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rdavison writes:
According to a recent aticle in ft.com "Internet users in France who download music and films without paying for them could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement backed by Nicolas Sarkozy, the president." The proposal originated with FNAC, you guessed it, an entertainment retailer. According to the article, the proposal has a good chance of being accepted.
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submission
rdavison writes:
According to a USA Today story, the terror watch list has swollen to 755,000 with 200,000 people per year being added since 2004. Adding about 548 people daily every day of the year does not seem to lend itself to a manual process with careful deliberation given or double checking being done for each person added. It seems to suggests that data is being mined from somewhere to automatically add names to the list.
So would this data be coming from? Given the recent disclosures such as this Washington Post articleVerizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders, especially since (according to the article) "The company said it does not determine the requests' legality or necessity because to do so would slow efforts to save lives in criminal investigations" we have to wonder how many other organizations are freely passing over your private information to the government with the same lack of concern for the ultimate use of that data, or that are easily persuaded by "Trust us, we're the government and we need all this private data to save lives.
