International Law

Non-existent Law

Posted on April 11, 2008
I have been ranting repeatedly here against the idiocy of EU flight security regulations that are not published in the Official Journal, a practice that reaches almost American levels of contempt for basic requirements of democracy and rule of law. Now there is a case before the Court of Justice where the Court will have an [...

Sequoia Voting Machines Company Threatening Ed Felten

Posted on March 20, 2008
in an e-mail published on Felten’s blog here. That seems to be not a very smart thing to do. Why should any voter trust this company if they run around threatening people who want to analyze their machines? Sequoia should welcome and help any analysis by experts, since that is the only way to earn trust...

Gambling Probe

Posted on March 15, 2008
The EU Commission has taken up the complaint of a trade association that discriminatory enforcement of American laws against Internet gambling is in violation of WTO obligations. The Commission has started a probe of the question, which may lead to opening a formal WTO dispute resolution procedure...

$3 Trillion and Counting

Posted on March 02, 2008
Cost of the illegal war until now, according to Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz. For that kind of money, the Americans could have just bought the oil they are after, like everyone else. Stiglitz also notes that the recent sub-prime banking crisis was caused by this overspending, leading to the necessity of handing out cheap money [...

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FFII President

Posted on January 18, 2008
resigned.

Dumb War

Posted on January 16, 2008
Obama in 2002 (via Lessig). Too bad there is only an outside chance for him to actually become president. A couple of days ago I wrote that “there is still a small chance that the Republicans get away with stealing three presidential elections in a row...

Another Amazing Coincidence

Posted on January 11, 2008
in the results of the New Hampshire primary reported at Bradblog: We do note, however, the following rather remarkably anomalous result which was reported late this afternoon by analysts from the Election Defense Alliance (EDA). As noted by one of the researchers, IT Consultant Bruce O’Dell: Analysts at the Election Defense Alliance (EDA) have confirmed that based [...

Clinton Machine

Posted on January 10, 2008
Apparently, Clinton received a much larger percentage in machine-counted than in hand-counted votes in the recent primary that surprised everybody with a result much more favorable for her than expected. I don’t care much about which Democrat becomes the next American president...

Black America

Posted on January 01, 2008
The United States has received a grade of “endemic surveillance society” (the worst possible) in the 2007 International Privacy Ranking. A map of the world shows America in black, the same as China, Russia and the United Kingdom. The section of the report giving the reasons for that grade discusses a lot of American laws and [...

German Surveillance Law Constitutional Complaint

Posted on January 01, 2008
The law transposing the Surveillance Directive into German law was published in yesterday’s Official Journal and is in force now. The constitutional complaint by about 30.000 people has been filed at the Federal Constitutional Court immediately...

Next

Posted on December 27, 2007
I have just finished reading “Next“, the latest book by Michael Crichton. This is fun reading, like his other books. However, it also is strong anti-patent advocacy. Crichton does not believe in patenting genes, as he explains also in this New York Times op-ed...

Google Ruins Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2007
Great headline in this Slashdot Journal about the latest Google privacy disaster. Apparently, the good folks at Google have again introduced some ultra-cool new feature to one of their products without bothering to think about the privacy implications...

Refusing to be Afraid

Posted on December 21, 2007
Bruce Schneier links to a campaign that wants people to tell politicians to stop being afraid. They have this text as a petition: I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want you to stop being afraid on my behalf. Please start scaling back the official government war on terror...

Doctorow?s Google Story

Posted on December 12, 2007
Cory Doctorow has published a story on Google privacy violations, called “Scroogled”. It has gathered quite some attention; there are all kind of translations done already. Doctorow has also been interviewed in the Wall Street Journal about that story...

AskEraser

Posted on December 11, 2007
Ask.com has started their “AskEraser” service today. Costumers get the option to turn logging their searches off. An article on the launch in the New York Times  cites a doubtful analyst who thinks that this is no big deal and not many costumers will react to this...

No Copyright Remuneration for Printers in Germany

Posted on December 09, 2007
The German Federal Court of Justice has decided on December 6th that the legal duty to pay remuneration to copyright holders for technology capable of copying under Article 54a of the Copyright Law does not apply to computer printers. It is possible to use a printer to make a copy of a protected work...

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