Four pieces of news in the past week show how little legislators and courts continue to include the Internet: Australia introduced data retention, Spain ordered the Pirate Bay censored, the Irish courts ordered people off the network, and Denmark has ordered eleven other blocked sites. The old guard actually seems to think that the net can be controlled, or has bottlenecks that can be controlled. They do not understand that everyone is equal on the Net and that suppliers are not anything like the phone companies.
First, and most alarming, the Australian Senate voted to introduce data retention. This - preventive surveillance of suspects to be - was in effect in Europe for ten years, but it was found to violate human rights in the most primary level (presumption of innocence, the right to privacy) by the European Court of justice in April last year. (The European Court of Justice can be described as the EU's Supreme Court). The Court went even cancel the retroactive law - not just say "this law does not exist", but to go further and say "this law has never existed in the first place."
Therefore, in this environment, whereas most countries say "Oops, my bad, it was actually a rather blatant violation of rights" and walks away whistling visibly embarrassed, Australia this breach site. what the AU lawmakers do not get is that to insist on your rights and avoid putting on preventive listening is just a VPN connection away.
this does not circumvent the law or to act as a criminal Rather, it is just a tangible non-recognition of an order to submit your freedoms at the door Ignoring such nonsense is absolutely essential;.. and legislators the courts will take all the freedoms they can afford to take right now. the technical means to preserve your privacy, the exercise of rights equivalent analog, are absolutely paramount.
the second piece new is that Spain has asked its Internet service providers to censor the Pirate Bay. Again, something that violates the rights analog equivalent - a court order requiring a utility to lie about directions? - And a little more, which is trivially fixed with a virtual private network. (In this case, it was fixed in minutes by users just switching DNS services to uncoated public service instead.)
Third, the courts in Ireland have demanded the UPC Irish implementing "three strikes" cut off all household Internet mass if someone in the household is violating the monopoly of copyright. This is really, really questionable from a legal point of view (collective punishment, and essentially send someone into exile in modern society) -. But just again, is easily defensible with a VPN connection
Fourth and finally, Denmark requires censorship of eleven sites. Guess what you can use to completely ignore.
privacy, as always, remains your own responsibility.
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