8 month ago
plasticbag : I'm deeply troubled by Phorm. This seems to be a service that could only be reasonably offered to a site owner, not an ISP... - I mean, otherwise, there's a precedent for surveillance where we just sort of have to take Phorm's word for the idea that they're not tracking personal or private stuff. It seems particularly sinister to me.
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Slightly more seriously, the Open Rights Group and the electoral commission looked into e-voting and found it was massively flawed. The Government doesn't care. - Deeply depressed by this one. One of those situations where very intelligent professionals work hard, independent groups agree with their conclusions and yet they're completely ignored by people with power.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : The UK Government has lost records pertaining to 25 million British people as a consequence of sending a few bits of physical media through the post... - A reminder—if ever there was needed one—that government is neither consistent enough in the long-term nor competent enough in the short to be entrusted with ever more information about its citizenry.
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13 month ago
Rod Begbie : Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka: Celebrating ORG's Second Birthday - Danny outlines the achievements of the Open Rights Group in the political and media spheres in the UK. I've been proudly sending them my £5-a-month since they started, and consider it a bargain. You should join them too. #
philgyford : Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka - Celebrating ORG's Second Birthday - The Open Rights Group is doing fantastic things for the UK online world. I joined when they started and if you join now the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust will match your contribution. Go!
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Nice Splashcast interview by Chris Valance of Cory Doctorow on whether ISPs should be responsible for identifying copyrighted works that go through their servers - Good, solid bits of argument in there. Cory speaks extremely well on these matters, clearly and without umming or ahhing. Unlike myself!
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Lord Justice Sedley has made the extraordinary statement that he believes that all of the UK's DNA (and the DNA of anyone who visits the company) should be permanently on file - This really is quite extraordinary. With such a limited sense of how such information could be used and abused in the future making a call seems completely indefensible, particularly in the name of fairness...
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Spot the Open Rights Group poster in new episodes of the I.T. Crowd! - I haven't really watched the show myself, but perhaps I should do so. Yay, Open Rights Group.
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17 month ago
plasticbag : The Open Rights Group (of which I'm an advisory board member) released its report on e-voting a couple of weeks ago which is well worth a read... - The conclusion is not positive, suggesting that while there are many flaws that could be fixed, fundamentally there may be very significant collisions between verifiable and trustworthy elections and e-voting as a concept.
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19 month ago
plasticbag : The Open Rights Group is looking for more board members... - Ideally people with a little spare time who are passionate and clueful about issues like copyright term extension, data retention policies, DRM and the like...
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Victor Keegan writes quite glowingly about ORG and MySociety - He points out that he hasn't seen groups quite like these in any other country of the world. I think, after some initial reserve about their first projects, it would be difficult for me to find fault in the work that MySociety have done recently. Bravo.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : The UK's "Open Rights Group" is now taking donations to support its work to protect digital rights... - I should add a bit of a disclaimer on this one, in that I've agreed to become one of the ORG's (unpaid) advisors. But still, I've donated my cash and I'm expecting all of you lot to do so as well...
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36 month ago
plasticbag : A Flickr photoset of the notes taken during the inaugural ORG meeting, designed to try and capture the major issues that people felt about digital rights... - Named, "Digital Rights in the UK: Your Rights, Your Issues", this gets to the heart of many of the core issues that people are worried about w/r/t digital rights, although I'm sure there are more. Probably worth annotating for clarity?
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