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26 October 2013
Yet More Security Reasons to Give Microsoft a Miss
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In the wake of Microsoft's dire financial results, it might seem a little unsporting to draw attention to more of the company's...
EU Kills Net Neutrality, Threatens Online Openness
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I've been trying to fathom what exactly Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital A...
Mozilla Comes under Attack - and of Age
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Back in March, I wrote about the odd little attack by the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Mozilla's pla...
Can You Trust Microsoft With Your Company Secrets?
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About a month ago, I wrote about the extraordinary fact that Microsoft routinely hands over zero-day exploits in its applications to th...
EU Copyright: The Right to Read and the Right to Mine
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A year ago the European Parliament rejected ACTA - a real milestone in the fight to bring some balance to copyright, since it was the fi...
Urgent: Please Contact MEPs Now for Spying/TAFTA Vote
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As you will have noticed, European politicians have suddenly become rather interested in the revelations about NSA spying now that it seem...
Latin American Countries Band Together To Fight Growing Problem Of Investor-State Disputes
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As Techdirt has observed, investor-state dispute resolution (ISDR) is turning into a major weapon that corporations can deploy against ...
UK Police's 'Ring Of Steel' Spying On Every Car Entering And Leaving Town Ruled Disproportionate
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The UK is famous for its abundant CCTV cameras, but it's also pretty keen on the equally intrusive Automatic Number Plate Recognition...
What Edward Snowden Has Given Us
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When Edward Snowden first revealed himself as the source of the NSA leaks, the Guardian released a short video interview with him in whic...
Two New Reports Confirm: Best Way To Reduce Piracy Dramatically Is To Offer Good Legal Alternatives
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At the beginning of last year we reported on a Swedish study that showed that streaming services had halved the number of people who wer...
Eli Lilly Raises Stakes: Says Canada Now Owes It $500 Million For Not Granting A Patent It Wanted
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A few months ago we wrote about the extraordinary -- and worrying -- case of Eli Lilly suing Canada after the latter had refused to gran...
German Minister Calls Security A 'Super Fundamental Right' That Outranks Privacy; German Press Call Him 'Idiot In Charge'
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One of the striking features of the Snowden story is that there has been no serious attempt to deny the main claims about massive, global...
Benefits Of Synthetic Blood Could Be Squandered Thanks To Patents
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Two of the key arguments during the Myriad Genetics trial were that gene patent monopolies stifle innovation by preventing others from ...
Using Patents To Needlessly Drive Up Healthcare Costs: The Economic Impact Of Evergreening Drugs
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One technique in the world of pharma that has started appearing here on Techdirt is "evergreening" -- making small changes t...
Leaked EU Policy Papers Show TAFTA/TTIP's Huge Challenges -- And Some Subtle Signals
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After last Wednesday's debate , the European Parliament passed a resolution on the subject of NSA surveillance , which included the f...
Dutch Libraries Go To Court To Make Sure They Can Lend Ebooks
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As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be...
Merck 'Evergreens' Off-Patent Lipitor By Creating Combination Drug With No Additional Benefit
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Big pharma often gets a rather rough ride here on Techdirt, what with its attempts to stop governments granting licenses for life-saving...
Controversial EU Data Protection Regulation May Be Negotiated In Secret In Breach Of Parliamentary Process
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Today, the European Parliament held a three-hour long debate on PRISM, Tempora and what the EU response should be. Many wanted TAFTA/TTI...
Turkish Police Shoot Down Surveillance Drone During Istanbul Protests
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As the growing number of Techdirt stories on the subject testify, drones are becoming a more familiar part of modern life. But their pr...
Iran's President-Elect: Net Filtering Doesn't Work... Oh, And By The Way, Human Rights Are Universal
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In the past, Iran has provided plenty of light relief here on Techdirt, whether because of plans to build its own Internet , or thanks to ...
Bolivian President's Jet Rerouted On Suspicions Snowden Could Be On Board; Multi-Country Outrage Ensues
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The Snowden saga continues to deliver surprising twists and turns that may well have important geopolitical knock-on effects. The latest ...
Germans Want To Give Snowden A Medal, French Want To Give Him Asylum -- And To Call Off TAFTA/TTIP
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Although nobody seems to know what Edward Snowden is up to at the moment, there have been plenty of reactions from others to the earlier...
EU Open Standards: We Want Actions, Not Words
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Open standards has been a recurring theme here on Open Enterprise. It's also been the occasion of one of the most disgraceful U-turn...
Turning the Sow's Ear of Surveillance into a Silk Purse
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On Wednesday I wrote about the Houses of Parliament deciding to use cloud computing solutions, despite the fact that we now know - not ...
Clear Thinking Needed in a Cloudy World
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Last week I wrote about the perils of using proprietary software, where companies regularly hand over zero-day vulnerabilities to the U...
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