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[News] Sweden Stops Gross Privacy Intrusion While UK Defends It (the Ph0rm Worm)

  • Subject: [News] Sweden Stops Gross Privacy Intrusion While UK Defends It (the Ph0rm Worm)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:49:47 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Swedish government to soften eavesdropping law

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| The Swedish government says it is proposing measures to soften an 
| eavesdropping law after widespread public protests. 
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http://news.smh.com.au/technology/swedish-government-to-soften-eavesdropping-law-20080926-4o8f.html

BT to kick off fresh Phorm trial

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7641754.stm

BT Phorm trials begin again

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| The telecoms company was accused of intrusion as the Webwise system watches 
| everything you do online and serves up adverts based on your surfing habits. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/29/bt-phorm-trails-begin-again

Even the French stand up.

French to fight police database

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| David Reid reports on a storm brewing in France over plans to build a 
| database to hold details of people considered likely to breach public order. 
| 
| Civil liberties groups fear that the new police database, called Edvige, 
| would significantly erode rights to privacy.  
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7637586.stm


Recent:

Open source tour of Europe: Sweden

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| Other state projects include Apoteket Sweden’s largest state-owned pharmacy
| chain, which migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux at 900 pharmacies as part
| of a move to Intel hardware, and the Swedish Armed Forces’ deal with Red Hat
| to enable migrations from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/19/open-source-tour-of-europe-sweden/


Open source tour of Europe: France

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| This year the gendarmerie announced plans to migrate up to 70,00 workstations
| to Ubuntu running Firefox and OpenOffice.org, while Ubuntu was also chosen
| for adoption by French MPs as part of the migration of the National Assembly
| from Windows to Linux.
|
| Open source has also been adopted by local authorities including Arles, Grand
| Nancy, Lille, Val d’Oise, Marseille, Brest, Grenoble, Lyon, Rennes, and
| Marseille again.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/18/open-source-tour-of-europe-france/
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