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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 03:41 AM EST |
Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians
and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an
electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.
Since last week,
Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones
informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they
are travelling together.
Agence France-Presse, Raw
Story
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Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a
School-Issued RFID TrackerA Texas high school student is being suspended
for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency
identification chip.
Northside Independent School District in San Antonio
began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in
the fall. The ID badge has a bar code associated with a student’s Social
Security number, and the RFID chip monitors pupils’ movements on campus, from
when they arrive until when they leave.
David
Kravets, Wired
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We Know Where You Drove Last
Night: Police
The information and privacy commissioner for British
Columbia, Elizabeth Denham, has found the Victoria police department is using a
license plate scanning system in a way that contravenes the province's privacy
laws.
Municipal police forces in Vancouver, Abbotsford and Saanich also use the
system known as Automated License Plate Recognition, and there may be others,
Denham said in an interview. The RCMP also has some 40 vehicles outfitted with
ALPR, she said.
[...]
"In my view, the use and disclosure of this
information for unspecified purposes would not be justifiable under FIPPA
[Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act]," Denham wrote.
"Collecting personal information for law enforcement purposes does not extend to
retaining information on the suspicion-less activities of citizens just in case
it may be useful in the future."
Andrew
MacLeod, The Tyee[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 06:23 AM EST |
| BBC Now that
particular case in itself may not be of very much interest to Groklaw readers,
but consider what Apple did despite a court order, and you will see that they
could well have been facing jail for contempt. You simply do not mess around
with UK judges, or their instructions, and expect to get away with it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: kuroshima on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 12:55 PM EST |
| US
PTO link
Is it just me, or this has been amply anticipated by most
sci-fi writers as Augmented Reality? because I could not see
anything in the
patent application (though I'm not fluent in
patenteese) that made it into
anything I had not seen in,
for example, Charles Stross Accelerando
(available for your reading pleasure under the
Creative
Commons license)... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 01:49 PM EST |
| http://i.imgur.com/4lJp6.png [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 04:59 PM EST |
"A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec
hacker Jeremy
Hammond this week ended with the 27-
year-old Chicago man being told he
could be sentenced to
life in prison for compromising the computers of
Stratfor.
Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom
on Tuesday that he could be sentenced to serve anywhere from
360
months-to-life if convicted on all charges relating to
last year’s hack of
Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, a
global intelligence company whose servers
were infiltrated
by an offshoot of the hacktivist collective
Anonymous.
Hammond is not likely to take the stand until next year,
but
so far has been imprisoned for eight months without trial.
Legal
proceedings in the case might soon be called into
question, however, after it’s
been revealed that Judge
Preska’s husband was a victim of the Stratfor
hack."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 11:35 PM EST |
A court in Hamburg, Germany, has granted an injunction against a user of the
anonymous and encrypted file-sharing network RetroShare.
RetroShare users exchange data through encrypted transfers and the network setup
ensures that the true sender of the file is always obfuscated. The court,
however, has now ruled that RetroShare users who act as an exit node are liable
for the encrypted traffic that’s sent by others.
https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-file-sharing-ruled-illegal-by-german-court-12
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- Ooops - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 11:53 PM EST
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