy (5.01.2010) http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/attacks-aviation.254/ Europe Divided on Use of Body Scanners in Airports (7.01.2010) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582386,00.html PI statement on proposed deployments of body scanners in airports (31.12.2009) http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-565802 EDRI- gram: The European Parliament says no to airport body scanners (5.11.2008) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.21/meps-against-virtual-strip-search ============================================================ 4. Protests in Bulgaria against eavesdropping and data retention law ============================================================ A protest will take place in Bulgaria on 14 January 2010 in front of the Parliament against the data retention law that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry keeps on pushing ahead with obstinacy. On 10 December 2009, the Parliamentary Committee on internal security and public order approved, behind closed doors, the amendments proposed by the Interior Ministry to the Electronic Communications Act (ECA) and on 22 December 2009 the amendments were passed in first reading in an emergency meeting by the Parliament despite the large public and media opposition. The proposed amendments contain provisions that allow the Ministry of Interior and other agencies to permanently monitor, without control, the behaviour, movement and other information on any Bulgarian citizen, whether guilty of a crime or not. These provisions breach the innocence presumption principle stipulated by the Constitution as well as human rights European legislation. Thus, the Ministry of Interior will have access to the data for the calls and the mobile devices of every citizen through a direct interface. Although a court order is required in order to obtain access, there is no obligation to provide a reason for the access. Through the interface, the agencies have direct and untraceable access to the general national database of all telecom records. One of the main provisions is that traffic data should be retained for crimes sanctioned with more than 2 years of imprisonment. These traffic data can be used also in relation to computer crimes, which might, in the near future, include the still vague notion of computer piracy. Even the Ministry of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov accepted that: "There is no other European Union member state that provides such access to its police force, it violates article 8 of the European Convention for Human Rights, as well as the Bulgarian constitution" andalso admitted: " under the current proposal, citizens have no right to request information about whether or not their communication data has been subject to investigation." EDRi-member Bulgarian Internet Society head Veni Markovski criticized the amendments, warning about the lack of control over the bodies that will have access to the retained data. "Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said they are looking to use court approval before using retained data, but the problem is the police will have constant access, without the knowledge of the service provider, to the data that goes through their system. In other words, if they want to use this in court they will get permission from the court. But if they want to use it for something else, be it control, blackmailing, economic interests, they don't need the court's permission," said Veni. An official protest letter was publicly drafted and discussed online and posted to the Facebook group "We do not want the Interior Ministry to eavesdrop on us online without control." The eyes have it (18.12.2009) http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/12/18/831890_the-eyes-have-it Bulgaria is not Big Brother, 2010 is not 1984 (7.01.2010) http://bogomil.blogactiv.eu/2010/01/07/bulgaria-is-not-big-brother-2010-is-… Electronic Communication Act amendments for first reading in Parliament (22.12.2009) http://sofiaecho.com/2009/12/22/834248_electronic-communication-act-amendme… I would not mind others reading my email - Speaker of Parliament (6.01.2010) http://sofiaecho.com/2010/01/06/838401_i-would-not-mind-others-reading-my-e… ============================================================ 5. Spanish Government proposes new legislation against file-sharing ============================================================ The Spanish Government passed on 8 January 2010 the Law for Sustainable Economy which includes the creation of an Intellectual Property Commission (IPC) that will be in charge with filing complaints with a judge in cases of alleged illegal downloading. The legislation will give the authorities the possibility to shut down file-sharing sites within a few days from the complained filed by IPC. The court is to decide within four days from the complaint whether a certain site is infringing the law or not. Until now the procedure to shut down sites considered in breach of copyright law lasted for more than a year. The legislation has met serious criticism and opposition lately from the public and freedom activists. In a Manifesto on the rights of Internet users at the beginning of December 2009, a group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators stated that: "Copyright should not be placed above citizens' fundamental rights to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression." Many of the opponents believe the legislation was forced by a strong lobby from the entertainment industry and the pressure from the US, without real consideration of the implications and impact on the Internet users. The only good change in the new legislation is that the sites cannot be shut down without a judicial decision as it was initially proposed. On 9 January a group of activists, experts and bloggers met in Madrid to discuss the action to be taken in order to defend civil rights on the Internet. It has been decided that organisation of a larger campaign under a new alliance to defenet Internet liberties called Red Sostenible that was launched on 13 January 2010. The new plan of the Government against P2P "doesn't wash" (only in Spanish, 4.01.2010) http://www.publico.es/ciencias/283018/nuevo/plan/gobierno/p/p/cuela Spain Fast Tracks P2P Site Shutdowns (8.01.2010) http://torrentfreak.com/spain-fast-tracks-p2p-site-shutdowns-100108/ Spain passes anti-piracy law (8.01.2010) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3if944e88734… Campaign Red Sostenible (13.01.2010) http://red-sostenible.net Government rectification does not please the Red activists (only in Spanish, 13.01.2010) http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/01/12/navegante/1263299629.html ============================================================ 6. An Irish law for a DNA database ============================================================ The Irish Government has announced that it will publish legislation this week to set up a national DNA database. The Bill follows a 2005 Report of the Law Reform Commission on Establishment of a DNA Database but was delayed by the European Court of Human Rights action in S and Marper vs. the United Kingdom and has since been revised in light of that case. The legislation proposes to allow Gardam (Police) to forcibly take samples (such as hair, saliva, nail clippings or blood) from those suspected of committing a criminal offence carrying a possible sentence of five years imprisonment or more. Samples will be stored indefinitely where suspects are convicted; where persons are acquitted or released without charge they will still be retained for a three year period. 