Have you attended a peaceful protest recently? The Guardian reported at the weekend that the Metropolitan police are storing the details of protestors on the criminal intelligence database, in some cases even where the person concerned has no criminal record and is not suspected of any offence.
via Corinna Ferguson: Public trust eroded by police surveillance of protestors | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
[ Just a few days after Yvonne Singh: Why are we fingerprinting children? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk ]
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word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA.
via Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?.
[ I think when I started using last.fm again recently, I asked someone if it wasn't just a very convenient way of giving the MAFIAA a nice index to sue users based on, and the idea was dismissed as insane 
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Russ comments:
Of course we work with the major labels and provide them with broad statistics, as we would with any other label, but we’d never personally identify our users to a third party – that goes against everything we stand for. [1]
Update 2009-02-23: RIAA has denied this as well. Which is why I’m seriously considering the chance that such a leak occurred… 
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Four weeks after birthing a nationwide Wikipedia edit ban, Britain’s child porn blacklist has led at least one ISP to muzzle the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – an 85 billion page web history dating back to 1996.
via Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history • The Register.
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