Monthly Archives: June 2010

links for 2010-06-13

The Policy Laundering Project The United States and to a lesser extent the European Union are trying to force international institutions as well as less powerful nations to adopt a wide variety of bad policies as part of the so-called … Continue reading

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links for 2010-06-12

Government plans to monitor without court authorisation The federal government wants your personal internet data, and it does not want to have to apply to a court to get it. A revelation that the federal government wants Australia's 400-odd internet … Continue reading

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links for 2010-06-11

Delimiter – iiNet knew about retention proposal in 2009 iiNet this afternoon said it was briefed in late 2009 about a Federal Government proposal which could potentially see telcos required to keep records of web browsing history, telephone calls and … Continue reading

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links for 2010-06-10

Pornography Checks At Airport Are Ridiculous | Blunt Instrument Comments about the Rudd government going over board on blocking porn. First on they Internet, then at airports. Is the government obsessed with porn? (tags: porn censorship KevinRudd government BrisbaneTimes JohnBirmingham)

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links for 2010-06-09

Please Father Steve, unlock Telstra iPhone video calling The new iPhone 4 can now do video calls, but only if you are using a wi-fi network, not through the mobile network. Renai surmises that this is because AT&T' network could … Continue reading

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links for 2010-06-06

Filter Conroy Seeing that Stephen Conroy has no intention of removing has mandatory Internet Censorship legislation, this site will publish a guide on how to vote Conroy out of the Senate. (tags: StephenConroy internet filter voters election Senate) Does the … Continue reading

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links for 2010-06-03

No strong safeguards in HI Bill, says Australian Privacy Foundation … THE Healthcare Identifiers Bill will allow health authorities to link every piece of a person's medical information to a single number, without strong safeguards against deliberate or accidental abuse, … Continue reading

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links for 2010-06-01

Delimiter • View topic – Conroy just keeps on mis-speaking You would think that after his disastrous episode this week where he alleged that iiNet was in support of the Government's internet filtering project, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy would be … Continue reading

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links for 2010-05-31

Slashdot Technology Story | Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location Cell phone networks represent probably the most effective data collectors of all time: almost everyone's movements and communications are logged in some way by these firms thanks … Continue reading

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