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Body Scanners Might Violate U.K. Child Protection Laws
The deployment of body scanning x-ray machines could violate child protection laws in the United Kingdom and prevent their implementation, according to the Guardian . British officials were forced to exempt the scanning of anyone under 18 during a year-long test of the machines at Manchester airport until legal questions could be worked out, the newspaper said. There are also concerns that images of nude celebrities could be posted online or sold to tabloids.
Continue reading »2pm GMT today: El Reg Unified Comms webcast
Feeding back the Reg readers survey Tune in from 2pm GMT today as El Reg’s expert panel unveild the findings of our Unified Comms study and responds live Reg reader questions .…
Continue reading »Stepping barefoot on an earthworm
I LOVE the Net !!! Where else would you find this? “It’s in every newspaper,” says Blond Justice who lists her location thus —- Criminal Court : Big City : United States. In About The Blog, she says »»» I think if you even knew what city I worked in, it might not be hard to figure out who is the blonde public defender in pink suits.
Continue reading »Mininova Must Block The Pirate Bay and aXXo, BREIN Demands
This Tuesday the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer appeared in court. Mininova , operated by five Dutchmen who turned their hobby project into a successful business, were sued by Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations. BREIN’s lawyer Dirk Visser told the court that Mininova aids in the distribution of copyright infringing works, and demanded that the site implements “preventive measures” to put an end to this.
Continue reading »Ralph Nader: Internet not so hot at "motivating action"
For those of you who think that the Internet has heralded in a new era of grass roots political opportunity, prepare to be challenged by Mr. Participatory Politics himself. “Are big corporations afraid of the public use of the Internet?
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