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p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- To the tune of £10 million (about $C16,973,183), the European Union is backing Project Indect , a five-year spy plan whose principal function would be to secretly monitor almost every aspect of the lives of EU citizens. Says Wikileaks , “This file, marked ‘confidential’, describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system (’INDECT work package 4′) designed to comb webblogs, chat sites, newsreports, and social-networking sites to inorder to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.” It goes on »»» The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of key technologies that facilitate the building of an intelligence gathering system by combining and extending the current-state-ofthe- art methods in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the goals of WP4 is to propose NLP and machine learning methods that learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- A couple of years ago I wrote about my life as a ‘neo-nomad’, one of the growing number of people who use digital technologies to allow them to work from anywhere, living with ‘no office, colleagues who are largely engaged with online and often a number of overlapping projects to be juggled and managed at the same time’. It was a pattern of life that had emerged for me over years of being freelance as I put more and more of my work on a laptop and found that I could generally rely on being connected to the Internet when I needed to be, initially over dialup lines ‘borrowed’ from amenable friends, then via open wireless networks, and now thanks to the good graces of my 3G dongle.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- A couple of years ago I wrote about my life as a ‘neo-nomad’, one of the growing number of people who use digital technologies to allow them to work from anywhere, living with ‘no office, colleagues who are largely engaged with online and often a number of overlapping projects to be juggled and managed at the same time’. It was a pattern of life that had emerged for me over years of being freelance as I put more and more of my work on a laptop and found that I could generally rely on being connected to the Internet when I needed to be, initially over dialup lines ‘borrowed’ from amenable friends, then via open wireless networks, and now thanks to the good graces of my 3G dongle. I also benefited greatly from the workings of Moore’s Law as the laptops I owned became more and more powerful, so that the machine I use today is faster and has a lot more memory than the four-year old desktop it replaced, while my mobile phone outstrips my old Vaio laptop on every scale except screen size.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “The moment you hear someone warning about stark changes as a consequence of net neutrality, you know they’ve got it wrong,” says networking and protocol expert Robb Topolski. He was talking about recent remarks from Mark Cuban who apparently believes the  net will slow to a pinful crawl if net neutrality becomes the accepted norm. “Net neutrality is about preserving the Internet’s design for ISPs to forward packets toward their destination as fast as they can, without first inspecting the content for ‘management’ purposes,” Topolski told p2pnet

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p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- Another anti-P2P hard-liner has been appointed to high office in the Obama administration. In a move praised, surprisingly, by Public Knowledge president and co-founder Gigi B. Sohn, Victoria Espinel has been nominated as America’s new IP czar, or Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, as she’ll be officially known.

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p2pnet news view | Freedom:- In an enormous screw-up, the Rocky Mountain Bank in Wilson, Wyoming, sent highly private and confidential information on 1,300 customers to a Google mail address. Although the Gmail user hasn’t been accused of doing anything wrong, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the account, says MediaPost

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