July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: brute force physics Was: cleversafe...
by Jerry Leichter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Aug 10, 2009, at 4:42 AM, Alexander Klimov wrote: >On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Jerry Leichter wrote: >>Since people do keep bringing up Moore's Law in an attempt to justify >>larger keys our systems "stronger than cryptography," it's worth >>keeping in mind that we are approaching fairly deep physical limits. >>I wrote about this on this list quite a while back. If current >>physical theories are even approximately correct, there are limits to >>how many "bit flips" (which would encompass all possible binary >>operations) can occur in a fixed volume of space-time. > >A problem with this reasoning is that the physical world and the usual >digital computers have exponential simulation gap (it is known at >least in one direction: to simulate N entangled particles on a digital >computer one needs computations exponential in N). This can be >considered as a reason to suspect that physical world is >non-polynomially faster than the usual computers (probably even to an >extent that all NP computations can be simulated). When the first results about exponential speedup of factoring came out, people assumed that this was true in general. But it isn't. In particular, simple search, where you have only an equality test so you can't build a hash table or some kind of ordered structure - is O(N) on a traditional computer - and O(sqrt(N)) on a quantum computer. I'm not sure what the current knowledge about what a quantum machine can do for NP computations, but there's no "probably" here. >While it is possible to use physical world to simulate usual computers >in the straightforward way (namely by using voltage levels of a >circuit to represent separate bits), it is not clear that doing >computations in this way is the best way to do computations, for >example, if the meaning of our computations are simulation of the >physical world, then it can be better to use direct >physical-to-physical mapping instead of physical-to-usual followed by >usual-to-physical: analog computers, such as wind tunnels, are still >in use. > >I am not aware of any plausible argument why a brute force search in >general (a quintessence of NP class, by the way) or a key search >against any particular algorithm cannot be implemented in a direct way >significantly faster than in the indirect way, that is NP-to-physical >instead of NP-to-usual followed by usual-to-physical. All the fuss >about quantum computing is exactly because people believe that a >different mapping (not thru usual computers) can be more efficient (if >I understand correctly, right now neither the class of algorithms that >can be sped up this way is understood, nor the quantum computers of >practical capacity exist). The physical arguments to which I was referring say *nothing* about how the computation is done. It can be a QM computation as well. In any case, the simple search result above applies directly to brute force: For that problem, you only get a polynomial speedup anyway. >>All the protocols and standards out there calling for AES-256 - it's >>obviously "better" than AES-128 because after all 256 is *twice as >>large* as 128! - were just a bunch of nonsense. And, perhaps, >>dangerous nonsense. > >I see the situation in the positive way: the recent AES attacks >stress the fact that the key management should be done >correctly, in particular, keys should be derived thru KDF (not >a simple xor) and must be authenticated. With this attack in >hand it is much easier for us now to say why one should not use >K to encrypt messages of one type and K+1 for another type, or >why it is a bad idea to encrypt a key in CTR mode and store the >result without a MAC. I doubt it is possible to find any >professionally designed protocol or standard that becomes weak >due to the recent discovery. That's a ... bizarre point of view. :-) Should freedom from related- key attacks be part of the definition of a "secure" encryption algorithm? We should decide that on some rational basis, not on whether, with care, we can avoid such attacks. Clearly, a system that *is* secure against such attacks is more robust. Do we know how to build such a thing? What's the cost of doing so? But to say it's an *advantage* to have a weakness seems like some kind of odd moral argument: If you're hurt by this it's because you *deserve* to be. -- Jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- 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: AP Al Qaeda
by mattd 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>>No, no. AP is funny because it's impracticeable. One does not find an assassin exclusively by tracing who paid him to kill. One can (and often does) find him because he makes a mistake in the act of commiting the crime. Which, if I'm >>reading my history right, is what's hampered the noisy proponents of AP up to this point already. Crime? Wot crime,guvnor? Jim and CJ were not 'noisy'.imo. Im a bit noisy cos Im pushing the 'let it all hang out' version. >The point is that Bell's theory does a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination,...< Oh THATS funny.I get it. HAHAHA! >>Killing one person, especially a public official, pisses a whole bunch of people off. Those people have a tendency to come find their buddy's killer. Mmm,where do we start,lets get some firebrands and go up to the proffrs? Look at sites with no logs for quad anon 'predictors' who may be overseas briefly visiting cybercafes,Good luck china.(you just contradicted yrself btw.) Oh,unless you mean the torture/french village reprisal thang.Win friends and influence people. The one person killed will have had to have done a lot of evil shit to get enough pooled (presumably) to tempt a seasoned pro.Unless some professional killer turns all altruistic,stranger things have happened.The killer could be suicidal.another possibility.Lots of scenarios possible here,movie scripts,even.Pop songs,video games.DoCoMo assasinphones. Someone like a torturer,murderer,terrorist,pedophile is a logical candidate.(stephen roach?)Sometimes these happen to be public officials.Theres one here where I live named dennis Tanner.(vic.au) Those killers by remote control like arbusto might be be made more accountable. What better way than...Bell's theory, "a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination"according to you. KILL THE PRESIDENT! "Id buy that for a dollar!" >>No kind of real or threatened assassination can weaken a government in which a majority of the governed people >believe. It can only make it seem more righteous and be more strong. Thats true,roll over and go back to sleep,if you live under that govt you have nothing to worry about. More righteous and more smug.

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[ZS] Fwd: [HacDC:Byzantium] Announcing the release of Byzantium Linux v0.2a (codename: Bath Salts)
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Announcing the release of Byzantium Linux v0.2a (codename: Bath Salts) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:29:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Mendis <dragonwisard(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: byzantium(a)hacdc.org To: byzantium(a)hacdc.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good news everybody! We're finially recovering from all the excitement and lack of sleep that was HOPE. So we know this announcment is a little late, since we already did this on stage on Saturday, but better late than never. The whole team, as well as our very dedicated supporters, is proud to officially announce the public release of Byzantium Linux V0.2a. You can find the download links on our website (http://project-byzantium.org) as well as on several popular torrent trackers. We also have a few of the printed CDs left over (and more on the way) which are available upon request. We have code-named this release "Bath Salts" as a reference to the drug which was originally reported to be responsible for several zombie-like cannibal attacks. Please help us distribute this release announcment far and wide. The official text is included below. Thank you all, Ben the Pyrate == ANNOUNCING BYZANTIUM LINUX V0.2a (Bath Salts) Approved for: GENERAL RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED Project Byzantium, a working group of HacDC (http://hacdc.org/) is proud to announce the release of v0.2 alpha of Byzantium Linux, a live distribution of Linux which makes it fast and easy to construct an ad-hoc wireless mesh network which can augment or replace the current telecommunications infrastructure in the event that it is knocked offline (for example, due to a natural disaster) or rendered untrustworthy (through widespread surveillance or disconnection by hostile entities). Byzantium Linux is designed to run on any x86 computer with at least one 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless interface. Byzantium can be burned to a CD- or DVD-ROM (the .iso image is around 460 megabytes in size), booted from an external hard drive, or can even be installed in parallel with an existing operating system without risk to the user's data and software. Byzantium Linux will act as a node of the mesh and will automatically connect to other mesh nodes and act as an access point for wifi-enabled mobile devices. THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE! Do NOT expect Byzantium to be perfect. Some features are not ready yet, others need work. Things are going to break in weird ways and we need to know what those ways are so we can fix them. Please, for the love of LOLcats, do not deploy Byzantium in situations where lives are at stake. FEATURES: - - Binary compatible with Slackware-CURRENT. Existing Slackware packages can be converted with a single command. - - Can act as a gateway to the Internet if a link is available (via Ethernet or tethered smartphone). - - Linux kernel v3.1.8 - - Drivers for dozens of wireless chipsets - - KDE Trinity v3.5.12 - - LXDE (2010 release of all components) - - Mplayer - - GCC v4.5.2 - - Perl v5.12.3 - - Python v2.6.6 - - Firefox v4.0.1 - - X.org - - Custom web-based control panel SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (to use) - - Minimum of 1GB of RAM (512MB without copy2ram boot option) - - i586 CPU or better - - CD- or DVD-ROM drive - - BIOS must boot removable media - - At least one (1) 802.11 a/b/g/n interface SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (for persistent changes) - - The above requirements to use Byzantium - - 2+GB of free space on thumbdrive or harddrive WHAT WE NEED: - - Developers. - - Developers! - - DEVELOPERS! - - No more Bill Ballmer impersonations. - - People running Byzantium to find bugs. - - People reporting bugs on our Github page (https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/issues) We can't fix what we don't know about! - - Patches. - - People booting Byzantium and setting up small meshes (2-5 clients) to tell us how well it works for you with your hardware. We have a hardware compatibility list on our wiki that needs to be expanded. - - Help translating the user interface. We especially need people fluent in dialects of Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. - - Help us write and translate documentation. Homepage: http://project-byzantium.org/ Download sites: http://project-byzantium.org/download/ This announcement is published under a Creative Commons By Attribution / Noncommercial / Share Alike v3.0 License. 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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Building a personal software stack
