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Archive for August 12th, 2008

Tories call for more freedom for snoopers: “

Police nose bunged up with red tape

The Tory Party is calling for less restriction of police snooping because current laws are ‘placing a disproportionate burden’ on investigations of ‘volume crime’.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Turkish courts impose ban on YouTube

WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Turkey
Turkish courts impose ban on YouTube
By Kerem Kaya, 6 August 2008

On May 5, all access to the popular video-sharing web site YouTube was banned in Turkey. YouTube was banned in connection with a video that allegedly insulted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. The ban continues up until today and is the longest ban of a web site in the history of Turkey.

The decision to ban YouTube came with a frenzy of court rulings, first by the Ankara 11th Magistrates Court on April 24, then by the Ankara 5th Magistrates Court on April 30 and then by the Ankara 1st Magistrates Court on May 5. The last court ratified a ban that had already been implemented. Anyone trying to access www.youtube.com is greeted with the message ‘Access to this site is banned by the Telecommunications Ministry,’ citing the last two court decisions 599 and 402, respectively. Investigating media public prosecutor Nadi Turkaslan said that the ban will continue until YouTube removes the videos named in the court cases from all its international servers and establishes a branch in Turkey to answer to the local authorities.

This is not the first time YouTube access has been banned by Turkish authorities. The first ban was in March 2007. It was lifted within two days. A second ban was temporarily enforced in January 2008.
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Google tells Congress it’s not Phorm: “

‘Our users trust us’

Google wants you to know that in targeting online ads, it doesn’t use Phorm-like deep packet inspection. But it still refuses to acknowledge its own massive threat to the privacy of humankind.…

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(Via The Register – Comms.)

UK.gov pushes £50,000 fine for online copyright infringement: “

Clampdown on commercial piracy

The government has launched a consultation on plans to increase the maximum fine for traders in copyright-infringing material from £5,000 to £50,000 as part of a plan to protect ‘creative Britain’.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Global Trail of an Online Crime Ring: “Prosecutors say their own informant stole millions of credit card numbers in a case that reveals how the Internet is enabling new crimes on a vast scale.

(Via NYT > Technology.)