Week In Review 2011W31
Facebook keeps up its ongoing campaign to become the govt mandated online authentication system by saying anonymity on the Internet needs to go away. Meanwhile Germany keeps up its ongoing campaign against Facebook by declaring facial recognition illegal. Germans don’t believe in full body porn scanners either.
I haven’t mentioned the Apple-Google-Oracle-Microsoft patent madness but Groklaw has a nice hash of it.
Breaking news: software written by the lowest bidder is bug ridden.
Finally justice is catching up with P2P cases by fining and suspending P2P ambulance chasing lawyers. Not only that but UK seems to return to the sane path by making personal copying legal again. Speaking of piracy, apparently some US ISPs are tampering with traffic and falsely impersonating websites. Isn’t that a Gitmo offense with PROTECT IP ?