by Jonas Smedegaard 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Quoting Melvin Carvalho (2013-01-05 02:43:28) > On 29 December 2012 18:30, Petar PetroviD <[1]petar(a)petrovic.io> wrote: >> I think that we don't HAVE to integrate everything, at least not >> during the initial development. I think we should focus on building a >> software stack, and then at some point, we can decide if deep >> integration is worth the effort. Of course, I am always open for >> different opinions and ideas. Yes, let's build FreedomBox 1.0 before we build FreedomBox 2.0. In my mind, FreedomBox 1.0 is *boring* - it contains no new inventions, only oldfashioned Debian mechanisms served user-friendly boxed. That in itself is a *big* milestone for FreedomBox. FreedomBox 2.0 is *interesting* - it contains improved ways of doing stuff classic among geeks, and still does it user-friendly boxed. FreedomBox 3.0 is *exciting* - it contains new inventions that have happened in parallel to our "boring" work, inspired by similar events that triggered the FreedomBox project but without that tough contraint of being user-friendly. Of course when those inventions reach FreedomBox they _are_ provided user-friendly boxed - because that is a fundamental requirement of FreedomBox. We (as in the developers on FreedomBox) HAVE to integrate everything needed for serving privacy-aware functionality in a user-friendly way. If we don't, we don't have a FreedomBox, but some other Debian-related tool or toy. > Yes, I think this is a valid approach.B The web was designed to tie > many systems together via the hyperlink. True that the web is about tying many systems together. FreedomBox, however, is about protecting privacy, and here it does matter crucially to have enough functionality locally so as to not leak privacy when doing said hyperlinking. FreedomBox is also about serving non-geeks, and here it is crucial that all interaction is user-friendly. *ALL* interaction! There is *no* admin, beyond the user herself/himself! > Of course it would be nice if the integrations could provide a > seamless user experience, but perhaps that can only happen over > time... If you mean postponing user-friendliness till later, then it sounds to me like you are talking about something (quite exciting and worthwhile to try reach but) different from Freedombox. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss(a)lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- 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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[Politech] France bans citizens from recording violence, Web sites from reproducing videos [fs]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Background on "happy slapping": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping -------- Original Message -------- Subject: France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:57:02 -0700 From: Richard Smith <richard2(a)fastermail.com> To: declan(a)well.com http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/06/franceban/index.php?lsrc=mwrss quote: The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. Apparenly there's little mention of it in the mainstream french media. You can read the press release from Odebi here (in french): http://www.odebi.org/new2/?p=223 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FRANCE : New prevention of criminality law poses threat to citizen reporting / FRANCE : Loi sur la privention de la dilinquance , un risque pour l'information citoyenne Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:46:56 +0100 From: rsf.Internet <internet(a)rsf.org> To: internet(a)rsf.org English / frangais 7.03.07 Reporters Without Borders / Internet Freedom desk FRANCE NEW PREVENTION OF CRIMINALITY LAW POSES THREAT TO CITIZEN REPORTING Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about a new French law on the prevention of criminality following its approval by the constitutional council on 5 March. "The sections of this law supposedly dealing with 'happy slapping' in fact have a much broader scope, and posting videos online showing violence against people could now be banned, even if it were the police who were carrying out the violence," the organisation said. "We make no assumptions about the government's intentions and we recognise the need to prevent the spread of 'happy slapping,' but this law introduces a dangerous distinction between professional journalists, allowed to disseminate images of violence, and ordinary citizens, who could be jailed for the same thing," Reporters Without Borders continued. "It is particularly regrettable that the law would forbid the online distribution of images showing acts of violence by the security forces," the press freedom organisation added. The law on the prevention of criminality (http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/ta/ta0680.asp) which was adopted on 13 February, was referred to the constitutional council by the socialist group in parliament. The referral did not specifically concern the section dealing with 'happy slapping.' The law provides for sentences of up to five years in prison and fines of 75,000 euros for disseminating images concerning the offences listed in 222-1 to 222-14-1 and 222-23 to 222-31 of the criminal code. These offences range from acts of serious violence ("torture" and "acts of barbarity") to ordinary physical attacks. Article 222-13 concerns violence "committed by an agent of the state in the exercise of his duties." The law specifies that the ban "is not applicable when the recording or dissemination is the result of the normal exercise of a profession whose purpose is to inform the public or if it is carried out with the aim of serving as judicial evidence." 'Happy slapping' is a physical attack on a person carried out with the aim of obtaining a video recording of the attack, which is then circulated by mobile phone or posted on the Internet. Reporters Without Borders points out that all Internet users are now in a position to participate in the creation and dissemination of information. They are often the "recorders" of an event, especially thanks to mobile phones with photo and video capability, and can disseminate their own content online. These "citizen journalists" can play a role in monitoring the activities of the authorities throughout the world. In Egypt, for example, bloggers recently revealed a series of scandals involving the security services and showed, by means of video recordings made clandestinely in detention centres, that torture is still regularly practised in Egypt. In the field of human rights, it is them and not professional journalists who have been responsible for the most reliable reports and information - the information that has most upset the government. Reporters Without Borders thinks it would be shocking if this kind of activity, which constitutes a safeguard against abuses of authority, were to be criminalized in a democratic country. ********* Create your blog with Reporters Without Borders, and read our weekly blog review at www.rsfblog.org ---------------------------- FRANCE LOI SUR LA PREVENTION DE LA DELINQUANCE : UN RISQUE POUR L'INFORMATION CITOYENNE Reporters sans frontihres exprime son inquiitude aprhs la validation par le Conseil constitutionnel, le 5 mars 2007, de la loi sur la privention de la dilinquance. "Les passages de ce texte censis traiter du 'happy slapping' ont en rialiti une portie beaucoup plus large. Les internautes se voient disormais interdire de publier des vidios montrant des violences sur personne, mjme si ces actes sont commis par les forces de police", a diclari l'organisation. "Nous ne prisumons pas des intentions du gouvernement et reconnaissons qu'il est nicessaire d'empjcher la propagation du 'happy slapping'. Mais cette loi introduit une distinction dangereuse entre les journalistes professionnels, autorisis ` diffuser des images de violences, et les simples citoyens, qui risquent la prison pour les mjmes faits. Il est particulihrement regrettable que ce texte instaure une interdiction de faire circuler sur Internet les images d'iventuelles exactions commises par les forces de l'ordre", a ajouti l'organisation. La loi sur la privention de la dilinquance (http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/ta/ta0680.asp) adoptie le 13 fivrier 2007, avait iti portie devant le Conseil constitutionnel par le groupe socialiste ` l'Assemblie. Mais la saisine ne portait pas spicifiquement sur le passage de la loi didii au happy slapping. Le texte privoit des peines allant jusqu'` cinq ans de prison et 75 000 euros d'amende pour la diffusion d'images portant sur les infractions mentionnies dans les articles 222-1 ` 222-14-1 et 222-23 ` 222-31 du code pinal. Les dilits concernis vont des actes de violence graves ("tortures" et "actes de barbarie") ` de simples agressions. L'article 222-13 porte sur les violences "commises par un dipositaire de l'autoriti publique (?) dans l'exercice (?) de ses fonctions". La loi pricise que cette interdiction "n'est pas applicable lorsque l'enregistrement ou la diffusion risulte de l'exercice normal d'une profession ayant pour objet d'informer le public ou est rialisi afin de servir de preuve en justice". Le Happy slapping est l'agression physique d'une personne commise dans le but d'obtenir un film de cette agression. Le document vidio est ensuite ichangi par le biais de tiliphones portables ou publii sur Internet. Reporters sans frontihres rappelle que tous les internautes ont aujourd'hui la possibiliti de participer ` la criation et ` la diffusion de l'information. Ils sont parfois les "capteurs" d'un ivinement, grbce notamment aux tiliphones portables capables d'enregistrer des images et des vidios, et peuvent diffuser leurs propres contenus sur le Net. Ces "journalistes citoyens" ont notamment une fonction de surveillance de l'activiti des pouvoirs publics partout dans le monde. En Egypte, par exemple, des blogueurs ont ricemment rivili une sirie de scandales impliquant les services de sicuriti et dimontri, au moyen de vidios tournies clandestinement dans des centres de ditention, que la torture itait encore rigulihrement pratiquie dans ce pays. Dans le domaine des droits de l'homme, ce sont eux, et non des journalistes professionnels, qui ont iti ` l'origine des informations les plus fiables et les plus dirangeantes pour le gouvernement. Reporters sans frontihres considhre qu'il serait choquant que ce type d'activiti, qui constitue un garde-fou important contre d'iventuelles dirives du pouvoir, soit criminalisi dans un pays dimocratique. -- Bureau Internet et libertis / Internet