Tag Archives: rights
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This Intellectual Property Malarkey is Quite Confusing
210 November 2008 by Ian Davis
I have through my “skill and judgement” interpreted where to locate the recycling centres, as they locations don’t appear on …
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Principle of Least Knowledge
120 September 2004 by Ian Davis
Ben Hyde illustrates the thinking behind what I’ve started calling the principle of least knowledge with an excellent privacy scenario: …
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Cursor Software Tracks Customers
Leave a comment3 December 1999 by Ian Davis
I’m a bit late with this one, but it’s worth including anyway. Apparently Comet Systems, who produce a free piece …
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Jail for your Privacy
Leave a comment30 November 1999 by Ian Davis
This is a little scary. The recently published proposals by the UK government on encryption policy include jail sentences for …
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DejaNews logging email
Leave a comment30 November 1999 by Ian Davis
This article suggests that DejaNews has been tracking users email and click thoughs so as to get a profile of …
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Advertising and Cookie Debate at Slashdot
Leave a comment26 October 1999 by Ian Davis
Slashdot are having a jolly old natter about cookies, privacy and advertising. Most of it is the usual dull rants …
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Gag Echelon
Leave a comment7 October 1999 by Ian Davis
Via TechDirt comes this Wired story about a plan to gag the world wide electronic monitoring system known as Echelon. …
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Zero Knowledge
Leave a comment19 August 1999 by Ian Davis
Zero Knowledge systems are signing up users for a beta test of their privacy software Freedom which encrypts and anonymizes …
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Deep Linking
Leave a comment10 August 1999 by Ian Davis
There’s been a flurry of activity on userland’s discussion forum on the issue of deep linking, or linking to pages …
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RIAA Drops RIO Lawsuit
Leave a comment6 August 1999 by Ian Davis
Via GeekNews comes this piece of good news: RIAA is dropping it’s lawsuit against the RIO player. At last they’ve …
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