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Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry
Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice. Atlanta criminal defense attorney Ann Marie Fitz estimated that perhaps thousands of convicts convicted of non-sexual crimes have been placed in sex-offender databases. Fitz represents a convict who was charged with false imprisonment when he was 18 for briefly detaining a 17-year-old girl during a soured drug deal.
Continue reading »Iconic Pirate Bay Ship Logo Hijacked By Private Company
The Internet has many great and well-known trademarks. There can hardly be a web user anywhere in the world who has never seen the red, yellow, blue and green of Google’s logo, and millions every day skip past the same-colored staggered lettering of auction site, eBay. Those very same colors are used in the window representation used by Microsoft.
Continue reading »Britain has its own Pirate Party: official
To the Korporate Kopyright Klans, Pirate Parties were something to be laughed at. A joke. But not any more —- not since the Swedish Pirate Party sent elected Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström to the European Parliament.
Continue reading »Researcher: Middle East Blackberry Update Spies on Users
A Blackberry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, according to a researcher who examined it. The update was billed as a “performance enhancement patch” by the UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat , which issued the patch for its 100,000 subscribers. The patch only drew attention after numerous users complained that it drained their Blackberry battery and slowed performance, according to local publication ITP .
Continue reading »Election Official Moonlights as Political Consultant to Republican Candidates
A Texas registrar of voters has been working a second job selling voter data and campaign services to Republican campaigns, according to local news reports . Ed Johnson, the associate registrar of voters in Harris County, is the paid director of a small political consulting firm called Computer Data Systems, which he launched in 2003 with a Republican state representative. The company sold $140,000 worth of voter data and election services to Republican politicians and campaigns in 2008, which included conducting targeted mailings on behalf of clients.
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