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San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder
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Airw0lf writes with a claim that appears too implausible to credit, at first glance: "If anyone remembers 'Fairlight' — one of the great groups on the warez scene, you may be interested to know that one of their leaders, Tony Krvaric, is now the chairman of the San Diego Republican Party." A similar report (on which the TorrentFreak story above draws heavily, and which is cited for the same claim about Krvaric made in the above-linked Wikipedia entry) showed up last week in The Raw Story. According to these reports, Krvaric is the same person known as "strider" in the Warez scene. I called Krvaric seeking comment; though he was unavailable, I hope he chooses to comment by email to help inform any followup coverage. A telephone receptionist at the office of the San Diego Republican Party acknowledged that she knew of the claims, but refused further comment, citing workplace rules. While she would not directly acknowledge or deny the truth of the allegations, she asked me to "remember, these are things that happened more than 20 years ago." Since some people have been penalized quite harshly (and some have been jailed) for the sort of large-scale software piracy that Fairlight enabled, it's interesting that Krvaric has enjoyed instead a meteoric rise in conservative politics.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/1754240&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/06/1754240"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/1754240&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=vxUa57"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=vxUa57" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/284861645" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-06T19:46:00+00:00republicansappears-to-be-the-casenews387387,377,284,227,59,37,24http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/1754240&from=rssACLU Warns of Next Pass At Telecom Immunity
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The ACLU has reportedly uncovered another pass at telecom immunity and is urging concerned citizens to speak out against what they call a "dangerous backroom deal." "But now, word comes that House leadership may be working hand-in-hand with Senator Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has spearheaded efforts to give immunity to law-breaking phone companies that provided mountains of customer data to the government without warrants. As discussions continue, it's critical that House leadership avoid buckling to pressure from the White House or Senator Rockefeller at all costs. House leadership — and every representative — need to draw a line in the sand, by rejecting any compromise that would undo the achievement we fought so hard for in February."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/2142255&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/05/2142255"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/2142255&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=A3UF2e"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=A3UF2e" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/284262851" height="1" width="1"/>ScuttleMonkey2008-05-05T23:23:00+00:00communicationstry-try-againyro200200,196,171,134,41,27,15http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/2142255&from=rssChina Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet
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jp_papin writes "The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged. The Chinese government is requiring US-owned hotels to install Internet filters to 'monitor and restrict information coming in and out of China,' Brownback said Thursday. 'This is an insult to the spirit of the games and an affront to American businesses,' he said. 'I call on China to immediately rescind this demand.' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he wasn't aware of those specific requests from the Chinese government, but Brownback said he got the information on Internet filtering from 'two different reliable but confidential sources.' The State Department is apparently continuing dialog with China about freedom of expression."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0257217&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/05/0257217"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0257217&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=irb5Wc"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=irb5Wc" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/283889802" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-05T11:53:00+00:00censorshipbecause-china's-an-autocracy-that's-whyyro276276,268,218,180,60,37,25http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0257217&from=rssAn Inside Look At Iran's Nuclear Program
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NotBornYesterday writes "On April 8, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited his country's secretive nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz for a photo op. What came out of this visit is a series of photos which have caused a fair amount of interest among western scientists. Shown in the photos are not only some of the inner workings of the plant and current generation of enrichment centrifuges, but also key components to newer generations of more effective centrifuges. Analysts are 'intrigued' not only by the technical revelations in the pictures, but also because Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar accompanied Ahmadinejad through the facility."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/2231202&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/03/2231202"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/2231202&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=lDNxhA"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=lDNxhA" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/282979959" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-03T22:39:00+00:00powerglowing-reviewsnews511511,502,394,306,64,25,13http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/2231202&from=rssBill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship
