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Submission + - Google Scans Gmail And Drive For Cartoons Of Child Sexual Abuse (forbes.com)

Jigsy writes: Over the last two decades, tech giants have had to deal with an ever-growing deluge of videos and images of child sexual abuse on their platforms. As Apple recently found out, it’s a difficult problem to solve, where scanning people’s devices and online accounts for illegal content can lead to concerns about privacy.

But it isn’t just explicit photos and videos of underage children that Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are trying to find and erase from their servers. They’re also looking for cartoons depicting graphic acts involving children, as revealed by a recent search warrant asking Google to provide information on a suspect who allegedly owned such animations.

Submission + - The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court (theregister.co.uk)

Jigsy writes: Blighty's freshly passed Investigatory Powers Act, better known as the Snoopers' Charter, is a dog's dinner of a law. It gives virtually unrestricted powers not only to State spy organisations but also to the police and a host of other government agencies.

The operation of the oversight and accountability mechanisms in the IPA are all kept firmly out of sight – and, so its authors hope, out of mind – of the public. It is up to the State to volunteer the truth to its victims if the State thinks it has abused its secret powers. "Marking your own homework" is a phrase which does not fully capture this.

However, despite the establishment of a parallel system of secret justice, the IPA's tentacles also enshrine parallel construction into law. That is, the practice where prosecutors lie about the origins of evidence to judges and juries – thereby depriving the defendant of a fair trial because he cannot review or question the truth of the evidence against him.

Section 56 of the act as passed sets out a number of matters that are now prohibited from being brought up in court.

Comment Interestingly... (Score 2) 320

A little while back I was watching this video of someone playing a newly released game he'd recently imported from Japan on his PSP. (The device and his his desk were in shot, so it wasn't footage ripped from some website.)
 
...It was removed on the grounds of "copyright infringment" by the developers/publishers.

I mean, seriously? Sorry, but fuck you!

YouTube really needs to grow a spine when it comes to copyright cases and at least determine if something actually requires removing instead of just doing it blindly.

Comment How about this... (Score 1) 575

I view the concept of sending someone to prison as torture in order to extract a password; and torture is a violation of basic human rights. (I live in the UK by the way.)

I use TrueCrypt to store my bank details and other important information (passwords, etc.) (Though I have been meaning to getting around to hiding my collection of hentai artwork seeing as "drawings are people too." *rolls eyes*)

That said, with files you can at least specify key files that must be used in conjunction with a password to view the contents of a standard/hidden file partition.

And while I don't want to give anyone ideas on how they could utilize this for nefarious purposes (terrorism, etc.), what's stopping people storing these files on Micro SD cards?; if the Police raid your place you could at least swallow the damn thing. (Though if you did this frequently it would probably put a strain on your wallet...)

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