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DEEPLINKS BLOG
MiniLinks by Danny O'Brien
January 25, 2009

global minilinks for 2009-01-25

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  • Swedish Police want Personal Info from P2P users
    Court orders obtaining info on file-sharers would be easier under a proposed new Swedish law.
  • China's Porn Crackdown may be Aimed at Dissent
    Observers note that the Chinese arrests aimed at removing "vulgarity" from the Internet are part of a wider, political, dragnet.
  • Australian Net Filtering is an "Insult to Parents"
    Opposition senator Nick Minchin on the disempowering nature of the proposed compulsory net blocking by the Rudd administration.
  • Revolution, Facebook-Style
    Egyptian political activists are piggy-backing on social networking sites to get their message out.
  • The Cost of Personal Data
    Obtaining information from ISPs to investigate child abuse in the UK costs the authorities hundreds of thousands of pounds: would more investigators be more cost-effective?
  • Russian Government to be more Transparent?
    Proposed law would remove some limits on freedom of information requests from Russian citizens.
  • Germany to Introduce Blocking
    Politicians pondering whether to make it a contractual agreement with ISPs, or a statutory requirement.
  • How to Request your Travel Records
    How to demand what records the US government keeps on your travel.

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