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Submission + - Virtual Schengen Border - Great Firewall of Europe (edri.org)

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on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:17AM

webhat writes: "During a meeting in February 2011 of the Council of the European Union's Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP), a forum for cooperation on issues such as counter terrorism, customs and fraud, a disturbing proposal was tabled to create a "Great Firewall of Europe" by blocking "illicit" web material at the borders of the bloc with the intention to "to propose concrete measures towards creating a single secure European cyberspace.""

Submission + - Apple tells Patent Troll to leave developers alone (arstechnica.com)

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webhat

on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @08:26AM

webhat writes: "Until today Apple remained quiet about Lodsys' campaign to extract licensing fees from app developers using Apple's own in-app purchasing APIs. Apple senior vice president and general counsel Bruce Sewell sent a letter to Lodsys CEO Mark Small, insisting that Apple's license to the patent in question covers third party developers and that Lodsys should stop threatening iOS developers with "false assertions" of patent infringement."

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