UK Technology Newswire Archive
Fighting the EU IP Enforcement Directive / Campaign for an Open Digital Enviro
18-08-2003 17:57
The proposed EU Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive is another nasty bit of big brother legislation. It will forbid Europeans from removing or deactivating Radio Frequency (RFID) tags embedded in clothing and other consumer devices, as well as giving intellectual property holders (ie CORPORATIONS) broad subpoena powers to obtain PERSONAL INFORMATION about ANY EU CITIZEN allegedly connected to an infringement of ip...Support Direct Action against GM
14-08-2003 01:33
www.greengloves.orgAfter five years of massive public opposition to GM and a nationwide public debate, Tony Blair will decide in October whether to allow commercial growing of GM crops.
EU directive would forbid removal of RFID tags
13-08-2003 12:58
RFID tags can be embedded in items you buy, and then broadcast information about that item to anyone listening. The proposed EU IP Enforcement Directive includes a measure that would make it illegal for Europeans to de-activate the chips in RFID tags. This would mean that, if you bought an RFID tagged item, you would have no way of preventing it from violating your privacy.Evening Std runs Story on Tesco Gillette RFID Chip Trial + Campaign
13-08-2003 00:38
Evening Std Covers RFID chip story / anti-campaign:
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/6181085?source=Evening%20Standard
CASPIAN LAUNCHES WORLDWIDE GILLETTE BOYCOTT
12-08-2003 17:48
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)is calling for a worldwide boycott of Gillette products since the
company failed to renounce a Gillette Mach3 "smart shelf" spy system.
News from Statewatch - 12th August 03
12-08-2003 15:48
Statewatch News online, 12 August 2003see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news
Unibombers' legal action to get back his autobiography
12-08-2003 10:30
TESCO tags Cambridge shoppers
09-08-2003 21:25
FlashMob Hack - subversion and clampdown ahoy?
09-08-2003 08:20
Hack the FlashMob... TACTICS + ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIAL ENGINEERING http://www.why-war.com/features/read.php?id=4 Are we approaching a moment in time when sending out a last-minute flash mob announcement will trigger a mob consisting of more cameras and reporters than anything else? If so, that could be a lot of fun in itself. Take advantage of this, people; it won't last...
Weekend Linux Workshop for Activists
05-08-2003 14:33
** A Weekend Linux Workshop for Activists in the UK **- Still using Micro$oft? one of the world's richest corporations, a major backer of Dubya Bush and globalisation.
New Labour in bed with Microsoft
03-08-2003 13:10
I am a teacher. I was appalled at the Government's Framework for ICT for a number of reasons but this article is about the way it promotes Microsoft.