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Leaked: ITU's secret Internet surveillance standard discussion draft
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:06 AM EST
boingboing.net/2012/12/05/leaked-itus-secret-internet.html

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: NAFTA 2.0 or Doha Revisited?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:10 AM EST
.PDF / 150 pages
http://ipolitics_assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/TPP-NAFTA-2- 0-or-Doha-Revisited_FINAL-.pdf

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Canada Establishes Secret Insider Trans Pacific Partnership Consulting Group
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:15 AM EST
A TPP insider group raises a host of concerns including questions about who has privileged access, whether civil society groups will also have access and be invited to join, and the extent of behind-the-scenes consultations with industry groups. While DFAIT may seek to justify the creation of an insider group based on the need for expert advice, the lack of transparency with the TPP is now exacerbated by a two-tier approach to TPP information with a select, secret group gaining insider access to information.

DFAIT should immediately disclose who has been invited to join the insider group, why it is has established a two-tier approach, and how it intends to ensure that all Canadians have access to the latest TPP developments.

Michael Geist

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U.N. summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 10:12 AM EST
Deep packet inspection standard adopted despite Germany's warning that it will "empower" censorship. Other uses: detecting BitTorrent transfers and identifying "copyright protected audio content."
A United Nations summit has adopted confidential recommendations proposed by China that will help network providers target BitTorrent uploaders, detect trading of copyrighted MP3 files, and, critics say, accelerate Internet censorship in repressive nations.

Approval by the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union came despite objections from Germany, which warned the organization must "not standardize any technical means that would increase the exercise of control over telecommunications content, could be used to empower any censorship of content, or could impede the free flow of information and ideas."

The ITU adopted the confidential Y.2770 standard for deep packet inspection -- only members, not the public, currently have access to the document

Declan McCullagh, CNET

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The Meteoric Ascent of the Patent Troll and the Devastating Consequences for Innovation
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 12:30 PM EST
It would cost more money than the entire US software industry earns each year just for each software firm’s lawyers to skim read the 40,000 software patents published in the US each year. Obviously this is a ridiculous statement, there are only 40,000 registered patent attorneys in the US so this cannot happen, leaving the gate wide open to frivolous legal suits from competitors and patent trolls.

In reality it seems, many patents don’t even get read. It’s almost as if we have taken our collective creativity and placed it in to a locked box where the main benefactors are lawyers and profiteers. In fact, there is no almost about it.

Neuro Bonkers, Scientific American

Neurobonkers is an anonymous science writer focusing on scientific controversy and the science of the mind.

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You are NOT a photographer, you are a TERRORIST !
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 12:40 PM EST
"Photographers are still being classified as potential terrorists in a newly released document from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI."

PhotographyisNotaCrime.com

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