This article in Foreign Policy is representative of accounts of the development and use of anti-Censorship/privacy enhancing technologies that only tell part of the story. While technologies such as Tor and psiphon are given great treatment, the frame used to contextualize their use gives the misleading impression that they are only used in “repressive” countries:
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November 10th 2007 
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After a request from Indian Law Enforcement, Google handed over the IP address of an Orkut user. The Indian Law Enforcement asked the ISP Airtel for information about the “owner” of that IP and Lakshmana Kailash K. was arrested. However, it turns out that Airtel did not hand over the correct information to Indian police, [...]
November 7th 2007 READ MORE 3 COMMENTS
The Privacy Commission’s blog has an interesting post about the protection of children online. The context is in terms of privacy and not the usual implementation of filtering technologies.
There are increasingly deep levels of intimacy between marketers and children – there’s a thin line between content and commerce
All the major children’s playsites comply with data [...]
October 10th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The Edmonton Sun reports:
The federal privacy commissioner is examining a public complaint over greeting cards sent from the Prime Minister’s Office specifically to Jewish constituents.
Several recipients have reportedly questioned whether the Prime Minister’s Office used government data to pinpoint Jewish residents.
How did the Prime Minister get a list of Jewish constituents?
October 10th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The Toronto Star reports that the Canadian government plans to tighten up efforts to fight identity theft by adding amendments to the Criminal Code:
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was short on details on the severity of the amendments but said sharpening the Criminal Code will give police better tools to combat the rapidly growing theft trend [...]
October 3rd 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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