4.1 million euros has been allocated for the start-up costs associated with the database in 2010. In 2007, the Irish Human Rights Commission was critical of a previous draft of the legislation. Until the full Bill is published it is unclear to what extent it will address these concerns. In a separate development, it has emerged that a Dublin children's hospital has been holding DNA records of almost every person born in Ireland since 1984 without consent. The Temple Street Children's Hospital has acted as a national centre for "heel prick tests" which involve the taking of a blood sample from each newborn child and using that sample to screen for disease. However, the hospital does not destroy those samples when screening is complete but instead retains those samples indefinitely, linked to the individual. There are approximately 1.54 million samples held on this database, which would include the overwhelming majority of Irish people aged 25 or younger. The hospital is currently under investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner who may order the destruction of these samples. Law Reform Commission, Report on the Establishment of a DNA Database (11.2005) http://www.lawreform.ie/DNA%20Database%20Report%20No1.pdf Irish Human Rights Commission, Safeguards in DNA Database Scheme of Bill 'Inadequate' (8.08.2007) http://www.ihrc.ie/press_releases/newsarticle.asp?NID=215&NCID=12&T=N Connolly, Suspects forced to give DNA samples under new legislation (20.12.2009) http://www.sbpost.ie/news/suspects-forced-to-give-dna-samples-under-new-leg… Connolly, New DNA Bill faces opposition (20.12.2009) http://www.sbpost.ie/news/ireland/new-dna-bill-faces-opposition-46369.html Dail debates (10.12.2009) http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-12-10.551.0 Tighe, Hospital keeps secret DNA file (27.12.2009) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6968561.ece Tighe, Records stolen from hospital that held secret DNA database (10.01.2010) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6982446.ece (Contribution by TJ McIntyre - EDRi-member Digital Rights Ireland) ============================================================ 7. France wants to tax search engines and ISPs for online advertising ============================================================ A report commissioned by the French culture ministry issued on 6 January 2010 proposes a tax on online advertising in order to support the production of music, films and journalism in the digital age. France is not at the first attempt to tax online advertising. In 2009, after banning advertising on public TV channels, the government proposed a tax on ISPs, mobile operators and commercial TV broadcasters to help fund public television. The new document, called the Zelnik report (after the its author's name), includes 22 measures intended to improve the sale of online content. Among these measures, the report proposes the introduction of a so-called "Google tax" of 1% to 2% applied on the revenues obtained by search engines and portals from online advertising. The search engines would be taxed every time an ad or sponsored link is clicked in France, irrespective of the origin of that advertisement, and the ISPs would be taxed based on their traffic. Another proposal of the report is the introduction of a music voucher system for young people between 15 and 24 with cards allowing them to buy tracks and albums at a 50% discount, covered 20% by the government and 30% by the record companies. Similar systems could be developed for films by means of subsidised subscriptions for videos and digital books as well. According to another recommendation of the Zelnik report, a licence should be bought by music and video streaming sites such as YouTube and Daily Motion in order to allow unlimited access to their content. While the entertainment industry welcomed the document, Google France has tried to underline that the cultural producers should make efforts to develop new business models that might be more efficient than depending on taxation for support. "There is an opportunity here to promote innovative solutions, rather than extending the attitude of opposition between the internet world and the cultural world, for example through the approach of taxation," said Google France spokesman Olivier Esper. The report is now under consideration by the Culture Ministry. Google and "music card", Sarkozy validates most of the propositions of Zelnik mission (only in French, 7.01.2010) http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2010/01/07/google-dans-le-colima… France considers tax on search engines (8.01.2010) http://euobserver.com/9/29228 Sacre Bleu! France Mulls Tax On Web Ads To Bail Out Old Media (7.01.2010) http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-sacre-bleu-france-mulls-tax-on-web-ads… ============================================================ 8. Spain: NGO fined by the Supreme Court for hosting offensive contents ============================================================ At the end of December 2009, the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed its ruling in making Asociacisn de Internautas (Internet Users Association - AI) pay a 18 000 Euro fine to SGAE (the General Society of Authors and Editors) for having hosted sites such as putasgae.org and antisgae.internaturas.org which included offences to SGAE. The case was introduced by SGAE in March 2004 which stated that the website of AI was hosting webpages with the addresses mentioned above, which contained expressions like "hired gun", "mob gang", "fucking pickpockets". On 6 February 2006, the National High Court in Madrid sentenced AI to pay 18 000 euros to the authors society and ordered the removal of the websites and the offensive contents. The association was also to publish the content of the ruling on its website. AI appealed to the Supreme Court and denied any responsibility related to the offensive contents of the respective websites and used the freedom of expression as argument. The association stated that it had nothing to do with the creation of the respective contents and that it was unaware of the offences brought to SAGE through them. The court considered that AI was guilty as owners of the sub-domain antisgae.internautas.org. However, the usage was ceded to third parties which were managing autonomously and technically controlling the sub-domain. Therefore AI was only acting as a hosting service provider fact which was accepted by the court. According to the Spanish law the AI as a hosting provider should have not been considered responsible for the hosted content as long as they were unaware of any offensive content. The High Court however rejected the appeal considering the argument was irrelevant as the names of the pages were considered relevant enough by themselves and ruled that AI had breached the right of honour of SGAE. The Association must actually pay another 18 000 euro to the president of SAGE Teddy Bautista. We have lost PUTASGAE case (in Spanish, 22.12.2009) http://www.internautas.org/html/5906.html "PUTASGAE": One more door towards the legal insecurity and the culpability presumption on the Internet (only in Spanish, 27.12.2009) http://www.internautas.org/html/5906.html The Supreme Court ratifies the fine of 36,000 euros to AI for hosting putasgae.org (only in Spanish, 22.12.2009) http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Supremo/ratifica/condena/36000/eu… ============================================================ 9. Hungary introduces mandatory open standards for public institutions ============================================================ The Hungarian Parliament decided at the end of 2009 to make open standards mandatory for communications between public institutions, utility companies and citizens through the central governmental system. The Parliament amended Act LX of 2009 on electronic public services. The amendment was initiated by Hungarian NGO The Open Standards Alliance with the purpose to promote monopoly-free markets and the development of interchangeable and interoperable products generated by open standards. The standards used need to be publicly accessible, free of charge, royalty free without restrictions, and neutral from the competition point of view thus allowing for real interoperability. The Open Standards Alliance intends to further cooperate with the government and, in this sense, it will initiate the collaboration between governmental representatives, public utility companies and consumer protection organisations. The alliance also intends to promote interoperability based on publicly defined open standards to become a EU norm during the Hungarian EU presidency in 2011 and, to this purpose, it will initiate public collaboration between all civil and public interested parties within the EU. Mandatory Use of Open Standards In Hungary (18.12.2009) http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/18/2123215/Mandatory-Use-of-Open-Standa… 10 points on the mandatory use of open standards in Hungary (17.12.2009) http://nyissz.hu/blog/10-points-on-the-mandatory-use-of-open-standards-in-h… ============================================================ 10. IP Chapter in the EU-Korea free trade agreement essentially flawed ============================================================ The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) calls upon the EU Parliament and member states to remove the intellectual property rights chapter from the EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement. According to the FFII analysis, the free trade agreement is a threat to software companies, companies that use software, and free software projects; this undermines innovation, competitiveness and legal certainty. In October 2009, after more than two years of secret negotiations, the EU and the Republic of Korea initialled their free trade agreement. The agreement awaits ratification by the EU Parliament and member states. The free trade agreement contains strong measures against patent infringements. It provides injunctions, high damages, seizures, destruction of production materials and removal of online software repositories. A suspicion may be enough for seizures and injunctions. An allegation may be enough to freeze assets. FFII analyst Ante Wessels comments: "These strong measures may be justified against hard core counterfeiters. They are not justified against software developers. Software patents are so broad in scope, doubtful in validity, and so numerous that unintentional infringement is unavoidable in the normal course of business. Therefore, competitors and patent trolls can always find a stick to hit software companies, companies that use software and free software projects. The whole sector is at risk." The free trade agreement also contains border measures against patent infringements. Ante Wessels: "With the numerous software patents out there, all software products and all products containing software may infringe patents. An allegation is enough to have them seized at the border. Then they stay seized until a civil court case made clear whether a patent was infringed or not. This gives competitors and patent trolls enormous power - how many small and medium enterprises, and free software projects, have the money to defend against this? It is the contrary of stimulating free trade." The free trade agreement is based on existing EU legislation. "Exporting EU- style enforcement legislation to foreign trading partners is an (un)official goal of EU policy", professor Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute Munich, remarked in a presentation in December. She added: "If and where legislation is (partly) flawed, export is no recommendable option." The severe consequences of flawed enforcement legislation were on display in the recent EU seizures of life saving medicine meant for developing countries. After these seizures have became known, the Dutch Minister for Developmental Aid, Bert Koenders, said that he wanted to change the EU rules on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, and that he would even like to violate these rules. Ante Wessels commented: "The seizures of life saving medicine and the treatment of software developers as hard core counterfeiters are two consequences of flawed EU legislation. Europe should be well aware that if we export this flawed legislation, the agreement will be binding. We will not be able to repair our own legislation anymore." EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement (15.10.2009) http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=443 FFII analysis (7.01.2010) http://action.ffii.org/acta/korea Presentation professor Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute Munich (18.12.2009) http://www.se2009.eu/polopoly_fs/1.28342!menu/standard/file/Kur%2C%20Max%20… EU seizures of life saving medicine meant for developing countries (5.06.2009) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/05/drug-seizures-in-frankfurt-spark-… Dutch Minister for Developmental Aid, Bert Koenders (25.06.2009) http://www.idafoundation.org/we-inform/news/single-news/news/response-mr-ko… EDRi-gram: Secret IPR measures in EU - South Korea trade agreement (23.09.2009) http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.18/ipr-eu-south-korea (Thanks to Ante Wessels - FFII) ============================================================ 11. Recommended Action ============================================================ Stop Digital Strip Search in airports JOIN - Facebook Group: Stop Airport Strip Searches http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=179598280013&ref=mf ENDORSE - Privacy Coalition: Sign the Petition to the US Congress http://privacycoalition.org/stopwholebodyimaging/ ENDORSE: Madrid Privacy Declaration http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/ SIGN - International Boycott of Body Scanners (IBBS) http://www.petitiononline.com/IBBS/petition.html SIGN - UK Petition to abandon the proposed rollout of airport body scanners. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AirportScanners/ ============================================================ 12. Recommended Reading ============================================================ Public Domain Day - 1 January http://www.publicdomainday.org Creative Commons and Related Rights in Sound Recordings: Are the Two Systems Compatible? http://www.ivir.nl/publications/angelopoulos/Creative_Commons_and_Sound_Rec… Europe's dysfunctional private copying levy to remain http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/europes-dysfunctional-priva… ============================================================ 13. Agenda ============================================================ 20-22 January 2010, Namur, Belgium The Conference for the 30th Anniversary of the CRID - An Information Society for All : A Legal Challenge http://www.crid.be/30years/ 29-30 January 2009, Turin, Italy "Cultural Commons" - First International Workshop http://www.css-ebla.it/css/ 29-30 January 2009, Brussels, Belgium Third edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection - CPDP 2010 - An Element of Choice http://www.cpdpconferences.org/ 5 February 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2010 https://www.bof.nl/2009/12/08/geef-kandidaten-op-voor-de-big-brother-awards… 6-7 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 2010 http://www.fosdem.org/2010/ 14-16 April 2010, Berlin, Germany re:publica'10 - Conference about blogs, social media and the digital society Call for Proposals deadline: 31 January 2010. http://www.re-publica.de/10 24 April 2010, London, United Kingdom Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010 Call for Proposals deadline: 31 January 2010. http://www.okfn.org/okcon/ 29-30 April 2010 EuroDIG 2010 http://www.eurodig.org/ 26-28 May 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands World Congress on Information Technology http://www.wcit2010.com/ 9-11 July 2010, Gdansk, Poland Wikimedia 2010 - the 6th annual Wikimedia Conference http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010 25-27 June 2010, Cluj, Romania Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/ 13-17 September 2010, Crete, Greece Privacy and Security in the Future Internet 3rd Network and Information Security (NIS'10) Summer School http://www.nis-summer-school.eu ============================================================ 14. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 27 members based or with offices in 17 different countries in Europe. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge and awareness through the EDRI-grams. All contributions, suggestions for content, corrections or agenda-tips are most welcome. Errors are corrected as soon as possible and visibly on the EDRI website. Except where otherwise noted, this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. 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Re: Internet censorship
by Anonymous Remailer 06 Jul '18

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2009/1/16 Eugen Leitl <eugen(a)leitl.org>: > With Internet snooping and censorship now in place in most countries, > what are you doing about it? > > Gone apathetic, moved on greener pastures? > > Enterprising squirrels want to know. [ Please forward if appropriate ] Maybe we need something like Echelon Day, but with the intent of overloading the Internet filters. A small script/program should do it - just a simple HEAD of websites on the filter list, maybe setting the user agent to something meaningful like 'NoCensorship2009!'. A HEAD will mean that we're not downloading actual content, but it would still be wise to ensure that URLs are not _illegal_, just blocked. (Obviously, this will depend on the filtering scheme in your part of the world.) This only addresses the technical side of things, the social/political bit is somewhat harder ... ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 8.1, 13 January 2010
by EDRI-gram newsletter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

============================================================ EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 8.1, 13 January 2010 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. Last nominations call for European Civil Society Data Protection Award 2. EDRi position on data protection 3. EU considers full body screening in airports 4. Protests in Bulgaria against eavesdropping and data retention law 5. Spanish Government proposes new legislation against file-sharing 6. An Irish law for a DNA database 7. France wants to tax search engines and ISPs for online advertising 8. Spain: NGO fined by the Supreme Court for hosting offensive contents 9. Hungary introduces mandatory open standards for public institutions 10. IP Chapter in the EU-Korea free trade agreement essentially flawed 11. Recommended Action 11. Recommended Reading 13. Agenda 14. About ============================================================ 1. Last nominations call for European Civil Society Data Protection Award ============================================================ AEDH (European Association for the Defence of Human rights) and EDRi (European Digital Rights) have launched the first edition of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award (ECSDPA). The prize aims at rewarding positive initiatives contributing to the visibility and effectiveness of the right to privacy and to the protection of personal data in Europe. The ECSDPA prize will be awarded each year on 28 January, as a European Civil Society contribution to the Data Protection Day. The deadline for submitting nominations is 15 January 2010. Nominations should be sent to: nominations at ecsdpa dot org. The award is open to all non-governmental organisations, trade unions, non-profit institutions and any other civil society actors from the 47 member States of the Council of Europe. The ECSDPA winner will benefit from a one week lobbying training in Brussels, travel expenses and lodging being fully covered. The ECSDPA initiative, the first of its kind, has been made possible thanks to the support of The Law Science Technology & Society Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS/VUB) and The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. Operational details about the prize, including application and selection procedures http://www.ecsdpa.org ============================================================ 2. EDRi position on data protection ============================================================ EDRi submitted a response to the consultation on the legal framework for the fundamental right to protection of personal data. The response, which was sent on 23 December, sets out the challenges to the existing data protection framework and offers recommendations to address these challenges. Among the challenges identified are the increasing amount of personal data being collected and processed, advanced profiling technologies becoming available and the shortcomings in terms of enforcement and independent oversight of the existing legal framework. EDRi recommends that the following measures are taken: - stronger principles ensuring data minimisation should be introduced; - the interpretation of the term "personal data" should be clarified; - administrative oversight and enforcement should be strengthened; - civil enforcement should be strengthened. EDRi's Response to the consultation of the European Commission on the legal framework for the fundamental right to protection of personal data (23.12.2009) http://www.edri.org/files/Response%20EDRi%20on%20personal%20data%20consulta… (contribution by Ot van Daalen - EDRi-member Bits of Freedom) ============================================================ 3. EU considers full body screening in airports ============================================================ On 7 January 2010, a discussion tool place in Brussels on the necessity of introducing full-body scanners in European airports. Some of the European countries such as Italy, UK and The Netherlands had already announced their intention to install such technology in their airports. The US is pressing Europe on taking such additional security measures following the reported attempt of a Nigerian man to blow up a U.S. airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on 2 January that full-body screening would be introduced in British airports along with other additional security measures. BAA, Britain's main airport operator has already ordered them for Heathrow airport . Heathrow and Manchester airports have had trials using such equipment. The introduction of full-body scanners might be in breach of child protection laws and privacy campaigners and civil liberties groups also argued the images created by the scanners were too graphic and called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers and to ensure that the images obtained would not end up on the Internet. On 2 January as well, the Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said in an interview to Corriere della Sera newspaper that he was in favour of a rapid introduction of the body scanners. "We have the resources ready to acquire them but we must overcome the opposition of European privacy agencies," said the minister. Wolfgang Bosbach, the head of the German parliament's Committee on Interior Affairs, also announced on 2 January that he expected the body-scanners to be introduced in the current year adding that the tests would probably start in the next 6 months. However, Klaus Jansen of professional police association Bundes Deutscher Kriminalbeamter warned against over-confidence related to the scanners and Petra Pau of the Left party also called the scanners a "security mirage" which bring forth health, practical, and ethical issues. "A minimum wage for security services would be a lot more effective than state-ordained peep-shows," she said in a statement. The Dutch government also stated it would immediately begin using full body scanners on flights to the United States in order to avoid such incidents as the one on Christmas Day. During the meeting on 7 January in Brussels, not all European countries were in favour of introducing the technology. Spain expressed scepticism about the need for body scanners, and the German and French governments still preserve some reservations. Etiennne Schouppe, the Belgium Secretary of State for transport considered that such measures were excessive and that the present security measures were strict enough. She also agreed on the necessity of having a united approach of the European countries in the matter as expressed by Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice President: "We have to reach agreement together with the (European) parliament and member states. It's best to have a European solution than having individual member states deciding on their own." Privacy advocates and experts have shown concern related to the technical effectiveness of body scanners. "Any security expert knows this is a red herring, a diversion from the real issue," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International who added: "The biggest failure in this case was a failure of intelligence. That's the Achilles heel of an effective counterterrorism strategy." Privacy International (PI), while not against security measures that would really enhance passengers' protection, is concerned by the introduction of unproven or intrusive technology and measures. The body scanners tested at Heathrow airport over four years have resulted in a decision to interrupt the scanner use. In PI opinion, there are several concerning issues related to the body scanners. They produce too graphic images of the passengers' bodies revealing intimate medical details. The organization is also sceptical regarding the privacy safeguards applied by the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) in relation to the scanned images. The main issue is the effectiveness of the technology. "Our impression is that a very high percentage of the passengers who opt for a scan will still wind up being physically searched because officials will have trouble distinguishing threatening objects from ordinary ones such as a wallet" says PI. The scanners have not yet proven effective in case of liquid explosives and cannot detect explosives hidden in body cavities. Full-body scanners being ordered for airports, says Gordon Brown (3.01.2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/gordon-brown-airport-body-scann… New scanners break child porn laws (4.01.2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws Italy aims to introduce body scanners: minister (2.01.2010) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6010GK20100102 Body scanners to come sooner than expected (3.01.2010) http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100103-24323.html Dutch to use full body scanners for US flights (30.12.2009) http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/30/general-us-airliner-attack_724264… Europe anxious about body scanner privacy (5.01.2010) http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/attacks-aviation.254/ Europe Divided on Use of Body Scanners in Airports (7.01.2010) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582386,00.html PI statement on proposed deployments of body scanners in airports (31.12.2009) http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-565802 EDRI- gram: The European Parliament says no to airport body scanners (5.11.2008) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.21/meps-against-virtual-strip-search ============================================================ 4. Protests in Bulgaria against eavesdropping and data retention law ============================================================ A protest will take place in Bulgaria on 14 January 2010 in front of the Parliament against the data retention law that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry keeps on pushing ahead with obstinacy. On 10 December 2009, the Parliamentary Committee on internal security and public order approved, behind closed doors, the amendments proposed by the Interior Ministry to the Electronic Communications Act (ECA) and on 22 December 2009 the amendments were passed in first reading in an emergency meeting by the Parliament despite the large public and media opposition. The proposed amendments contain provisions that allow the Ministry of Interior and other agencies to permanently monitor, without control, the behaviour, movement and other information on any Bulgarian citizen, whether guilty of a crime or not. These provisions breach the innocence presumption principle stipulated by the Constitution as well as human rights European legislation. Thus, the Ministry of Interior will have access to the data for the calls and the mobile devices of every citizen through a direct interface. Although a court order is required in order to obtain access, there is no obligation to provide a reason for the access. Through the interface, the agencies have direct and untraceable access to the general national database of all telecom records. One of the main provisions is that traffic data should be retained for crimes sanctioned with more than 2 years of imprisonment. These traffic data can be used also in relation to computer crimes, which might, in the near future, include the still vague notion of computer piracy. Even the