EurActiv.com - Web inventor: 'Snooping' authorities threaten Internet | EU - European Information on InfoSociety
""Do you consider Internet access to be a fundamental right?" "There's a huge amount to be said in favour of making it a right. Yes, it's a right that comes after water but to disconnect a whole family would, I think, be...

Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data To Cops Over 8 Million Times (So Far)
An Indiana University grad student used the Freedom of Information act to find audio of a Sprint employee, who describes how the company has given away customer GPS location data to cops over 8 million times in less than a year. Ars technica reports that...

McCarter Theatre - FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN By Will Power, Directed by Des McAnuff
In the days before one of the most anticipated fights in boxing history, 23-year-old heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali formed an improbable bond with controversial former Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. Set in the heady times of the mid-1960s, after years of...

Copenhagen’s Missing Ingredient, Food, Water and Real World Issues
Studying the effects of the dropping water tables and food production for the next generations.

Legal protest guide updated for 2010 Vancouver Olympics - Vancouver Sun
A popular legal guide that gives advice on the rights and responsibilities for protesters has been updated for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.Vancouver lawyer Leo McGrady first published the guide in the 1960s as a three-page tip sheet for how to...

New H1N1 Vaccines To Be Grown In Dog Cells, African Green Monkey Kidney Cells, Worm Viruses And Genetically Engineered E.Coli Bacteria
Current H1N1 swine flu vaccine production primarily relies on growing the H1N1 swine flu inside of chicken eggs. However, that process has proven to be too slow to please vaccine manufacturers, so new "cutting edge" processes are being...

CTV Olympics - VANOC holding firm on controversial clause
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is calling on VANOC to pull what the association calls a "propaganda clause" after its existence was revealed in Wednesday's Globe and Mail. The clause reads: "The artist shall at all times refrain...

US wiretapping information release
From Chris Parsons:“Christopher Soghoian, a PhD Candidate at Indiana University, has released the information on US wiretap/pen register information along with documents received through FOIA that are inquiring into the costs that telecommunications...

Come avere 700 amici su Facebook e vivere felici
Avevo già accennato alla realizzazione di questo post parlando di tutt’altro: in rete è pieno di tutorial che riguardano la tutela della privacy su Facebook, ma ciò non m’impedisce di dare il mio contributo — ritenendo che possa essere comunque...

Todays fanatic, tomorrow's saint | Rebecca Solnit | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
It's popular to think the world gets changed by delightful people, a lot of the saints and agents of change are obsessive, intransigent, unreasonable, and demanding, of themselves and of us. That's what it generally takes to change the world....

ACTA - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties, for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet, legitimate commerce, and for developing countries’ ability to choose...

Odetta- "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"
Odetta Holmes, (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire...