Yahoo has announced that after reviewing its retention policies for user data, it has decided to start anonymize data after 90 days. The last block of the ip address and the cookie ID will be erased. It’s important to note that even after this measure the data will stay to be very sensitive and the …
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Joris van Hoboken's blog, focusing on search engines and civil rights. Joris is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Information Law in Amsterdam, writing about search engines and freedom of expression.
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Yahoo Promises to Anonymize Log Data After 90 Days
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Mosquito (almost) Illegal in the Netherlands
http://www.jorisvanhoboken.nl/?p=238The Dutch government has written to parliament that the use of the Mosquito will not be backed by the government. In its legal assessment, the government writes that the deployment of the Mosquito, a device that produces a high pitched tone that annoys young people, infringes fundamental rights such …
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K.U. v. Finland: No Data Retention Obligation
http://www.jorisvanhoboken.nl/?p=236The European Court of Human Rights has issued its judgment in the case K.U. v. Finland. The Court concludes that Article 8 of the Convention puts member states under a positive obligation to protect people against grave interferences with their private life by others on the Internet. …
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global voices, one world
http://www.lokman.orgBlogroll Aaron Shaw Anne-Katrin Arnold Beth Noveck Bill Herman Charles Nesson Chris Soghoian Christina Xu David Sasaki Eszter Hargittai Ethan Zuckerman Jason Tocci Joris van Hoboken Patrick Meier Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Rebecca MacKinnon Tony Lambino
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Joris Asks Questions Without Easy Answers
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2008/12/07/joris_asks_questi...When I saw Joris van Hoboken last week, he asked two sly questions abut the Google Book Search settlement. First, what about the used books market? How many used book sellers will go under when the every-book-on-demand platform is up and running? Bringing a zero-marginal-cost
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Concurring Opinions
http://www.concurringopinions.comto admire the financial innovators at Bear Sterns and Goldman. Only time will tell if our faith in the mathematicians was misplaced yet again. UPDATE: Interesting perspectives from Mike Madison on "Googlement;" Blogrunner; and Joel West. And here's Slavoj Zizek at (and about) Google generally.
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Internet Freedom Alert 1.18
http://freedom4internet.blogspot.com/2008/10/internet-freedo...European Parliament has passed a resolution urging the European Commission and member states, "to safeguard media pluralism." The resolution also calls for, "an open discussion on all issues relating to the status of weblogs." Netherlands Study on Internet Filtering in the Netherlands A week ago an academic study (in Dutch, English summary on p. viii-xiii) was released on the filtering of child pornography by Internet providers in the Netherlands. The government's reaction is here. The study discusses the existing child pornography filtering schemes in
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Das Tor zur Information
http://www.hirner.at/archives/7030Network-Gatekeeper? Suchmaschinen-Optimierung Suchmaschinen-Recht Die Schere im Kopf Die Muster der Suchergebnisse Google ist von der Forschung nicht angetan Sehr interessante Weblinks dazu: “Deep Search” Joris van Hoboken netzmedium Govcom.org A Website is Gone, A Website Returns (911truth.org) prof.dr. R.A. (Richard) Rogers Tags: News + div. // Add Comment »
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Getwist en Gezeur - weblog Pascal Van Hecke
http://weblog.vanhecke.info- detecting installed software - detect favorite websites"Website Marketing SEO Score Tool Useful SEO assessment tool ( metadata, incoming/outgoing links, blogosphere, and many more measures). You do _not_ have to give your email address to use it btw.Amending EU Telco Laws into a Mess On the sometimes incomprehensible language that legislators (in this case the European Parliament in its revision of the telecommunications legal framework) produce. Do they understand it themselves?
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Digital Rights Ireland
http://www.digitalrights.ies challenge will succeed in invalidating the Directive. Whatever the outcome of their case, however, our own challenge to data retention - where we raise these privacy issues about Irish law as well as the Directive - will continue. (Thanks to Joris van Hoboken for pointing out that the Opinion had been timetabled.)
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Free the Mind
http://freethemind.blogspot.comså överklagade Irland direktivet till EG-domstolen eftersom att de menade att direktivet hade antagits genom fel procedur i EU (ganska konstigt dock eftersom att Irland var en av de drivande länderna i frågan). Nu läser jag på Joris van Hobokens blogg att ett utlåtande om direktivet från generaladvokaten kommer komm 14 oktober. Utlåtandet är inte bindande, men EG-domstolen brukar nästan alltid gå på samma, eller liknande linje som generaladvokatens utlåtande. Här är n&#228
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Planet Gnuheter
http://gnuheter.comså överklagade Irland direktivet till EG-domstolen eftersom att de menade att direktivet hade antagits genom fel procedur i EU (ganska konstigt dock eftersom att Irland var en av de drivande länderna i frågan). Nu läser jag på Joris van Hobokens blogg att ett utlåtande om direktivet från generaladvokaten kommer komm 14 oktober. Utlåtandet är inte bindande, men EG-domstolen brukar nästan alltid gå på samma, eller liknande linje som generaladvokatens utlåtande. Här är nästan alla även
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