Month: October 2012
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CleanIT opens doors
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris Last month, I blogged about the Clean IT Project. The aim of this project is to examine the question “if we can reduce the impact of the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes, without affecting our online freedom”, however a look at a leaked document revealed that…
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EFF takes up call of Bits of Freedom
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris I linked to an article by Bits of Freedom last week, calling for international opposition against the latest plan by minister Ivo Opstelten. The plan can be summed up in brief as “Dutch police should be allowed to hack local and foreign computers and destroy data on them”.…
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Dutch police to get access to DNA stored in medical facilities?
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris For an outgoing cabinet, our current ministers are certainly busy. Busy looking for ways to endanger our privacy, it seems. Just days after two letters from Ivo Opstelten reached the news, Dutch investigative reports for the TV program KRO Reporter have discovered documents that suggest that outgoing minister…
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“We must be free to insult each other”
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris If you’ve taken the time to read the page describing what this blog is all about, you will have seen that I describe myself as a free speech radical. I believe that free speech is absolutely necessary if a democracy is to function at all. I therefore believe…
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Bits of Freedom calls for international opposition against Dutch proposal
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris Dutch digital rights defenders Bits of Freedom are calling for international opposition against the latest proposal from Ivo Opstelten, wanting to grant police the right to hack into suspects computers, even across borders. In an article on their blog, they outline the cybersecurity risks related to this proposal.…
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Data snooping only catches ‘incompetent criminals, accidental anarchists’
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris British Information Commissioner Christopher Graham told a committee of MPs and peers last Tuesday that the draft Communications Data Bill as it stands would only put a stop to “the incompetent criminal and the accidental anarchist”. This proposed bill would give British law enforcement and secret service more…