Federal Data Protection Commissioner criticizes eavesdropping compromise
"This contradicts the spirit of the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of March 3, 2004, which, emphasizing an absolutely protected core area of private life, declared significant parts of the previous provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure on the major eavesdropping to be unconstitutional," emphasized Schaar.
Well, the government, which is not even interested in the cross-party vote of the Bundestag against software patents, will probably not be interested in a judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court either - if it runs counter to their interests. And the Union - should the change take place - is not even satisfied with the measures and wants even more surveillance, even fewer rights for citizens, and even more data collection. While no criminals will be caught, political activism certainly advances one's career in politics - no matter how nonsensical the activism is.
The fatal aspect: our rights are not just being eroded - things that were hard and painstakingly achieved are being dismantled. These are damages that will probably not be repaired quickly - because once the data is available and the access possibilities are there, the state and the investigative apparatus will not want to back down. All this in the name of a pretended and alleged security for which there is no evidence.
Mail Act-On 1.3 is a Mail.App plugin that allows you to assign mail filters to keys. Additionally, there is a Quicksilver-like selection interface when you press a general hotkey.
The tool has a bug when used with a non-English version of Mail.app: when it tries to set the stop rule, it hangs. You can either create the stop rule manually (simply create a rule that starts with the same prefix as all other Act-On rules and set the action to stop rule processing) or disable the check for the stop rule in the settings - in the latter case, you should make sure that you have deactivated all Act-on rules, because otherwise they will also run on incoming emails if Act-On is not loaded for some reason - and they will cause all kinds of mischief with the emails.
So, now the Metablog on data protection, informational self-determination, RFID and related topics is online:
http://metaowl.de/
If you want to participate, there is a participation description in the Metablog. Just check which way is best for you and sign up. Somehow we will integrate every content provider. A list of participating blogs and sources used is also online.
Of course, it works best and easiest if you can provide an RSS feed for your category - then I can directly take over the entries. But Technorati tags, blogg.de tags, del.icio.us tags (if you just want to provide pointers to interesting sites) or trackbacks also work. We just need something from which we can somehow extract an RSS feed (Atom is also fine), then it will work. If necessary, a script will be written that generates an RSS feed.
And one more request: feel free to link to the Metablog. It could use a bit of Google juice, we don't want only the cheerleading articles to be found when searching for data protection-related topics, do we?
And for those who just want to inform themselves about the topic: the Metablog has an RSS feed through which you will receive all the collected news. Or browse the archives - the search searches the full texts of the postings (of course only if the blog's RSS feed has provided them) - http://metaowl.de/ can therefore also be used as an interesting archive in the long run.
Alex King has a nice plugin for WordPress: the Popularity Contest. This collects and calculates various values for posts and determines which are the most popular. I've integrated it into my sidebar (below the images). In addition to the tags for embedding in the template, it also provides a wealth of information on a subpage of the WordPress admin homepage. There you can view popularity by category or type of metric. Let's see how the values develop.
The Federal Government's Commissioner for Human Rights criticizes Russia and China in his human rights report - and yet the Chancellor of Industry has just kissed Wladimir and wants to do business with China ...
Zabel must make way for Ullrich - say Kummer and Ludwig. If you ask me: stupid idea. Zabel would also be good as a lone fighter for some show. Well, let's hope for Vinokourov.