“A dossier will be kept of all children up to the age of 19 who come into contact with youth health care services. Routvoet [Dutch Youth and Family Minister] wants to prevent the authorities from ‘losing sight of them’. [...] There are special codes for ‘no pubic hair’, ‘light or dark hair’, or ‘curly hair’.”
See also: Alt. link, original article in Dutch (Google translation), The Minister of Pubic Affairs.
[via:No Agenda]
Sequel to Zeitgeist conspiracy movie coming in October
The followup will be titled “Zeitgeist - Addendum” (watch trailer).
I most definitely recommend watching the original movie, last year’s big hit among Internet natives. Ingested with the appropriate amount of grains of salt, Zeitgeist is, despite its length and other problems an interesting intellectual challenge and raiser of questions concerning the world we live in.
Zeitgeist, the Movie can be watched on Google Video or downloaded via bittorrent.
MEPs back ‘Soviet Internet’ plan
These pigfuckers really don’t want anything like a free Internet. More info by The Foundation for a Free Internet Infrastructure (FFII): 1, 2.
[via:Mummila]
Microsoft leading development of police state utilities
On his Wired Mag blog, security expert Bruce Schneier writes the following about the development of “kill switches”, different remote shutdown abilities planned for e.g. vehicles, airplanes and consumer technology:
“Microsoft is doing some of the most creative thinking along these lines, with something it’s calling “Digital Manners Policies.” According to its patent application, DMP-enabled devices would accept broadcast “orders” limiting capabilities. Cellphones could be remotely set to vibrate mode in restaurants and concert halls, and be turned off on airplanes and in hospitals. … This is really about media companies wanting to exert their control further over your electronics. They not only want to prevent you from surreptitiously recording movies and concerts, they want your new television to enforce good “manners” on your computer, and not allow it to record any programs.”
U.S. and Europe Near Agreement on Private Data
We’ll be out of privacy soon. How cool isn’t that?
“The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. … The potential agreement … would represent a diplomatic breakthrough for American counterterrorism officials”
Video: London deputied volunteers (”pretend cops”) bully videographer
“Watch the London community support officers (they’re not real cops, but deputied volunteers who fancy themselves real ones) as they confront a videographer who has the temerity to take footage of a public street. It starts with a sudden gloved hand over the camera lens, then it’s “give me a good reason why you’re filming,” then it’s on to “papers please”; and when the guy behind the camera, sensibly enough, asks under which law he’s not allowed to film there, the bully-boy hisses “shut up.”"
I wonder if someone was having a bad day or if this is the general trend in the UK.
[via:BoingBoing]
Döda politiska karriärers sällskap (youtube)
En parodi på regeringsarbetet gällande FRA-lagen. Inspirerad av “Döda poeters sällskap”.
The new Swedish wiretapping law is only the beginning. The same country’s administration now wants the police to confiscate/get access to a medical database of DNA samples of all citizens born during the last 33 years.
From the the blog of Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party:
http://english.rickfalkvinge.se/2008/06/21/after-wiretapping-a-national-dna-register/
“…the administration is now preparing a bill to confiscate the world’s largest scientific DNA register for the police.
Since 1975, every newborn infant in Sweden has had their blood sampled and stored in a huge registry, exclusively for medical research purposes, and particularly for phenylketonuresis (PKU) — hence, the register is called the PKU register. This register is something of a national treasure for medical scientific research. However, by its nature, it is also a DNA register.”
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“The administration just initiated the drafting of a bill to have this entire register confiscated by the police.”
Pigfuckers. Pigfuckers. Pigfuckers.