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DEEPLINKS BLOG
By Danny O'Brien
January 16, 2009

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  • Online Gamers in China To Register with Real Names
    No anonymity, even in MMORPGs.
  • South African IP Bill locks down innovation
    Public sector innovators will have to hand over their ideas to be patented by the government.
  • EU Privacy Watchdog: Protections Are Growing Weaker
    Data retention laws have weakened European privacy, says Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor.
  • Piracy Tax for the UK?
    ISPs and rightsholders will be asked to pay a tariff for a Net "Rights Agency" that collect and hand over personal data on repeat infringers in the UK, says the FT.
  • Vodafone's Child Porn Filter Blocks Innocent Czech Tech Blogs
    Czech users report that innocent sites are being caught up in a cellphone website blacklist.
  • Anti-Censorship Proxies Selling Data About Users
    DynaWeb FreeGate, GPass, and FirePhoenix all aggregate data on their customers and sell the information on commercially, says Berkman's Hal Roberts.
  • A Study of the Internet Censorship in China
    One blocked Chinese citizen experiments with the Great Firewall.

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