Ministry of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov accepted that: "There is no other European Union member state that provides such access to its police force, it violates article 8 of the European Convention for Human Rights, as well as the Bulgarian constitution" andalso admitted: " under the current proposal, citizens have no right to request information about whether or not their communication data has been subject to investigation." EDRi-member Bulgarian Internet Society head Veni Markovski criticized the amendments, warning about the lack of control over the bodies that will have access to the retained data. "Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said they are looking to use court approval before using retained data, but the problem is the police will have constant access, without the knowledge of the service provider, to the data that goes through their system. In other words, if they want to use this in court they will get permission from the court. But if they want to use it for something else, be it control, blackmailing, economic interests, they don't need the court's permission," said Veni. An official protest letter was publicly drafted and discussed online and posted to the Facebook group "We do not want the Interior Ministry to eavesdrop on us online without control." The eyes have it (18.12.2009) http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/12/18/831890_the-eyes-have-it Bulgaria is not Big Brother, 2010 is not 1984 (7.01.2010) http://bogomil.blogactiv.eu/2010/01/07/bulgaria-is-not-big-brother-2010-is-… Electronic Communication Act amendments for first reading in Parliament (22.12.2009) http://sofiaecho.com/2009/12/22/834248_electronic-communication-act-amendme… I would not mind others reading my email - Speaker of Parliament (6.01.2010) http://sofiaecho.com/2010/01/06/838401_i-would-not-mind-others-reading-my-e… ============================================================ 5. Spanish Government proposes new legislation against file-sharing ============================================================ The Spanish Government passed on 8 January 2010 the Law for Sustainable Economy which includes the creation of an Intellectual Property Commission (IPC) that will be in charge with filing complaints with a judge in cases of alleged illegal downloading. The legislation will give the authorities the possibility to shut down file-sharing sites within a few days from the complained filed by IPC. The court is to decide within four days from the complaint whether a certain site is infringing the law or not. Until now the procedure to shut down sites considered in breach of copyright law lasted for more than a year. The legislation has met serious criticism and opposition lately from the public and freedom activists. In a Manifesto on the rights of Internet users at the beginning of December 2009, a group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators stated that: "Copyright should not be placed above citizens' fundamental rights to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression." Many of the opponents believe the legislation was forced by a strong lobby from the entertainment industry and the pressure from the US, without real consideration of the implications and impact on the Internet users. The only good change in the new legislation is that the sites cannot be shut down without a judicial decision as it was initially proposed. On 9 January a group of activists, experts and bloggers met in Madrid to discuss the action to be taken in order to defend civil rights on the Internet. It has been decided that organisation of a larger campaign under a new alliance to defenet Internet liberties called Red Sostenible that was launched on 13 January 2010. The new plan of the Government against P2P "doesn't wash" (only in Spanish, 4.01.2010) http://www.publico.es/ciencias/283018/nuevo/plan/gobierno/p/p/cuela Spain Fast Tracks P2P Site Shutdowns (8.01.2010) http://torrentfreak.com/spain-fast-tracks-p2p-site-shutdowns-100108/ Spain passes anti-piracy law (8.01.2010) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3if944e88734… Campaign Red Sostenible (13.01.2010) http://red-sostenible.net Government rectification does not please the Red activists (only in Spanish, 13.01.2010) http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/01/12/navegante/1263299629.html ============================================================ 6. An Irish law for a DNA database ============================================================ The Irish Government has announced that it will publish legislation this week to set up a national DNA database. The Bill follows a 2005 Report of the Law Reform Commission on Establishment of a DNA Database but was delayed by the European Court of Human Rights action in S and Marper vs. the United Kingdom and has since been revised in light of that case. The legislation proposes to allow Gardam (Police) to forcibly take samples (such as hair, saliva, nail clippings or blood) from those suspected of committing a criminal offence carrying a possible sentence of five years imprisonment or more. Samples will be stored indefinitely where suspects are convicted; where persons are acquitted or released without charge they will still be retained for a three year period. 4.1 million euros has been allocated for the start-up costs associated with the database in 2010. In 2007, the Irish Human Rights Commission was critical of a previous draft of the legislation. Until the full Bill is published it is unclear to what extent it will address these concerns. In a separate development, it has emerged that a Dublin children's hospital has been holding DNA records of almost every person born in Ireland since 1984 without consent. The Temple Street Children's Hospital has acted as a national centre for "heel prick tests" which involve the taking of a blood sample from each newborn child and using that sample to screen for disease. However, the hospital does not destroy those samples when screening is complete but instead retains those samples indefinitely, linked to the individual. There are approximately 1.54 million samples held on this database, which would include the overwhelming majority of Irish people aged 25 or younger. The hospital is currently under investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner who may order the destruction of these samples. Law Reform Commission, Report on the Establishment of a DNA Database (11.2005) http://www.lawreform.ie/DNA%20Database%20Report%20No1.pdf Irish Human Rights Commission, Safeguards in DNA Database Scheme of Bill 'Inadequate' (8.08.2007) http://www.ihrc.ie/press_releases/newsarticle.asp?NID=215&NCID=12&T=N Connolly, Suspects forced to give DNA samples under new legislation (20.12.2009) http://www.sbpost.ie/news/suspects-forced-to-give-dna-samples-under-new-leg… Connolly, New DNA Bill faces opposition (20.12.2009) http://www.sbpost.ie/news/ireland/new-dna-bill-faces-opposition-46369.html Dail debates (10.12.2009) http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-12-10.551.0 Tighe, Hospital keeps secret DNA file (27.12.2009) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6968561.ece Tighe, Records stolen from hospital that held secret DNA database (10.01.2010) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6982446.ece (Contribution by TJ McIntyre - EDRi-member Digital Rights