The European Parliament services denied the existence of ACTA documents four times
The European Parliament services denied the existence of INTA coordinators’ minutes (regarding ACTA) four times. Under EU law, Institutions can refuse access to documents in some cases. But EU law does not provide a possibility to deny or obfuscate the existence of documents. See our 5 October letter to the INTA secretariat. Dear INTA secretariat,I would like to kindly thank you for your elaborate answer to my request for information and documents. However, there are still some issues.
ACTA: The new threat to the net
2,008,307 have signed. Help us get to our new target of 3,000,000 Update: 10 February 2012 Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. It's outrageous -- governments of four fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. Big corporate interests are pushing hard for this, but the EU Parliament stands in the way.
Lawmakers disagree on need for online privacy legislation - World Privacy Forum, U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, security, Scott Meyer, Regulation, privacy, Pete Olson, Pam Dixon, Microsoft, Michael Hintze, Marsha Blackburn, L
While representatives of the online advertising industry questioned whether new laws are needed to protect consumer privacy online, several U.S. lawmakers on Thursday called for new regulations targeting online tracking. Members of the commerce subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee were split on whether Congress should pass new privacy legislation, including regulations limiting online tracking by websites and advertising networks. New legislation isn't needed because online advertising groups have created their own sets of rules that allow Web users to opt out of targeted advertising based on surfing habits, said Linda Woolley, executive vice president of the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group representing online advertisers. Online companies can do a better job of protecting consumer privacy than the government can, she said during a subcommittee hearing on consumer attitudes about online privacy.
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Acta: Key EU votes due on controversial piracy treaty
31 May 2012Last updated at 12:58 GMT By Dave Lee Technology reporter After the votes the European Parliament will have the final say on the future of Acta Three key EU committees have voted against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta). The treaty, which aims to curb piracy, was rejected by committees tasked with assessing its legality and impact on civil liberties and industry. To date 22 member states, including the UK, have signed the treaty - but it is yet to be formally ratified. The European Parliament will make its final decision on Acta in July. If it passes, work to bring the agreement into force across the EU will continue. If the European Parliament votes to reject Acta, the treaty will be scrapped entirely. While the agreement covers the counterfeiting of physical items, such as pharmaceuticals, it is the measures relating to pirated material on the internet that have caused most concern among campaigners. 'Potential threats' Continue reading the main story
Une tyrannie du droit d’auteur nommée ACTA
Un traité commercial, Acta, propose d'entériner la vision du droit d'auteur des industries culturelles à l'échelle internationale. Retour avec deux députés européennes sur ses conséquences, et le rôle de l'Union dans les négociations. Un nouveau traité international menace de transformer en profondeur la législation sur le droit d’auteur. Le premier octobre, les États-Unis, l’Australie, le Canada, le Japon, la Corée du Sud, la Nouvelle-Zélande, Singapour et le Maroc ont signé l’Anti-conterfeinting trade agreement (Acta). Cet accord commercial vise à lutter contre la contrefaçon à l’échelle mondiale en renforçant les législations ayant trait à la propriété intellectuelle des États signataires. La ratification de l’accord par l’Union Européenne prendra du temps, et passera nécessairement par un vote des parlements nationaux ainsi qu’au Parlement européen. Acta, une menace pour les libertés? Catherine Trautmann souligne de son côté que l’Acta s’apparente à une Hadopi “deuxième génération”:
should social scientists stop reading the news?
A long time ago, in graduate school, my television was stolen and it changed my life. I now had lots of free time. I never understood on a gut level what I was missing until my tv was gone. There was a whole world beyond my living room low rent studio apartment. Jacob Levy once told me during a party, “Fabio, if you don’t watch tv, you had better be very well read.” Indeed, fair ranger, I am now quite well read. I learned a second lesson. Later, I realized that the issue wasn’t drama or comedy. You don’t need to be a die hard Chomskian who believes that the media is a mere tool of corporate and state interests, although that does happen to fair degree. Example 1: Local television news is driven by “if it bleeds, it leads.” Example 2: Election coverage is highly misleading. Example 3: Let’s stick one of my research areas – higher education. The news is rife with stories that are at best misleading and at worst factually incorrect. Adverts: From Black Power/Grad Skool Rulz Like this:
Twitter Censoring ALL My Tweets & I'm NOT Alone
I am really disheartened. Is this happening to anyone else? It took awhile to catch on, but it's true. None of my tweets show up in the hashtag, word, or @ streams. Twitter has a search feature I call Twearch. MY TWEETS ARE BEING CENSORED/BLOCKED except in the "home" list. Even retweets of my tweets rarely show up. WarOnErrorDKos War on Error #donaldduck @donaldduck donaldduck 11 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete Oddly, this retweet just showed up. AMHateRadio AM:Hate Radio Inc. @ @WarOnErrorDKos @AIPAC @Netanyahu Note:Iran There's A Jewish Community Of About 25,000 Israelis Who Might Be Put In Danger By Any Operation So, kossack friends, will you see if your tweets are being censored/blocked by twitter, too? Thanks. lcranston1939 Lamont Cranston @ @WarOnErrorDKos I was beginning to wonder about that. This RETWEET made it through soynicay Ruth “@WarOnErrorDKos MY TWEETS are being censored by twitter. Confirmation that my tweets are being censored/blocked BetoMetroDos Robert A.
