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- Facebook's Beacon is Super Creepy
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  A couple of hours earlier, I had purchased tickets to see Dark Knight at the Fandango Web site - Fandango.com. Fandango - not associated with Facebook. Yet, Fandango shared the details of my credit card transaction with Facebook. They did this despite the fact that I gave Fandango my personal email address and I'm registered on Facebook with my work address. So, sure - Facebook was giving me a choice as to whether to publish my purchase to my 297 Facebook friends. But despite my awareness of Beacon - and my 13 year history developing Web applications, I was creeped out in a visceral way. But then, even when I thought I told Facebook not to publish the information, it published to my profile anyway.
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- EFF sues Viacom over YouTube takedown of Colbert parody
  Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing
  Oh Viacom, you should read those DMCA lists of clips before you order them taken down: The video, called "Stop the Falsiness," was created by MoveOn and Brave New Films as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on Colbert's portrayal of the right-wing media and parodying MoveOn's own reputation for earnest political activism.
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- Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit
  Posted by Billbar from Wired
  The government told a court Friday that it wanted a class-action lawsuit regarding a lawsuit filed by the EFF against AT&T for its alleged complicity in warrantless government surveillance of its customer's internet and telephone communications dismissed, its lawyers used the state secrets privilege.
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- Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA
  Posted by Billbar from Electronic Frontier Foundation
  A collection of a number of reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors.
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- AT&T Seeks to Hide Spy Docs
  Posted by Billbar from Wired
  In papers filed late Monday, AT&T argued that confidential technical documents, which detail how AT&T diverts internet traffic to the National Security Agency and were provided by an ex-AT&T technician to the Electronic Frontier Foundation shouldn't be used as evidence in the case and should be returned.
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- EFF: AT&T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA
  Posted by Billbar
  "The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the hands of the NSA wholesale, in violation of federal wiretapping laws and the Fourth Amendment," said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston.
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- EFF Wins One
  Posted by Billbar from Electronic Frontier Foundation
  SunnComm says it will ensure that future versions of MediaMax will not install when the user declines the end user license agreement (EULA) that appears when a CD is first inserted in a computer CD or DVD drive. SunnComm has also agreed to include uninstallers in all versions of MediaMax software.
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