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Archive for August 20th, 2008

412 Internet Sites And Blogs Protest Internet Censorship: “The number of internet sites and blogs protesting the internet censorship in Turkey, banning of sites by court orders, has risen to 412. They darkened their pages to warn the authorities and public about the policies that make life difficult for internet publishing”

(Via Latest Bianet/English News.)

Copyright lawyers accuse 25,000 UK videogame filesharers: “

Court throws P2P users to the Davenport Lyons

The copyright ambulance-chasers at Davenport Lyons have a High Court order demanding 25,000 UK ISP subscribers’ names and addresses, it emerged today.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

UK.gov loses 29 million personal records: “

Magnificent year-long datachunder

UK government departments have managed to leak a total of 29 million personal records over a single year.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Web Sites protest access ban: “A campaign has been initiated by elmaaltshift.com to protest a ban on accessing certain Web sites in Turkey. More than 300 Web sites — some of which are among the most popular sites in the country, including the English-Turkish dictionary zargan.com and sinema.com — are supporting the campaign.”

The campaign lasts until tonight so as to draw attention to Web site access bans. Upon first entering the site, all the sites supporting the campaign read “Access is denied by its own [the Web site’s] decision,” in imitation of what the screen says upon entering a banned Web site.

Some of them, such as zargan.com, redirect those who want to access their content and who want to learn more about the campaign to other links. “We think Turkey’s Telecommunications Department and courts are prohibiting the Web sites in a somewhat arbitrary and extreme manner. In order to draw attention to the threat that freedom of communication is facing, as a symbol we are blocking the access to our Web site until the night of Aug. 20,” reads zargan.com upon first entering the site.

Web sites with content deemed insulting to Atatürk or containing pornography, vulgarity or the promotion of gambling or suicide — all crimes under the Internet Security Law — are prohibited, while other sites are banned for no known reason. The latest Web site prohibited was gundemonline.com, which was banned by Ankara’s 11th High Criminal Court without any justification. YouTube has been banned since May. Turkey is one of four countries that have blocked access to the Web site; Thailand, China and Pakistan have imposed similar bans.

(Via Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish news :: News.)

Tech giants near agreement on human rights code: “Some of the biggest technology and internet companies in the world have agreed a set of standards to protect human rights online that they hope the whole IT industry will adopt. The move could affect companies’ privacy policies worldwide.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)