How long should we expect Google Keep to last? from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Close of Google Reader: Google’s Dark Side? from Global Voices Online by Sally Seward Last week Google annouced that on July 1 it will close its RSS feed reader service, known as Google Reader. Google Reader, like other feed readers … Read more
Victory Over Cyber Spying from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S 3414) Defeated in Senate Vote this Morning This morning, the US Senate defeated the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, a bill that would have given companies new rights to monitor our private communications and pass that data to the government. … Read more
New Cybersecurity Proposal Patches Serious Privacy Vulnerabilities from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman and Lee Tien For months, we?ve been raising the alarm about the serious civil liberties implications of the cybersecurity bills making their way through the Senate. Hours ago, we received some good news. A new bill called the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 … Read more
US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Michael Geist sez, The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report [an annual enemies list of countries judged not to be doing enough to police US copyrights] yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority … Read more