Freedom desk ___________________________________________ Reporters sans frontihres / Reporters Without Borders TEL: ++ 33 (0) 1 44 83 84 71 FAX: ++ 33 (0) 1 45 23 11 51 internet(a)rsf.org www.internet.rsf.org www.rsfblog.org - Do something good by creating your blog with us. - Read our weekly "blog review" www.leblogmedias.com / "L'actualiti des midias" (en frangais) Read our handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents : http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[Politech] France bans citizens from recording violence, Web sites from reproducing videos [fs]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Background on "happy slapping": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping -------- Original Message -------- Subject: France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:57:02 -0700 From: Richard Smith <richard2(a)fastermail.com> To: declan(a)well.com http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/06/franceban/index.php?lsrc=mwrss quote: The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. Apparenly there's little mention of it in the mainstream french media. You can read the press release from Odebi here (in french): http://www.odebi.org/new2/?p=223 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FRANCE : New prevention of criminality law poses threat to citizen reporting / FRANCE : Loi sur la privention de la dilinquance , un risque pour l'information citoyenne Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:46:56 +0100 From: rsf.Internet <internet(a)rsf.org> To: internet(a)rsf.org English / frangais 7.03.07 Reporters Without Borders / Internet Freedom desk FRANCE NEW PREVENTION OF CRIMINALITY LAW POSES THREAT TO CITIZEN REPORTING Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about a new French law on the prevention of criminality following its approval by the constitutional council on 5 March. "The sections of this law supposedly dealing with 'happy slapping' in fact have a much broader scope, and posting videos online showing violence against people could now be banned, even if it were the police who were carrying out the violence," the organisation said. "We make no assumptions about the government's intentions and we recognise the need to prevent the spread of 'happy slapping,' but this law introduces a dangerous distinction between professional journalists, allowed to disseminate images of violence, and ordinary citizens, who could be jailed for the same thing," Reporters Without Borders continued. "It is particularly regrettable that the law would forbid the online distribution of images showing acts of violence by the security forces," the press freedom organisation added. The law on the prevention of criminality (http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/ta/ta0680.asp) which was adopted on 13 February, was referred to the constitutional council by the socialist group in parliament. The referral did not specifically concern the section dealing with 'happy slapping.' The law provides for sentences of up to five years in prison and fines of 75,000 euros for disseminating images concerning the offences listed in 222-1 to 222-14-1 and 222-23 to 222-31 of the criminal code. These offences range from acts of serious violence ("torture" and "acts of barbarity") to ordinary physical attacks. Article 222-13 concerns violence "committed by an agent of the state in the exercise of his duties." The law specifies that the ban "is not applicable when the recording or dissemination is the result of the normal exercise of a profession whose purpose is to inform the public or if it is carried out with the aim of serving as judicial evidence." 'Happy slapping' is a physical attack on a person carried out with the aim of obtaining a video recording of the attack, which is then circulated by mobile phone or posted on the Internet. Reporters Without Borders points out that all Internet users are now in a position to participate in the creation and dissemination of information. They are often the "recorders" of an event, especially thanks to mobile phones with photo and video capability, and can disseminate their own content online. These "citizen journalists" can play a role in monitoring the activities of the authorities throughout the world. In Egypt, for example, bloggers recently revealed a series of scandals involving the security services and showed, by means of video recordings made clandestinely in detention centres, that torture is still regularly practised in Egypt. In the field of human rights, it is them and not professional journalists who have been responsible for the most reliable reports and information - the information that has most upset the government. Reporters Without Borders thinks it would be shocking if this kind of activity, which constitutes a safeguard against abuses of authority, were to be criminalized in a democratic country. ********* Create your blog with Reporters Without Borders, and read our weekly blog review at www.rsfblog.org ---------------------------- FRANCE LOI SUR LA PREVENTION DE LA DELINQUANCE : UN RISQUE POUR L'INFORMATION CITOYENNE Reporters sans frontihres exprime son inquiitude aprhs la validation par le Conseil constitutionnel, le 5 mars 2007, de la loi sur la privention de la dilinquance. "Les passages de ce texte censis traiter du 'happy slapping' ont en rialiti une portie beaucoup plus large. Les internautes se voient disormais interdire de publier des vidios montrant des violences sur personne, mjme si ces actes sont commis par les forces de police", a diclari l'organisation. "Nous ne prisumons pas des intentions du gouvernement et reconnaissons qu'il est nicessaire d'empjcher la propagation du 'happy slapping'. Mais cette loi introduit une distinction dangereuse entre les journalistes professionnels, autorisis ` diffuser des images de violences, et les simples citoyens, qui risquent la prison pour les mjmes faits. Il est particulihrement regrettable que ce texte instaure une interdiction de faire circuler sur Internet les images d'iventuelles exactions commises par les forces de l'ordre", a ajouti l'organisation. La loi sur la privention de la dilinquance (http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/ta/ta0680.asp) adoptie le 13 fivrier 2007, avait iti portie devant le Conseil constitutionnel par le groupe socialiste ` l'Assemblie. Mais la saisine ne portait pas spicifiquement sur le passage de la loi didii au happy slapping. Le texte privoit des peines allant jusqu'` cinq ans de prison et 75 000 euros d'amende pour la diffusion d'images portant sur les infractions mentionnies dans les articles 222-1 ` 222-14-1 et 222-23 ` 222-31 du code pinal. Les dilits concernis vont des actes de violence graves ("tortures" et "actes de barbarie") ` de simples agressions. L'article 222-13 porte sur les violences "commises par un dipositaire de l'autoriti publique (?) dans l'exercice (?) de ses fonctions". La loi pricise que cette interdiction "n'est pas applicable lorsque l'enregistrement ou la diffusion risulte de l'exercice normal d'une profession ayant pour objet d'informer le public ou est rialisi afin de servir de preuve en justice". Le Happy slapping est l'agression physique d'une personne commise dans le but d'obtenir un film de cette agression. Le document vidio est ensuite ichangi par le biais de tiliphones portables ou publii sur Internet. Reporters sans frontihres rappelle que tous les internautes ont aujourd'hui la possibiliti de participer ` la criation et ` la diffusion de l'information. Ils sont parfois les "capteurs" d'un ivinement, grbce notamment aux tiliphones portables capables d'enregistrer des images et des vidios, et peuvent diffuser leurs propres contenus sur le Net. Ces "journalistes citoyens" ont notamment une fonction de surveillance de l'activiti des pouvoirs publics partout dans le monde. En Egypte, par exemple, des blogueurs ont ricemment rivili une sirie de scandales impliquant les services de sicuriti et dimontri, au moyen de vidios tournies clandestinement dans des centres de ditention, que la torture itait encore rigulihrement pratiquie dans ce pays. Dans le domaine des droits de l'homme, ce sont eux, et non des journalistes professionnels, qui ont iti ` l'origine des informations les plus fiables et les plus dirangeantes pour le gouvernement. Reporters sans frontihres considhre qu'il serait choquant que ce type d'activiti, qui constitue un garde-fou important contre d'iventuelles dirives du pouvoir, soit criminalisi dans un pays dimocratique. -- Bureau Internet et libertis / Internet Freedom desk ___________________________________________ Reporters sans frontihres / Reporters Without Borders TEL: ++ 33 (0) 1 44 83 84 71 FAX: ++ 33 (0) 1 45 23 11 51 internet(a)rsf.org www.internet.rsf.org www.rsfblog.org - Do something good by creating your blog with us. - Read our weekly "blog review" www.leblogmedias.com / "L'actualiti des midias" (en frangais) Read our handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents : http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 6.10, 21 May 2008
by EDRI-gram newsletter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

============================================================ EDRI-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 6.10, 21 May 2008 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. New open doors for software patents in EU 2. Updates on Visa Information System Regulation 3. The French Government goes against CNIL in biometric passports 4. BBA Awards Italy 2008 5. UK Government will store all phone, Internet traffic data 6. Google StreetView might breach EU laws 7. Microsoft appeals the EC fine but faces even more complaints 8. Recommended Reading 9. Agenda 10. About ============================================================ 1. New open doors for software patents in EU ============================================================ Even though the European Parliament voted against the software patents in Europe in 2005, new measures that could make software patents enforceable are still being discussed with the US counterparts or within the framework of the Community Patent. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) reports that a bilateral patent treaty could be agreed and signed with the United States by the end of the year. The treaty could contain provisions on software patents that will make them legal in both states. Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent policy specialist, explained for FFII: "Talks in the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) are the current push for software patents. The US want to eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single European SME in there." The substantive harmonisation of patent laws was one of the topics during the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) on 13 May 2008 between high level representatives from EU and US. TEC is a closed trade process and it is not the first time free trade agreements are being used by the US counterparts to promote their IP requirement - such as the TRIPS treaty. Also it is worth noting that after the failure of the Substantive Patent Law Treaty, the US has switched to TEC, a closed forum, to discuss the software patents issues with EU. FFII President, Alberto Barrionuevo, explains why the current approach is wrong: "The European Union does not have a Community Patent, neither a substantive patent law in its acquis, except the biotech directive. As long as there is no substantive patent law in the EU, it is quite silly to discuss about a bilateral patent treaty with the United States. Its like a blind showing the way for a deaf. If the USA really wanted to fix their patent practice they should first switch to first-to-file and join the European Patent Convention." But this is not the only open door for software patents. The European Community Patent, a patent draft law that would allow individuals and companies to obtain a unitary patent throughout the European Union, is still being discussed. Acording to a member representing FSFE, part of the CEA-PME SME Federation, that participated in a Working breakfast on Community Patent, a Director of the European Commission considered the possible adoption of the Community Patent proposal as the final attempt. Right now only Spain is openly against the project. Apparently, most countries were now satisfied with the proposal to have patents only in English, French, and German. Unofficial automated translations would be provided in the other languages of the EU, even though the EC representative acknowledged the general low quality of automated translations but said that the EPO had now developed some amazing new software for automated translations. The FFII representative also highlighted the EC software patents policy: "When talking about software patents, she constantly called them "wrongly granted" patents or "disguised software patents". This is consistent with the European Commission's position that software patents are not valid, but "computer implemented inventions" are valid. In reality, the latter is just a vague term which includes software patents. The European Commission's use of these funny terms and definitions makes meaningful dialogue difficult." McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty (13.05.2008) http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/McCreevy_wants_to_legalise_Software_Pa… Working breakfast on Community Patent (15.05.2008) http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/working_brea… Transatlantic Economic Council: objectives for Spring 2008 meeting http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/enterprise_policy/inter_rel/tec/doc/tec_obje… EDRI-gram: ENDitorial - Regulating the Patent Industry (25.10.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.20/patents ============================================================ 2. Updates on Visa Information System Regulation ============================================================ An updated version of the Regulation on the Visa Information System (VIS) published by Statewatch reveals that only random checks might be carried out, if there are too many people waiting. As already presented in EDRi-gram, the legislative package on the Visa Information System that included the VIS Regulation has been adopted by the European Parliament. The system will allow fingerprinting and checking security of all visitors to EU that apply for a visa in their home country. All the details, including fingerprints are held on the central VIS database so that on entry to and exit from the EU identity checks can be carried out. The VIS Regulation will allow consulates and other competent authorities to start using the system when processing visa applications and to check visas. The European Data Protection Supervisor has insisted on the importance of data protection in these situation: "The VIS database will be the biggest cross border one in Europe. Some 20 million new entries per year, regarding people who apply for a Schengen visa, are foreseen. It is of utmost importance that data protection is taken seriously for these, a priori, innocent people". After the last meeting of the Working Party on Frontiers /Mixed Committee, the new proposal from the Council Presidency says that if there are too many people to be checked and "all resources have been exhausted" then only random checks will be carried out. This implies amending article 7(3) which is making the verification of the visa holder identity and the authenticity of the visa compulsory, by consulting the Visa Information System (VIS): "By way of derogation, where traffic of such intensity arises that the waiting time at the border crossing point becomes excessive and all resources have been exhausted as regards staff, facilities and organisation and where, on the basis of an assessment of the risk related to internal security and illegal immigration, it is established that the consultation in the Visa Information System need not be systematic, such consultation may be carried out on a random basis for as long as these conditions are met." Another issue with the VIS database is the possible access of the US authorities to its content. The idea was rejected in a debate at the European Parliament where the MEP Sarah Ludford, rapporteur on the EU Visa Information System, asked for clear assurances that the US would not acquire access to the databases: "At a time of warnings about the frightening spread of the Mafia as well as terrorist conspiracies, why is the EU going down this blind alley of mass surveillance of the 99.9 percent of the public which is innocent, when the real need is to target the 0.1 percent of travelers who might be dangerous or criminal through intelligence- led policing and effective cross-border cooperation between law enforcement agencies?" Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of amending Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 as regards the use of the Visa Information System (VIS) under the Schengen Borders Code (25.04.2008) http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/may/eu-vis-border-checks-8674-08.pdf An EU push for US visa waivers to protect privacy (28.04.2008) http://www.neurope.eu/articles/85783.php EDRi-gram: European Visa Information System accepted by the EU bodies (20.06.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.12/VIS-EU-adoption EDRi-gram: EU Visa Database under scrutiny of the European Data Protection (2.02.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.2/visadatabase ============================================================ 3. The French Government goes against CNIL in biometric passports ============================================================ Ignoring the opinion of the French Data Protection Authority - the National Commission for Information and Liberties (CNIL), on 4 May 2008, the French Government passed a decree on the basis of which the French citizens will have biometric passports that will include eight fingerprints and a digital picture. The data will be introduced in a large national database. Although symbolical, CNIL's opinion should have been published alongside with such a decree in the Official Journal. The Government's decree went against CNIL's unfavourable opinion given on 11 December 2007 which was published a week after the decree. Alex T|rk, president of CNIL reinforced the commission's position on 16 May 2008, on the occasion of the presentation of the annual report of the commission. "We haven't been heard on two issues: first, we believe such an important subject should go to the Parliament and the, we have not obtained the elements allowing the justification of creating this database" said Alex T|rk. The commission considers that the biometric passport does not seem to be a useful tool in fighting document fraud and that the targets proposed by the government of issuing, replacing or withdrawing passports as well as detecting and preventing document falsification "do not justify the retention, at the national level, of biometric data such as fingerprints" and, therefore, the creation of such a database is a disproportionate measure. CNIL also draws the attention on the fact that the decree goes even beyond the European regulation which has in view only two fingerprints and says nothing about preserving the information into a central database. The system involves "risks of serious damages to private life and individual liberties" in the commission's opinion. CNIL reinforces its opposition to the biometric passport (only in French, 17.05.2008) http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2008/05/17/la-cnil-reitere-son-oppos… Biometric passports: unfavourbale opinion from CNIL (only in French, 13.05.2008) http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/05/13/passeports-biometriques-av… Biometric passports: CNIL against central database (only in French, 10.05.2008) http://fr.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080510/tfr-passeport-gouvernement-cnil-lead-… CNIL Opinion on biometric passports (only in French, 11.12.2007) http://www.cnil.fr/?id=2427 ============================================================ 4. BBA Awards Italy 2008 ============================================================ The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2008 were presented on 10 May 2008 during an e-privacy convention in Florence. The Italian jury is formed by 6 jurors who have to vote over 26 nominations, out of which 5 are for the positive award. The public institution award was received by the Ministry of Economics for its very ample checking instruments. The institution is not the one to prove the citizens are breaking the law, instead it requires the tax payers to prove they are on the right side of the law. With the excuse of fighting tax evasion, the institution has been recently empowered to create mass personal (bank, health etc.) data filing, an obvious and useless violation of the citizens' privacy. The award for the worst private company was received by Yahoo for the intensive monitoring of its users. Yahoo has provided the Italian Government with data of its users. In the case of the Chinese journalist Shi Tao, during a hearing in front of a US Congress commission on 11 November 2007, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has admitted and apologized for the action and for having previously denying the fact. The most invasive technology was considered to be the DNA Bank of the RIS (the Scientific Investigation Division of the "carabinieri") of Parma which was created "quietly" without any specific normative act. No details are known about the genetic database and there is an obvious risk of abusing the respective data. TV journalist Bruno Vespa was awarded the "Boot in the Mouth" price for having dealt superficially and therefore misinforming people about the Internet and new technologies. During a broadcast on 21 February 2008, as in other previous occasions, he expressed alarming ideas on the impact on privacy and the education of young people of the Internet in general and of the new technologies. The life time award was received by Franco Frattini, the former EU Commissioner for Justice and Internal Affairs and since 8 May 2008 the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, for having spread an idea of security that involves "monitoring and censuring dangerous words". "Winston Smith - Privacy hero" positive awarded was given to Autistici/Inventati team for its entire activity and for having provided, voluntarily and free-of-charge, for years, communication services that have observed privacy more than the commercial or institutional organisations. Autistici/Inventati is the hero of privacy (only in Italian, 12.05.2008) http://punto-informatico.it/2281258/PI/News/Autistici-Inventati--egrave--l-… Big Brother Award Italy 2008 (only in Italian, 10.05.2008) http://bba.winstonsmith.info/ EDRi-gram: ENDitorial: "Frattinising" isn't the only threat (26.09.