Intellectual Property Law

global minilinks for 2009-01-25

By danny

• Swedish Police want Personal Info from P2P users
  Court orders obtaining info on file-sharers would be easier under a proposed new Swedish law.
• China's Porn Crackdown may be Aimed at Dissent
  Observers note that the Chinese arrests aimed at removing "vulgarity" from the Internet are part of a wider, political, dragnet.
• Australian Net Filtering is an "Insult to Parents"
  Opposition senator Nick Minchin on the disempowering nature of the proposed compulsory net blocking by the Rudd administration.
• Revolution, Facebook-Style
  Egyptian political activists are piggy-backing on social networking sites to get their message out.
• The Cost of Personal Data
  Obtaining information from ISPs to investigate child abuse in the UK costs the authorities hundreds of thousands of pounds: would more investigators be more cost-effective?
• Russian Government to be more Transparent?
  Proposed law would remove some limits on freedom of information requests from Russian citizens.
• Germany to Introduce Blocking
  Politicians pondering whether to make it a contractual agreement with ISPs, or a statutory requirement.
• How to Request your Travel Records
  How to demand what records the US government keeps on your travel.

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).