Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office (IOCCO)

interesting article with a long title: caspar bowden, closed circuit television for inside your head: blanket traffic data retention and the emergency anti terrorism legislation, 2002

in 2013 he was invited to brief the eu parliament, talking about the impact of the us surveillance programmes on eu citizens', and he begins with these two quotes:

“Our government in its very nature, and our open society in all its instinct, under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights automatically outlaws intelligence organizations of the kind that have developed in police states” (Allen Dulles, 1963)

and

"There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society" (Eric Schmidt, Executive chairman of Google, 2013) |

today's news: from rip to drip (application/doc, 153 KB)

The US Pentagon recently declared "war" on paper: apart from the normal paper problems of all unwieldy bureaucracies, the Pentagon now has to cope with the huge amounts of documentation which go with complex high-tech weapons systems. For example, a typical US Navy cruiser puts to sea with no less than 26 tonnes of manuals for its weapons systems - enough to affect the performance of the vessel! | megatrends or megamistakes? whatever happened to the information society? by tom forester

when you meet a start-up chap don't forget to ask:

are you taking care of your people? are you treating your customers well? | jason fried