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.18/frattinising ============================================================ 5. UK Government will store all phone, Internet traffic data ============================================================ An announcement on 19 May 2008 by the UK government may herald the next step in governmental attempts to grab hold of traffic data. Despite the strongly negative reactions against the EU data retention directive, which governments must transpose into national law by 15 March 2009, the UK government (which has been a key driver of data retention) now demands even more. Gordon Brown wants all traffic data - itemised phone bills, mobile phone records and Internet traffic logs - to be collected and stored in a central government database. The plan, which appeared in Monday's Times, has been criticised by the opposition as `more of a threat to our security than a support' while the privacy regulator said that `We are not aware of any justification for the State to hold every UK citizen's phone and internet records' and opined that the proposal `may well be a step too far'. The UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act already enables public officials to obtain traffic data from service providers, and has come in for recent criticism as the scope of its use has become clear. When it was passed in 2000, only nine organisations were allowed to use it but that number has risen to 792. For example, a local council has used it to check whether a child lived within a school's catchment area. In private briefings to ISP and telco staff, government officials have said they want to trace criminals' contact networks faster and more cheaply, and having all traffic data on one database will be much more convenient than having to make repeated enquiries of multiple phone companies, ISPs and other service providers. They also want to make global enquiries such as `show me everyone in the UK who sent emails at 21:07, 21:22 and 21:55 last Tuesday'. The ISPs for their part have complained that harvesting large quantities of data that they do not at present keep for business purposes will require massively expensive network re-engineering. There are also serious doubts about the UK government's ability to build a system capable enough to cope with billions of emails, texts and phone messages, given its long history of failed software projects. One argument behind the data retention directive was that a purely national system of data retention could not be very effective, as ISPs would simply move their operations to other Member States to save the cost of compliance. It remains to be seen whether the same arguments will once again be used to argue for centralised data retention on a European scale. It is also quite unclear whether a government database of all citizens' phone and Internet records is consistent with European law. `Big Brother' database for phones and e-mails (20.05.2008) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/ar… Anti-terror law used to snoop on fishermen (14.05.2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1952551/Anti-terror-law-used-to-snoo… Government orders data retention by ISPs (15.05.2008) http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9121 EDRI gram: Data retention for one year for UK telecom companies (1.08.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.15/data-retention-UK (Contribution by Ross Anderson - EDRi-member FIPR -UK) ============================================================ 6. Google StreetView might breach EU laws ============================================================ The European Data Protection Supervisor warned that the StreetView feature of the Google Maps service could breach the EU data protection laws, if they show the pictures taken from the European cities. The StreetView service makes it possible for users of GoogleMaps to see several photos that show a 360-degree look on how the city streets or crossings are seen at a street level. But they also get in these pictures the pedestrians that are passing by or anyone in the area. The service is available right now only for some US cities, but Google has started the activities in order to get pictures from some European cities. Their fleet of vans with cameras has been spotted in London, Rome or Paris. The European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, declared during the press presentation of his annual data protection report: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this. Making pictures on the street is in many cases not a problem, but making pictures everywhere is certainly going to create some problems. I'm quite sure they are aware of this." Google didn't announced when the StreetView feature will be available for the European cities, but the service is expected to be launched next year. Hustinx warned the company that "Complying with European data protection law is going to be part of their business success or failure. If they would ignore it, it is likely to lead to (court) cases, and I think they would be hit hard." But Google was already taking into consideration the privacy concerns and announced that they developed a new face-blurring technology that would be perfected in the future. In a blog post on Google Earth and Maps teams, they presented the new change: "We're also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a year in the making -- working at Street View-scale is a tough challenge that required us to advance state-of-the-art automatic face detection, and we continue working hard to improve it as we roll it out for our existing and future imagery." Google also announced that they would delete the images from StreetView if someone complained and they think that these two actions should respond to some of the privacy problems already highlighted. Street View revisits Manhattan (12.05.2008) http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-revisits-manhattan.h… Google blurs the privacy issue (13.05.2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/13/google.digitalmedia Google map service could face EU lawsuits (16.05.2008) http://euobserver.com/9/26154/?rk=1 ============================================================ 7. Microsoft appeals the EC fine but faces even more complaints ============================================================ While new accusations have been brought to Microsoft, the giant company announced on 9 May 2008 that it has appealed, at the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg, the 899 million euro fine imposed in February 2008 by the European Commission (EC) for having abused its dominant position on the market. "We are filing this appeal in a constructive effort to seek clarity from the court," was the company's statement. The basic question of the dispute is the way in which patents and interoperability protocols are licensed by Microsoft to competitors. In February, Microsoft announced a series of interoperability initiatives that would provide more interoperability between Microsoft's products and those of competitors, including publishing all details of application programming interfaces for its most widely used products. EC argues that the terms of the licensing are unusable for open source software projects, as they are still subject to royalty payments. In its turn, Microsoft considers that the terms requested by the EC violate its intellectual property rights. On 13 May 2008, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) also filed a complaint to the EC against Microsoft's "anti-competitive licensing practices" after having previously made the same complaint in UK with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the British competition regulator. BECTA considered that the lack of compatibility between Microsoft's OOXML document standard and alternative codes, such as ODF, were deliberate as the giant "refuse to offer equivalent support for the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF)". Stephen Lucey, executive director of strategic technologies for BECTA, also stated: "It is not just the interests of competitors and the wider marketplace that are damaged when barriers to effective interoperability are created. (...) Such barriers can also damage the interests of education and training organisations, learners, teachers and parents". In its complaint to OFT, BECTA has argued that Microsoft supported its own technical protocols far better than it supported the industry standard ones. "This decision had the effect of requiring users to download and install a range of converters to enable them to interoperate with those competitor products" also said the agency statement. As a response to BECTA's complaint, CompTIA, an industrial association of which Microsoft is a member, published on 14 May a statement where it emphasized that "the working ICT marketplace fosters immense choice and solutions, which boost the overall interoperability and widespread use of competing ICT products and services". Although OFT has agreed on BECTA's filing the complaint with the EC as well, it has not yet given its decision on the matter. Microsoft appeals record EC fine (13.05.2008) http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107780 Microsoft's EU legal troubles continue (14.05.2008) http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/microsoft-eu-legal-troubles-continue… Education agency complains to Brussels about Microsoft (15.05.2008) http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9119 Microsoft challenges 899 million fine (12.05.2008) http://www.out-law.com/page-9108 EDRI-gram: Opera complains to the EC on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (19.12.