These news articles make me nervous...

[starrylizard]

1) US studios avoided Telstra battle and went after iiNet instead in copyright case

2) The death of anonymity online has users fuming

3) Cybercrime bill on fast-track

I just hate that we seem to be moving more and more towards no privacy or anonymity on the internet and I do not want some person checking up on everything I download or do and reporting on it. It gives me the willies. I'm sure anyone who needs this information can and will be able to access it, as they do now, with appropriate reasons (e.g. the police).

Has anyone been following all these developments? Are similar things occurring around the world or is Australia trying to lead the way again?

Comments

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

The cyber crimes bill is the thing that disturbs me most. That they will be collecting personal emails and be able to access them. How can we possibly feel secure online now.

iiNet will fight to the death and I think they will win.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one scares the pants off me, not only because it's scary, but because the first I heard of it was last week. Why do these cyber bills just slide under the radar?

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

They were talking about it last year. Another one of Conway's pet projects.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought all of his pet projects already went through with all that firewall crap. :(