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Meredith writes "A bill that would penalize companies for assisting repressive regimes in censoring the Internet may finally be headed to a vote. The Global Online Freedom Act 'would not only prevent companies like Yahoo from giving up the goods to totalitarian regimes, but would also prohibit US-based Internet companies from blocking online content from US government or government-financed web sites in other countries.' Unfortunately, there's also a giant loophole: the president would be allowed to waive the provisions of the Act for national security purposes."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1543243&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/02/1543243"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1543243&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=IiF5KI"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=IiF5KI" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/282269800" height="1" width="1"/>ScuttleMonkey2008-05-02T18:09:00+00:00censorshipaccountability-may-make-a-comeback-after-allyro307307,303,260,202,47,18,8http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1543243&from=rssWhitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "We now know how the Whitehouse managed to lose about five million emails. It seems that they 'upgraded' their Lotus Notes system, which had an automatic retention and backup system, for Microsoft Exchange, which did not support the automatic system. So they changed it to a manual process, where aides would manually sort emails one by one into individual PST files, which they call a 'journaling' archive system. They're still building a replacement for the retention system. Right when they had one finished, the White House CIO complained that it made Microsoft Exchange too slow, so they hired yet another contractor to build another one, causing a senior IT official to quit in protest. So they still haven't completed the project after almost eight years, and rely on humans to sort millions of emails."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1359209&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/30/1359209"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1359209&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=pkG0mn"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=pkG0mn" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/280836688" height="1" width="1"/>CmdrTaco2008-04-30T14:48:00+00:00politicsupgrading-to-orwellnews482482,477,362,261,50,29,13http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1359209&from=rssHard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
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goombah99 writes "Princeton Professor, Ed Felton, has posted a series of blog entries in which he shows the printed tapes he obtained from the NJ voting machines don't report the ballots correctly. In response to the first one, Sequoia admitted that the machines had a known software design error that did not correctly record which kind of ballots were cast (republican or democratic primary ballots) but insisted the vote totals were correct. Then, further tapes showed this explanation to be insufficient. In response, State officials insisted that the (poorly printed) tapes were misread by Felton. Again further tapes showed this not to be a sufficient explanation. However all those did not foreclose the optimistic assessment that the errors were benign — that is, the possibility that vote totals might really be correct even though the ballot totals were wrong and the origin of the errors had not been explained. Now he has found (well-printed) tapes that show what appears to be hard proof that it's the vote totals that are wrong, since two different readout methods don't agree. Sequoia has made trade-secret legal threats against those wishing to mount an independent examination of the equipment. One small hat-tip to Sequoia: at least they are reporting enough raw data in different formats that these kinds of errors can come to light — that lesson should be kept in mind when writing future requirements for voting machines."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/1712215&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/29/1712215"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/1712215&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=qQ3Xv9"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=qQ3Xv9" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/280240617" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2008-04-29T17:56:00+00:00securitygot-some-splainin'-to-doit275275,271,213,156,39,22,10http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/1712215&from=rssLawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP
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An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes is running a front-page story about lawyers for suspects in terrorism-related cases fearing government monitoring of privileged conversations. But instead of talking about the technological solutions, the lawyers fly halfway across the world to meet with their clients. In fact, nowhere in the article is encryption even mentioned. Is it possible that lawyers don't even know about PGP?" The New Yorker has a detailed piece centering on the Oregon terrorism case discussed by the Times.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/003253&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/29/003253"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/003253&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=pvLHPf"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=pvLHPf" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/279727066" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2008-04-29T00:19:00+00:00privacyfly-once-to-exchange-keysyro426426,424,347,257,55,30,20http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/003253&from=rssHouse Republicans Renew Push for Telecom Immunity
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CNet is running an update to the controversy over giving telecommunications giants such as AT&T immunity from lawsuits involving the assistance they gave the NSA for illegal wiretaps. Republican leaders are circulating a petition which would force a vote on the bill passed by the Senate but not by the House. Democrats are holding out for a version of the FISA bill which opens the telecoms to prosecution. President Bush still intends to veto any such document. "At a wide-ranging House hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller again urged passage of a bill that includes immunity for phone companies, arguing that 'uncertainty' among the carriers 'affects our ability to get info as fast and as quickly as we would want.' He admitted, however, that he was not aware of any wiretap requests being denied because of Congress' inaction."<p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/24/0327221&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/24/0327221"></a></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/24/0327221&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=v2ToDE"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=v2ToDE" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/276731946" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2008-04-24T07:45:00+00:00governmentwiretapping-a-dead-horsepolitics123123,122,102,75,27,10,8http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/24/0327221&from=rssPentagon Manipulating TV Analysts
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gollum123 notes an extensive article from the NYTimes on the evidence that the military, since the time of the buildup to the Iraq war, has been manipulating the military analysts that are ubiquitous on TV and radio news programs, in a protracted campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's war efforts. "Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity of military analysts on the major networks, is a Pentagon information apparatus... The effort... has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air. Several dozen of the military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members, or consultants. Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks. ...[M]embers of this group have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. Some analysts acknowledge they suppressed doubts because they feared jeopardizing their access."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/22/2010243&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/22/2010243"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/22/2010243&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=WBUsC2"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=WBUsC2" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/275691001" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2008-04-22T21:31:00+00:00militarymedia-trojan-horsetech361361,355,285,219,82,44,25http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/22/2010243&from=rssRussia Announces End to Space Tourism in 2010
