Preach!

Ignorant Legislators in Michigan. When lawmakers create stupid laws, they reduce respect for the what they do and injure civil society. With hardly any... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

3:11:03 PM    

TIA is coming...

Big Brother Is Watching You Shop. Commercial databases, such as credit card records, grocery purchases and hotel bills, are the latest pool of information the government says it has a right to collect. Merchants and lenders have been doing it for years. [Wired News]

7:22:59 AM    

Decent read.

Freedom, technology and the Internet. CNET News.com's Washington watcher Declan McCullagh explains why technological mechanisms protecting privacy, anonymity and free speech will always trump the whims of politicians, judges and bureaucrats. [CNET News.com]

7:17:26 AM    

This is what happens when you let movie producers write laws. 

Extra rust in the belt.

Brent Ashley has news of a new Michigan law that apparently illegalizes "simple possessoin of any device that does NAT routing," "running a Web proxy server" and other ordinary Net-related things.

Nutty.

7:14:52 AM