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Tag Archives: Civil Liberties
Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom
Several countries, none of which is a finalist in the Freedom to the People sweepstakes, are considering blackballing the BlackBerry for being too secure… The better route for BlackBerry is to work with these governments to reshape their privacy policies in favour of citizen rights. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Civil Liberties, Communications
Tagged blackberry, Business, Civil Liberties, Communications, encryption, Information Technology, Privacy
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Library Manifesto
the risk of common cultural property becoming the puppet, through digital means, of copyright holders rather than the protectorate of library gatekeepers Continue reading
The Value of Liberal Arts in a Recession
The New York Times recently published an article, “In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth.” The division between science and the humanities is a recent contrivance, and its maintenance has no good historical precedent. The humanist training, the whetting of mental faculties that not only separate us from the animals but allow us to weigh and manage the fruit and potential fruit of our technical wizardry, is as essential to a growing society as the freedom that makes it possible. Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humanities
Tagged aristotle, Civil Liberties, democracy, economic crisis, Humanities, new york times, recession, sarah brophy, Virtual Worlds
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EU suggests reason and logic behind ACTA
According to the EU, ACTA will ignore “infringing goods [that] are not part of large scale traffic.” ACTA will also not force already taxed enforcement officers “to look for a couple of pirated songs on an i-Pod music player…” Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged ACTA, Civil Liberties, copyfight, copyright, MPAA, RIAA
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Victoria venue to infringe civil liberties
The Save-On Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria wants to take B.C.’s anti-smoking legislation a bit further. Not only will they enforce the existing No Smoking laws, they will also prohibit the innocuous carrying of cigarettes by patrons on the premises.
Possession of cigarettes is neither illegal nor dangerous per se. Searching explicitly for cigarettes, without the pretence (which I assume will be assumed) of searching for illegal or dangerous goods, is trespass to the person, bordering on the tort of assault. Confiscating those cigarettes is conversion; the Save-On Foods Memorial Centre is counting on your complacency and acquiescence as it invades your space and takes what it rightfully yours. Are they going to compensate you for the cigarettes? Return them at your whim? I doubt it. This erosion of civil liberties has gone on long enough. Continue reading
Servamus – Fearing the Image of the Vancouver Police
Drivers – non-criminal citizens from whom the police derive their power – are having their fear of being ticketed isolated, transformed into a fear of the police, and capitalized upon to drive a policy goal that in and of itself should never pass Section 1 muster.
Could the momentum of enshrining the police vs. citizens paradigm lead to the political annihilation of servamus? In other words, could the potential transformative effects on society of engendering a public fear of police be out of proportion with traffic safety objectives? Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humanities, Legal Explorations
Tagged big brother, Civil Liberties, democracy, fear, oakes, police cutouts, servamus, vancouver police
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RIAA and MPAA hijack the border (or someone like them)
Cyberion, at Tazzu, posted a link to the Vancouver Province story on the threatened border checks (ACTA) on the legitimacy of electronic media. (Cyberion’s post) I had some rather strong feelings, and ranted the following: This is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged ACTA, Civil Liberties, copyfight, copyright, DMCA, MPAA, RIAA
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