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.24/opera-commission-microsoft ============================================================ 8. Recommended Reading ============================================================ European Data Protection Supervisor 2007 Annual report http://edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/Jahia/EDPSWEB/edps/lang/en/pid/22 ============================================================ 9. Agenda ============================================================ 27 May 2008, London, UK Surveillance, the Database State, Online Crime ... What Next? (10th Birthday Party of the Foundation for Information Policy Research) http://www.fipr.org/birthday10.html 31 May 2008, Germany Freedom rather than fear - Nation-wide action day against surveillance http://www.freiheitstattangst.de/ 30-31 May 2008, Bucharest, Romania eLiberatica 2008 - The benefits of Open and Free Technologies http://www.eliberatica.ro/2008/ 6-7 June 2008, Bremen, Germany IdentityCamp - a barcamp around identity 2.0 and privacy 2.0 http://barcamp.org/IdentityCampBremen 17-18 June 2008, Seoul, Korea The Future of the Internet Economy - OECD Ministerial Meeting http://www.oecd.org/FutureInternet 23 June 2008, Paris, France GigaNet is organizing an international academic workshop on "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction" http://tinyurl.com/3y9ld8 26-27 June 2008, London, UK International Conference on Digital Evidence http://www.mistieurope.com/default.asp?Page=65&Return=70&ProductID=8914&LS=… 30 June - 1 July 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium First COMMUNIA Conference - Assessment of economic and social impact of digital public domain throughout Europe http://www.communia-project.eu/conf2008 7-8 July 2008, London, UK Developing New Models Of Content Delivery Online & Innovative Strategies For Effectively Tackling Copyright Infringement http://www.isp-content-regulation.com/conference.agenda.asp 7-9 July 2008, Cambridge, UK Privacy Laws & Business 21st Annual International Conference http://www.privacylaws.com/templates/AnnualConferences.aspx?id=641 19-20 July 2008, Stockholm, Sweden International Association for Media and Communication Research pre-conference - Civil Rights in Mediatized Societies: Which data privacy against whom and how ? http://www.iamcr.org/content/view/301/1/ 23-25 July 2008, Leuven, Belgium The 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2008) http://petsymposium.org/2008/ 8-10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland The third annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) http://isp.law.yale.edu/ 22 September 2008, Istanbul, Turkey Workshop on Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications http://www.alpaca-workshop.org/ 24-28 September 2008, Athens, Greece World Summit on the Knowledge Society http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm ============================================================ 10. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 28 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 2.0 License. See the full text at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Newsletter editor: Bogdan Manolea <edrigram(a)edri.org> Information about EDRI and its members: http://www.edri.org/ European Digital Rights needs your help in upholding digital rights in the EU. 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Invitation to Future Internet Information Meeting July 29, 2009
by Fisher, Darleen L. 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

You are invited to attend an information meeting to hear about plans that CISE/NSF has to support research into overarching architectures for a Future Internet. Future Internet architecture encompasses the overarching structure and protocol-based interaction of network components with the wide range of networked entities, including security and trust, network management, the traditional layers 1 and 2 (technology use of and support for fiber optics, wireless networks, sensor networks, etc. insofar as they impact an overall architecture) and layers 3 and 4 (network and transport functions). Applications, web services, distributed content networks, real-time social interaction such as games, social networks over the digital communication network (as opposed to networks of people only), service delivery, etc. make difficult demands on the overarching architecture and need to be considered as part of the architectural effort. CISE calls for multidisciplinary research that addresses the question of how to design Future Internet architectures, understanding what is now known about requirements and mechanisms, considering lessons from the past, incorporating what is good, proposing new approaches where they are needed, and fitting these ideas into fresh overarching architectures that reach beyond core networking. In this respect, the process of design has been called clean slate in that the research is not to be constrained by features of existing networks. Information about the meeting: Reception: 6:30 pm 8:30 pm on July 28, 2009 Information Meeting: 9:00 am -4:00 pm on July 29, 2009 Location: Westin Gateway Hotel 801 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA Registration Site for the meeting: http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/nsf_find09.html The Westin is holding a block of sleeping rooms for this meeting. You may register for a room by clicking on Hotel on the registration website above and registering for a hotel room. The block of rooms is available until July 22, 2009 on a first come, first serve basis. Note NSF is not providing attendee travel support. This information meeting is being jointly sponsored by CISE/NSF and IPTO/DARPA. Who should attend? Researchers from the CISE research community who have a systems view with cross-cutting expertise that would be essential for designing a viable trustworthy Future Internet Researchers interested in evaluation of Future Internets Experts in security and privacy Experts in economics and other social scientists who have an interest in a Future Internet Application designers who want to impact what a Future Internet could enable and deliver Individuals, from other domains, such as law, biology, health sciences or application designers, and with different perspectives, whose knowledge and expertise can be brought to bear on the design and development of future Internets in the context of a range of scientific, technical, economic and social challenges Please send this email to colleagues you think would be interested in attending this information meeting. If you are unable to attend, the meeting will be live webcast and the webcast will be stored on the CISE homepage. Instructions for how to access the live web cast will be posted on the CISE homepage as well. For more information about research conducted to date on components of a Future Internet as well as papers, slides and activities, please go to www.nets-find.net ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com

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[IP] Invitation to Future Internet Information Meeting July
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 6.10, 21 May 2008
by EDRI-gram newsletter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

============================================================ EDRI-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 6.10, 21 May 2008 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. New open doors for software patents in EU 2. Updates on Visa Information System Regulation 3. The French Government goes against CNIL in biometric passports 4. BBA Awards Italy 2008 5. UK Government will store all phone, Internet traffic data 6. Google StreetView might breach EU laws 7. Microsoft appeals the EC fine but faces even more complaints 8. Recommended Reading 9. Agenda 10. About ============================================================ 1. New open doors for software patents in EU ============================================================ Even though the European Parliament voted against the software patents in Europe in 2005, new measures that could make software patents enforceable are still being discussed with the US counterparts or within the framework of the Community Patent. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) reports that a bilateral patent treaty could be agreed and signed with the United States by the end of the year. The treaty could contain provisions on software patents that will make them legal in both states. Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent policy specialist, explained for FFII: "Talks in the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) are the current push for software patents. The US want to eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single European SME in there." The substantive harmonisation of patent laws was one of the topics during the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) on 13 May 2008 between high level representatives from EU and US. TEC is a closed trade process and it is not the first time free trade agreements are being used by the US counterparts to promote their IP requirement - such as the TRIPS treaty. Also it is worth noting that after the failure of the Substantive Patent Law Treaty, the US has switched to TEC, a closed forum, to discuss the software patents issues with EU. FFII President, Alberto Barrionuevo, explains why the current approach is wrong: "The European Union does not have a Community Patent, neither a substantive patent law in its acquis, except the biotech directive. As long as there is no substantive patent law in the EU, it is quite silly to discuss about a bilateral patent treaty with the United States. Its like a blind showing the way for a deaf. If the USA really wanted to fix their patent practice they should first switch to first-to-file and join the European Patent Convention." But this is not the only open door for software patents. The European Community Patent, a patent draft law that would allow individuals and companies to obtain a unitary patent throughout the European Union, is still being discussed. Acording to a member representing FSFE, part of the CEA-PME SME Federation, that participated in a Working breakfast on Community Patent, a Director of the European Commission considered the possible adoption of the Community Patent proposal as the final attempt. Right now only Spain is openly against the project. Apparently, most countries were now satisfied with the proposal to have patents only in English, French, and German. Unofficial automated translations would be provided in the other languages of the EU, even though the EC representative acknowledged the general low quality of automated translations but said that the EPO had now developed some amazing new software for automated translations. The FFII representative also highlighted the EC software patents policy: "When talking about software patents, she constantly called them "wrongly granted" patents or "disguised software patents". This is consistent with the European Commission's position that software patents are not valid, but "computer implemented inventions" are valid. In reality, the latter is just a vague term which includes software patents. The European Commission's use of these funny terms and definitions makes meaningful dialogue difficult." McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty (13.05.2008) http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/McCreevy_wants_to_legalise_Software_Pa… Working breakfast on Community Patent (15.05.2008) http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/working_brea… Transatlantic Economic Council: objectives for Spring 2008 meeting http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/enterprise_policy/inter_rel/tec/doc/tec_obje… EDRI-gram: ENDitorial - Regulating the Patent Industry (25.10.