Wired News is reporting on a cease and desist letter sent to an independent news site by Belo, corporate parent of The Dallas Morning News, forbidding links to individual stories within the web site. They claim the author can only link to the web site’s homepage, and attempting to link to stories within the site violates their copyright.
If things move in this direction, the best characteristics of the web will be wasted.
Posted in Law, Media, Public Policy, Tech, The Future
Tagged copyright, intellectual property, law, media
I just got word that when I renew my driver’s license, I will have to submit to allowing the CT DMV to store biometric information, as well as smile for facial recognition software from Viisage to be able to continue driving. With national law enforcement agencies opening up their databases to each other, survailance systems such as cameras in public places will be able to identify my face and build a general path of the places I’ve been. Recordings of sufficient quality can probably be analyzed to build the path retroactively. Hmmm.
Posted in Law, Public Policy, Rights, Tech, The Future
Tagged big brother, biometric, human rights, justice, law, society
Dan Von Kohorn 