Ireland) ============================================================ 7. France wants to tax search engines and ISPs for online advertising ============================================================ A report commissioned by the French culture ministry issued on 6 January 2010 proposes a tax on online advertising in order to support the production of music, films and journalism in the digital age. France is not at the first attempt to tax online advertising. In 2009, after banning advertising on public TV channels, the government proposed a tax on ISPs, mobile operators and commercial TV broadcasters to help fund public television. The new document, called the Zelnik report (after the its author's name), includes 22 measures intended to improve the sale of online content. Among these measures, the report proposes the introduction of a so-called "Google tax" of 1% to 2% applied on the revenues obtained by search engines and portals from online advertising. The search engines would be taxed every time an ad or sponsored link is clicked in France, irrespective of the origin of that advertisement, and the ISPs would be taxed based on their traffic. Another proposal of the report is the introduction of a music voucher system for young people between 15 and 24 with cards allowing them to buy tracks and albums at a 50% discount, covered 20% by the government and 30% by the record companies. Similar systems could be developed for films by means of subsidised subscriptions for videos and digital books as well. According to another recommendation of the Zelnik report, a licence should be bought by music and video streaming sites such as YouTube and Daily Motion in order to allow unlimited access to their content. While the entertainment industry welcomed the document, Google France has tried to underline that the cultural producers should make efforts to develop new business models that might be more efficient than depending on taxation for support. "There is an opportunity here to promote innovative solutions, rather than extending the attitude of opposition between the internet world and the cultural world, for example through the approach of taxation," said Google France spokesman Olivier Esper. The report is now under consideration by the Culture Ministry. Google and "music card", Sarkozy validates most of the propositions of Zelnik mission (only in French, 7.01.2010) http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2010/01/07/google-dans-le-colima… France considers tax on search engines (8.01.2010) http://euobserver.com/9/29228 Sacre Bleu! France Mulls Tax On Web Ads To Bail Out Old Media (7.01.2010) http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-sacre-bleu-france-mulls-tax-on-web-ads… ============================================================ 8. Spain: NGO fined by the Supreme Court for hosting offensive contents ============================================================ At the end of December 2009, the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed its ruling in making Asociacisn de Internautas (Internet Users Association - AI) pay a 18 000 Euro fine to SGAE (the General Society of Authors and Editors) for having hosted sites such as putasgae.org and antisgae.internaturas.org which included offences to SGAE. The case was introduced by SGAE in March 2004 which stated that the website of AI was hosting webpages with the addresses mentioned above, which contained expressions like "hired gun", "mob gang", "fucking pickpockets". On 6 February 2006, the National High Court in Madrid sentenced AI to pay 18 000 euros to the authors society and ordered the removal of the websites and the offensive contents. The association was also to publish the content of the ruling on its website. AI appealed to the Supreme Court and denied any responsibility related to the offensive contents of the respective websites and used the freedom of expression as argument. The association stated that it had nothing to do with the creation of the respective contents and that it was unaware of the offences brought to SAGE through them. The court considered that AI was guilty as owners of the sub-domain antisgae.internautas.org. However, the usage was ceded to third parties which were managing autonomously and technically controlling the sub-domain. Therefore AI was only acting as a hosting service provider fact which was accepted by the court. According to the Spanish law the AI as a hosting provider should have not been considered responsible for the hosted content as long as they were unaware of any offensive content. The High Court however rejected the appeal considering the argument was irrelevant as the names of the pages were considered relevant enough by themselves and ruled that AI had breached the right of honour of SGAE. The Association must actually pay another 18 000 euro to the president of SAGE Teddy Bautista. We have lost PUTASGAE case (in Spanish, 22.12.2009) http://www.internautas.org/html/5906.html "PUTASGAE": One more door towards the legal insecurity and the culpability presumption on the Internet (only in Spanish, 27.12.2009) http://www.internautas.org/html/5906.html The Supreme Court ratifies the fine of 36,000 euros to AI for hosting putasgae.org (only in Spanish, 22.12.2009) http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Supremo/ratifica/condena/36000/eu… ============================================================ 9. Hungary introduces mandatory open standards for public institutions ============================================================ The Hungarian Parliament decided at the end of 2009 to make open standards mandatory for communications between public institutions, utility companies and citizens through the central governmental system. The Parliament amended Act LX of 2009 on electronic public services. The amendment was initiated by Hungarian NGO The Open Standards Alliance with the purpose to promote monopoly-free markets and the development of interchangeable and interoperable products generated by open standards. The standards used need to be publicly accessible, free of charge, royalty free without restrictions, and neutral from the competition point of view thus allowing for real interoperability. The Open Standards Alliance intends to further cooperate with the government and, in this sense, it will initiate the collaboration between governmental representatives, public utility companies and consumer protection organisations. The alliance also intends to promote interoperability based on publicly defined open standards to become a EU norm during the Hungarian EU presidency in 2011 and, to this purpose, it will initiate public collaboration between all civil and public interested parties within the EU. Mandatory Use of Open Standards In Hungary (18.12.2009) http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/18/2123215/Mandatory-Use-of-Open-Standa… 10 points on the mandatory use of open standards in Hungary (17.12.2009) http://nyissz.hu/blog/10-points-on-the-mandatory-use-of-open-standards-in-h… ============================================================ 10. IP Chapter in the EU-Korea free trade agreement essentially flawed ============================================================ The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) calls upon the EU Parliament and member states to remove the intellectual property rights chapter from the EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement. According