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Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place

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| Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for
| leaked documents, is working on a plan to
| make the Web leakier by enabling
| newspapers, human rights organizations,
| criminal investigators and others to embed
| an "upload a disclosure to me via
| Wikileaks" form onto their Web sites.
|
| The upload system will give potential
| whistleblowers around the world the ability
| to leak sensitive documents to an
| organization or journalist they trust over
| a secure connection, while giving the
| receiver legal protection they might not
| otherwise enjoy.
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http://www.itworld.com/internet/80445/wikileaks-plans-make-web-a-leakier-place

Freedom Of The Press? UK's The Guardian Barred From Reporting On Parliament

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| Update: After this story got spread all
| over the internet (especially on Twitter),
| it looks like Carter-Ruck backed down. Of
| course... the end result? Much worse than
| if they had never tried to gag the
| newspapers. A lot more people are aware of
| the story. Why do lawyers still think
| banning such things will work?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091012/2150126495.shtml


Recent:

Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast broke EU regulations, 14 Sep 2006

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| (update Oct 12, GMT) Following press
| reportage about dumping off the coast of
| Africa, Waterson & Hicks, a UK law firm
| acting for Trafigura, a large London based
| oil and commodity trader, ordered and
| received this confidential report (the so-
| called "Minton report") into toxic dumping
| practices by its client along and on the
| Ivory Coast. The report reveals a number
| of toxic dumping incidents and appears to
| be the report behind the extraordinary
| secret October 11, 2009 gagging of the
| Guardian newspaper.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_dumping_along...e_Ivory


Guardian gagged from reporting parliament

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| The Guardian has been prevented from
| reporting parliamentary proceedings on
| legal grounds which appear to call into
| question privileges guaranteeing free
| speech established under the 1688 Bill of
| Rights.
|
| Today's published Commons order papers
| contain a question to be answered by a
| minister later this week. The Guardian is
| prevented from identifying the MP who has
| asked the question, what the question is,
| which minister might answer it, or where
| the question is to be found.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/12/guardian-gagged-from-repor...g-parli


Guardian Gagged from Reporting Parliament

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| According to the Guardian, despite the
| 1688 Bill of Rights, it has been gagged
| from reporting a question to be asked in
| parliament later this week. The gag was
| obtained by Carter-Ruck.
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http://order-order.com/2009/10/12/guardian-gagged-from-reporting-parliament/


Guardian Hiring Bloggers For Local News Network

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| There's now no doubt that Guardian News &
| Media is planning a local online news
| project. Despite parent company Guardian
| Media Group laying off almost 250 staff in
| its regional division this year, GNM is
| hiring for metropolitan "beatbloggers" in
| Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh for local
| news services set for launch early next
| year.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-guardian-news-media-hiring-blogge...in-card


Ralph Lauren And Its Lawyers Discover The Streisand Effect On Bogus DMCA Takedown

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| Boing Boing put up a post about it, along with the tag
| line "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis." While
| some have questioned whether the ad is even real, one
| thing is clear: Ralph Lauren was not pleased. The
| company's lawyers at Greenberg Traurig sent DMCA takedown
| notices concerning both posts. Despite Blogger's new DMCA
| policy, Google still quickly took down the post at
| Photoshop Disasters, causing the site to ask whether or
| not Ralph Lauren or its lawyers have ever heard of the
| Streisand Effect (yay). BoingBoing's host, however,
| doesn't automatically take content down and passed along
| the info to BoingBoing, who quickly pointed out that this
| was clearly fair use (commentary, criticism, etc.) and
| the DMCA takedown wasn't being used to stop infringing
| content, but to stifle speech.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091006/2245076436.shtml
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