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.20/patents ============================================================ 2. Updates on Visa Information System Regulation ============================================================ An updated version of the Regulation on the Visa Information System (VIS) published by Statewatch reveals that only random checks might be carried out, if there are too many people waiting. As already presented in EDRi-gram, the legislative package on the Visa Information System that included the VIS Regulation has been adopted by the European Parliament. The system will allow fingerprinting and checking security of all visitors to EU that apply for a visa in their home country. All the details, including fingerprints are held on the central VIS database so that on entry to and exit from the EU identity checks can be carried out. The VIS Regulation will allow consulates and other competent authorities to start using the system when processing visa applications and to check visas. The European Data Protection Supervisor has insisted on the importance of data protection in these situation: "The VIS database will be the biggest cross border one in Europe. Some 20 million new entries per year, regarding people who apply for a Schengen visa, are foreseen. It is of utmost importance that data protection is taken seriously for these, a priori, innocent people". After the last meeting of the Working Party on Frontiers /Mixed Committee, the new proposal from the Council Presidency says that if there are too many people to be checked and "all resources have been exhausted" then only random checks will be carried out. This implies amending article 7(3) which is making the verification of the visa holder identity and the authenticity of the visa compulsory, by consulting the Visa Information System (VIS): "By way of derogation, where traffic of such intensity arises that the waiting time at the border crossing point becomes excessive and all resources have been exhausted as regards staff, facilities and organisation and where, on the basis of an assessment of the risk related to internal security and illegal immigration, it is established that the consultation in the Visa Information System need not be systematic, such consultation may be carried out on a random basis for as long as these conditions are met." Another issue with the VIS database is the possible access of the US authorities to its content. The idea was rejected in a debate at the European Parliament where the MEP Sarah Ludford, rapporteur on the EU Visa Information System, asked for clear assurances that the US would not acquire access to the databases: "At a time of warnings about the frightening spread of the Mafia as well as terrorist conspiracies, why is the EU going down this blind alley of mass surveillance of the 99.9 percent of the public which is innocent, when the real need is to target the 0.1 percent of travelers who might be dangerous or criminal through intelligence- led policing and effective cross-border cooperation between law enforcement agencies?" Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of amending Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 as regards the use of the Visa Information System (VIS) under the Schengen Borders Code (25.04.2008) http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/may/eu-vis-border-checks-8674-08.pdf An EU push for US visa waivers to protect privacy (28.04.2008) http://www.neurope.eu/articles/85783.php EDRi-gram: European Visa Information System accepted by the EU bodies (20.06.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.12/VIS-EU-adoption EDRi-gram: EU Visa Database under scrutiny of the European Data Protection (2.02.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.2/visadatabase ============================================================ 3. The French Government goes against CNIL in biometric passports ============================================================ Ignoring the opinion of the French Data Protection Authority - the National Commission for Information and Liberties (CNIL), on 4 May 2008, the French Government passed a decree on the basis of which the French citizens will have biometric passports that will include eight fingerprints and a digital picture. The data will be introduced in a large national database. Although symbolical, CNIL's opinion should have been published alongside with such a decree in the Official Journal. The Government's decree went against CNIL's unfavourable opinion given on 11 December 2007 which was published a week after the decree. Alex T|rk, president of CNIL reinforced the commission's position on 16 May 2008, on the occasion of the presentation of the annual report of the commission. "We haven't been heard on two issues: first, we believe such an important subject should go to the Parliament and the, we have not obtained the elements allowing the justification of creating this database" said Alex T|rk. The commission considers that the biometric passport does not seem to be a useful tool in fighting document fraud and that the targets proposed by the government of issuing, replacing or withdrawing passports as well as detecting and preventing document falsification "do not justify the retention, at the national level, of biometric data such as fingerprints" and, therefore, the creation of such a database is a disproportionate measure. CNIL also draws the attention on the fact that the decree goes even beyond the European regulation which has in view only two fingerprints and says nothing about preserving the information into a central database. The system involves "risks of serious damages to private life and individual liberties" in the commission's opinion. CNIL reinforces its opposition to the biometric passport (only in French, 17.05.2008) http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2008/05/17/la-cnil-reitere-son-oppos… Biometric passports: unfavourbale opinion from CNIL (only in French, 13.05.2008) http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/05/13/passeports-biometriques-av… Biometric passports: CNIL against central database (only in French, 10.05.2008) http://fr.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080510/tfr-passeport-gouvernement-cnil-lead-… CNIL Opinion on biometric passports (only in French, 11.12.2007) http://www.cnil.fr/?id=2427 ============================================================ 4. BBA Awards Italy 2008 ============================================================ The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2008 were presented on 10 May 2008 during an e-privacy convention in Florence. The Italian jury is formed by 6 jurors who have to vote over 26 nominations, out of which 5 are for the positive award. The public institution award was received by the Ministry of Economics for its very ample checking instruments. The institution is not the one to prove the citizens are breaking the law, instead it requires the tax payers to prove they are on the right side of the law. With the excuse of fighting tax evasion, the institution has been recently empowered to create mass personal (bank, health etc.) data filing, an obvious and useless violation of the citizens' privacy. The award for the worst private company was received by Yahoo for the intensive monitoring of its users. Yahoo has provided the Italian Government with data of its users. In the case of the Chinese journalist Shi Tao, during a hearing in front of a US Congress commission on 11 November 2007, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has admitted and apologized for the action and for having previously denying the fact. The most invasive technology was considered to be the DNA Bank of the RIS (the Scientific Investigation Division of the "carabinieri") of Parma which was created "quietly" without any specific normative act. No details are known about the genetic database and there is an obvious risk of abusing the respective data. TV journalist Bruno Vespa was awarded the "Boot in the Mouth" price for having dealt superficially and therefore misinforming people about the Internet and new technologies. During a broadcast on 21 February 2008, as in other previous occasions, he expressed alarming ideas on the impact on privacy and the education of young people of the Internet in general and of the new technologies. The life time award was received by Franco Frattini, the former EU Commissioner for Justice and Internal Affairs and since 8 May 2008 the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, for having spread an idea of security that involves "monitoring and censuring dangerous words". "Winston Smith - Privacy hero" positive awarded was given to Autistici/Inventati team for its entire activity and for having provided, voluntarily and free-of-charge, for years, communication services that have observed privacy more than the commercial or institutional organisations. Autistici/Inventati is the hero of privacy (only in Italian, 12.05.2008) http://punto-informatico.it/2281258/PI/News/Autistici-Inventati--egrave--l-… Big Brother Award Italy 2008 (only in Italian, 10.05.2008) http://bba.winstonsmith.info/ EDRi-gram: ENDitorial: "Frattinising" isn't the only threat (26.09.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.18/frattinising ============================================================ 5. UK Government will store all phone, Internet traffic data ============================================================ An announcement on 19 May 2008 by the UK government may herald the next step in governmental attempts to grab hold of traffic data. Despite the strongly negative reactions against the EU data retention directive, which governments must transpose into national law by 15 March 2009, the UK government (which has been a key driver of data retention) now demands even more. Gordon Brown wants all traffic data - itemised phone bills, mobile phone records and Internet traffic logs - to be collected and stored in a central government database. The plan, which appeared in Monday's Times, has been criticised by the opposition as `more of a threat to our security than a support' while the privacy regulator said that `We are not aware of any justification for the State to hold every UK citizen's phone and internet records' and opined that the proposal `may well be a step too far'. The UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act already enables public officials to obtain traffic data from service providers, and has come in for recent criticism as the scope of its use has become clear. When it was passed in 2000, only nine organisations were allowed to use it but that number has risen to 792. For example, a local council has used it to check whether a child lived within a school's catchment area. In private briefings to ISP and telco staff, government officials have said they want to trace criminals' contact networks faster and more cheaply, and having all traffic data on one database will be much more convenient than having to make repeated enquiries of multiple phone companies, ISPs and other service providers. They also want to make global enquiries such as `show me everyone in the UK who sent emails at 21:07, 21:22 and 21:55 last Tuesday'. The ISPs for their part have complained that harvesting large quantities of data that they do not at present keep for business purposes will require massively expensive network re-engineering. There are also serious doubts about the UK government's ability to build a system capable enough to cope with billions of emails, texts and phone messages, given its long history of failed software projects. One argument behind the data retention directive was that a purely national system of data retention could not be very effective, as ISPs would simply move their operations to other Member States to save the cost of compliance. It remains to be seen whether the same arguments will once again be used to argue for centralised data retention on a European scale. It is also quite unclear whether a government database of all citizens' phone and Internet records is consistent with European law. `Big Brother' database for phones and e-mails (20.05.2008) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/ar… Anti-terror law used to snoop on fishermen (14.05.2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1952551/Anti-terror-law-used-to-snoo… Government orders data retention by ISPs (15.05.2008) http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9121 EDRI gram: Data retention for one year for UK telecom companies (1.08.