to the FFII analysis, the free trade agreement is a threat to software companies, companies that use software, and free software projects; this undermines innovation, competitiveness and legal certainty. In October 2009, after more than two years of secret negotiations, the EU and the Republic of Korea initialled their free trade agreement. The agreement awaits ratification by the EU Parliament and member states. The free trade agreement contains strong measures against patent infringements. It provides injunctions, high damages, seizures, destruction of production materials and removal of online software repositories. A suspicion may be enough for seizures and injunctions. An allegation may be enough to freeze assets. FFII analyst Ante Wessels comments: "These strong measures may be justified against hard core counterfeiters. They are not justified against software developers. Software patents are so broad in scope, doubtful in validity, and so numerous that unintentional infringement is unavoidable in the normal course of business. Therefore, competitors and patent trolls can always find a stick to hit software companies, companies that use software and free software projects. The whole sector is at risk." The free trade agreement also contains border measures against patent infringements. Ante Wessels: "With the numerous software patents out there, all software products and all products containing software may infringe patents. An allegation is enough to have them seized at the border. Then they stay seized until a civil court case made clear whether a patent was infringed or not. This gives competitors and patent trolls enormous power - how many small and medium enterprises, and free software projects, have the money to defend against this? It is the contrary of stimulating free trade." The free trade agreement is based on existing EU legislation. "Exporting EU- style enforcement legislation to foreign trading partners is an (un)official goal of EU policy", professor Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute Munich, remarked in a presentation in December. She added: "If and where legislation is (partly) flawed, export is no recommendable option." The severe consequences of flawed enforcement legislation were on display in the recent EU seizures of life saving medicine meant for developing countries. After these seizures have became known, the Dutch Minister for Developmental Aid, Bert Koenders, said that he wanted to change the EU rules on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, and that he would even like to violate these rules. Ante Wessels commented: "The seizures of life saving medicine and the treatment of software developers as hard core counterfeiters are two consequences of flawed EU legislation. Europe should be well aware that if we export this flawed legislation, the agreement will be binding. We will not be able to repair our own legislation anymore." EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement (15.10.2009) http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=443 FFII analysis (7.01.2010) http://action.ffii.org/acta/korea Presentation professor Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute Munich (18.12.2009) http://www.se2009.eu/polopoly_fs/1.28342!menu/standard/file/Kur%2C%20Max%20… EU seizures of life saving medicine meant for developing countries (5.06.2009) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/05/drug-seizures-in-frankfurt-spark-… Dutch Minister for Developmental Aid, Bert Koenders (25.06.2009) http://www.idafoundation.org/we-inform/news/single-news/news/response-mr-ko… EDRi-gram: Secret IPR measures in EU - South Korea trade agreement (23.09.2009) http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.18/ipr-eu-south-korea (Thanks to Ante Wessels - FFII) ============================================================ 11. Recommended Action ============================================================ Stop Digital Strip Search in airports JOIN - Facebook Group: Stop Airport Strip Searches http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=179598280013&ref=mf ENDORSE - Privacy Coalition: Sign the Petition to the US Congress http://privacycoalition.org/stopwholebodyimaging/ ENDORSE: Madrid Privacy Declaration http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/ SIGN - International Boycott of Body Scanners (IBBS) http://www.petitiononline.com/IBBS/petition.html SIGN - UK Petition to abandon the proposed rollout of airport body scanners. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AirportScanners/ ============================================================ 12. Recommended Reading ============================================================ Public Domain Day - 1 January http://www.publicdomainday.org Creative Commons and Related Rights in Sound Recordings: Are the Two Systems Compatible? http://www.ivir.nl/publications/angelopoulos/Creative_Commons_and_Sound_Rec… Europe's dysfunctional private copying levy to remain http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/europes-dysfunctional-priva… ============================================================ 13. Agenda ============================================================ 20-22 January 2010, Namur, Belgium The Conference for the 30th Anniversary of the CRID - An Information Society for All : A Legal Challenge http://www.crid.be/30years/ 29-30 January 2009, Turin, Italy "Cultural Commons" - First International Workshop http://www.css-ebla.it/css/ 29-30 January 2009, Brussels, Belgium Third edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection - CPDP 2010 - An Element of Choice http://www.cpdpconferences.org/ 5 February 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2010 https://www.bof.nl/2009/12/08/geef-kandidaten-op-voor-de-big-brother-awards… 6-7 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 2010 http://www.fosdem.org/2010/ 14-16 April 2010, Berlin, Germany re:publica'10 - Conference about blogs, social media and the digital society Call for Proposals deadline: 31 January 2010. http://www.re-publica.de/10 24 April 2010, London, United Kingdom Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010 Call for Proposals deadline: 31 January 2010. http://www.okfn.org/okcon/ 29-30 April 2010 EuroDIG 2010 http://www.eurodig.org/ 26-28 May 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands World Congress on Information Technology http://www.wcit2010.com/ 9-11 July 2010, Gdansk, Poland Wikimedia 2010 - the 6th annual Wikimedia Conference http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010 25-27 June 2010, Cluj, Romania Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/ 13-17 September 2010, Crete, Greece Privacy and Security in the Future Internet 3rd Network and Information Security (NIS'10) Summer School http://www.nis-summer-school.eu ============================================================ 14. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 27 members based or with offices in 17 different countries in Europe. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge and awareness through the EDRI-grams. All contributions, suggestions for content, corrections or agenda-tips are most welcome. Errors are corrected as soon as possible and visibly on the EDRI website. Except where otherwise noted, this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. 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