The Guardian’s Marina Hyde discusses the UK’s obsession with closed-circuit TV cameras , the rampant abuse of CCTV spy-cameras placed by local governments, snooping and treating us all like criminals.
For the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The normally thick ice formed over many years at the Pole has been blown away and replaced by huge swathes of thinner ice formed over a single year.
About a month ago, there were some amazing photos released of an ‘uncontacted’ tribe in the Amazon rain forest shooting arrows at an aircraft, which got us really excited. But it’s now come out that the tribe’s existence has been known since 1910.
It comes as a surprise to me that former South African President Nelson Mandela is still on the U.S list of terrorists. But some U.S lawmakers are trying to put things right by trying to pass legislation to remove him from the list on his 90th birthday next month July 18.
Christa Møllgaard-Hansen, owner of Christabella’s in the town of Maribo on Lolland bought six dresses from Pakistan for a value of $205, but her payment was frozen by the US authorities and the money seized because the dress manufacturer might be using the money to support terrorism.
Anonymous doing a recreation of the famous Iwo Jima picture. Flickr
Back in 1996, Cory Doctorow proposed that Google should build a network neutrality detector. And now Google has announced that they’re developing software tools to allow people to detect if their broadband connections are being fiddled with by sleazy ISPs.
Virgin Media, the UK’s largest provider of home broadband has said that it will spy on its customers and threaten to prosecute downloaders and sharers of illegal music.
From next week, Virgin Media will send letters to thousands of customers who are subscribing to their network warning them that they have either downloaded or shared music illegally.
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