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.15/data-retention-UK (Contribution by Ross Anderson - EDRi-member FIPR -UK) ============================================================ 6. Google StreetView might breach EU laws ============================================================ The European Data Protection Supervisor warned that the StreetView feature of the Google Maps service could breach the EU data protection laws, if they show the pictures taken from the European cities. The StreetView service makes it possible for users of GoogleMaps to see several photos that show a 360-degree look on how the city streets or crossings are seen at a street level. But they also get in these pictures the pedestrians that are passing by or anyone in the area. The service is available right now only for some US cities, but Google has started the activities in order to get pictures from some European cities. Their fleet of vans with cameras has been spotted in London, Rome or Paris. The European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, declared during the press presentation of his annual data protection report: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this. Making pictures on the street is in many cases not a problem, but making pictures everywhere is certainly going to create some problems. I'm quite sure they are aware of this." Google didn't announced when the StreetView feature will be available for the European cities, but the service is expected to be launched next year. Hustinx warned the company that "Complying with European data protection law is going to be part of their business success or failure. If they would ignore it, it is likely to lead to (court) cases, and I think they would be hit hard." But Google was already taking into consideration the privacy concerns and announced that they developed a new face-blurring technology that would be perfected in the future. In a blog post on Google Earth and Maps teams, they presented the new change: "We're also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a year in the making -- working at Street View-scale is a tough challenge that required us to advance state-of-the-art automatic face detection, and we continue working hard to improve it as we roll it out for our existing and future imagery." Google also announced that they would delete the images from StreetView if someone complained and they think that these two actions should respond to some of the privacy problems already highlighted. Street View revisits Manhattan (12.05.2008) http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-revisits-manhattan.h… Google blurs the privacy issue (13.05.2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/13/google.digitalmedia Google map service could face EU lawsuits (16.05.2008) http://euobserver.com/9/26154/?rk=1 ============================================================ 7. Microsoft appeals the EC fine but faces even more complaints ============================================================ While new accusations have been brought to Microsoft, the giant company announced on 9 May 2008 that it has appealed, at the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg, the 899 million euro fine imposed in February 2008 by the European Commission (EC) for having abused its dominant position on the market. "We are filing this appeal in a constructive effort to seek clarity from the court," was the company's statement. The basic question of the dispute is the way in which patents and interoperability protocols are licensed by Microsoft to competitors. In February, Microsoft announced a series of interoperability initiatives that would provide more interoperability between Microsoft's products and those of competitors, including publishing all details of application programming interfaces for its most widely used products. EC argues that the terms of the licensing are unusable for open source software projects, as they are still subject to royalty payments. In its turn, Microsoft considers that the terms requested by the EC violate its intellectual property rights. On 13 May 2008, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) also filed a complaint to the EC against Microsoft's "anti-competitive licensing practices" after having previously made the same complaint in UK with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the British competition regulator. BECTA considered that the lack of compatibility between Microsoft's OOXML document standard and alternative codes, such as ODF, were deliberate as the giant "refuse to offer equivalent support for the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF)". Stephen Lucey, executive director of strategic technologies for BECTA, also stated: "It is not just the interests of competitors and the wider marketplace that are damaged when barriers to effective interoperability are created. (...) Such barriers can also damage the interests of education and training organisations, learners, teachers and parents". In its complaint to OFT, BECTA has argued that Microsoft supported its own technical protocols far better than it supported the industry standard ones. "This decision had the effect of requiring users to download and install a range of converters to enable them to interoperate with those competitor products" also said the agency statement. As a response to BECTA's complaint, CompTIA, an industrial association of which Microsoft is a member, published on 14 May a statement where it emphasized that "the working ICT marketplace fosters immense choice and solutions, which boost the overall interoperability and widespread use of competing ICT products and services". Although OFT has agreed on BECTA's filing the complaint with the EC as well, it has not yet given its decision on the matter. Microsoft appeals record EC fine (13.05.2008) http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107780 Microsoft's EU legal troubles continue (14.05.2008) http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/microsoft-eu-legal-troubles-continue… Education agency complains to Brussels about Microsoft (15.05.2008) http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9119 Microsoft challenges 899 million fine (12.05.2008) http://www.out-law.com/page-9108 EDRI-gram: Opera complains to the EC on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (19.12.2007) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.24/opera-commission-microsoft ============================================================ 8. Recommended Reading ============================================================ European Data Protection Supervisor 2007 Annual report http://edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/Jahia/EDPSWEB/edps/lang/en/pid/22 ============================================================ 9. Agenda ============================================================ 27 May 2008, London, UK Surveillance, the Database State, Online Crime ... What Next? (10th Birthday Party of the Foundation for Information Policy Research) http://www.fipr.org/birthday10.html 31 May 2008, Germany Freedom rather than fear - Nation-wide action day against surveillance http://www.freiheitstattangst.de/ 30-31 May 2008, Bucharest, Romania eLiberatica 2008 - The benefits of Open and Free Technologies http://www.eliberatica.ro/2008/ 6-7 June 2008, Bremen, Germany IdentityCamp - a barcamp around identity 2.0 and privacy 2.0 http://barcamp.org/IdentityCampBremen 17-18 June 2008, Seoul, Korea The Future of the Internet Economy - OECD Ministerial Meeting http://www.oecd.org/FutureInternet 23 June 2008, Paris, France GigaNet is organizing an international academic workshop on "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction" http://tinyurl.com/3y9ld8 26-27 June 2008, London, UK International Conference on Digital Evidence http://www.mistieurope.com/default.asp?Page=65&Return=70&ProductID=8914&LS=… 30 June - 1 July 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium First COMMUNIA Conference - Assessment of economic and social impact of digital public domain throughout Europe http://www.communia-project.eu/conf2008 7-8 July 2008, London, UK Developing New Models Of Content Delivery Online & Innovative Strategies For Effectively Tackling Copyright Infringement http://www.isp-content-regulation.com/conference.agenda.asp 7-9 July 2008, Cambridge, UK Privacy Laws & Business 21st Annual International Conference http://www.privacylaws.com/templates/AnnualConferences.aspx?id=641 19-20 July 2008, Stockholm, Sweden International Association for Media and Communication Research pre-conference - Civil Rights in Mediatized Societies: Which data privacy against whom and how ? http://www.iamcr.org/content/view/301/1/ 23-25 July 2008, Leuven, Belgium The 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2008) http://petsymposium.org/2008/ 8-10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland The third annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) http://isp.law.yale.edu/ 22 September 2008, Istanbul, Turkey Workshop on Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications http://www.alpaca-workshop.org/ 24-28 September 2008, Athens, Greece World Summit on the Knowledge Society http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm ============================================================ 10. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 28 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 2.0 License. See the full text at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Newsletter editor: Bogdan Manolea <edrigram(a)edri.org> Information about EDRI and its members: http://www.edri.org/ European Digital Rights needs your help in upholding digital rights in the EU. 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