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epsas writes "On Cosmonaut's Day (April 12th 2008) the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) announced that they will cease it's $40,000,000-a-flight space tourism enterprise. Vitaly Perminov, the head of Roskosmos, elaborated on this statement by citing national criticism of the space tourism project; all the while reiterating Roskosmos's focus on the International Space Station and the new launch site at Vostochny Cosmodrome: 'Vitaly Lopota, the president of the Energia space rocket corporation, said he believes space tourism is a forced measure compensating for insufficient financing of the Russian space program.' This statement (made the day before) by Vitaly Lopota follows another announcement that 'Energia is ready to send missions to the Moon and Mars if told to do so by the government.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/20/218214&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/20/218214"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/20/218214&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=cGShch"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=cGShch" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/274317967" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-04-20T23:01:00+00:00spacewill-rely-solely-on-domain-name-salesnews9696,93,75,55,21,13,8http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/20/218214&from=rss.su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever
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CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes "Yahoo! Finance has a story about the defunct Soviet Union's .su TLD. 'Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising — registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community resisting repeated efforts to extinguish the online Soviet outpost.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/19/230208&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/19/230208"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/19/230208&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=Lw1kH4"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=Lw1kH4" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/273812998" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-04-20T00:52:00+00:00internetc-c-c-i-ptech188188,182,137,92,29,23,17http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/19/230208&from=rssChinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/272925819/article.pl
Bibek Paudel writes "Over the past few weeks Chinese bloggers and people on Internet forums have been reacting to events in Tibet and the protests disrupting the torch relay. The BBC and Global Voices have interesting insights on the recent happenings on the Net. A western commentator says, 'Lots of Chinese people now view the Western media, human rights groups, and Western leaders' criticisms of their country as part of the Racist Western Conspiracy to Stop China From Being Successful.' One of the most vocal appeals by the Chinese blogs, forums, and text-messages has been to boycott French goods in response to the protests that accompanied the torch relay in Paris. One response post reads, 'Who is abusing human rights? Who is bringing violence to this world?' There also are two versions of music video of the song Don't Be Too CNN, and its lyric has assumed the status of a cult catch-phrase. Sina.com has a popular page: 'Don't be too CNN, fire to the Western media.' Many analysts believe that the protests over Tibet have only served to strengthen Chinese nationalism rather than evoke sympathy for the Tibetan cause. Sina.com has a petition against the Western media which has reportedly accumulated millions of signatures. There is also Mutant Palm, a blog by an expatriate in China who has been watching and commenting on the fallout from Tibet and torch protests online."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/18/1332244&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/18/1332244"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/18/1332244&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=xVjGdq"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=xVjGdq" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/272925819" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2008-04-18T14:27:00+00:00mediaunintended-consequencesnews926926,921,702,468,98,53,35http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/18/1332244&from=rssSenator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
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mytrip writes "Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) has proposed an ambitious plan, costing on the order of $1 billion, aimed at curtailing illegal activities via P2P networks. His plan involves utilizing new software to monitor peer-to-peer traffic on an ongoing basis. 'At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it's "pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/17/1210250&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/17/1210250"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/17/1210250&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=dUJc0b"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=dUJc0b" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/272169526" height="1" width="1"/>Zonk2008-04-17T13:19:00+00:00privacykind-of-strains-the-mind-to-think-about-huhyro626626,623,514,338,85,45,30http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/17/1210250&from=rssConsumer Groups Advocate for 'Do Not Track' Registry
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eldavojohn writes "Consumer groups are asking for a 'do not track' registry to be implemented, similar to the successful and popular 'do not call' registry. Tracking companies are asking for examples where tracking has caused harm, and would rather the industry stay self-regulated. 'In December, the FTC approved Google's purchase of advertising rival DoubleClick over the objections of some privacy groups. At the same time, the agency urged advertisers to let computer users bar advertisers from collecting information on them, to provide "reasonable security" for any data and to collect data on health conditions or other sensitive issues only with the consumer's express consent.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/16/1839218&from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/16/1839218"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/16/1839218&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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