Cyberunions Talk Show – Episode 44 We are DuckDuckgoing to talk about Internet Freedom

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0:28 We missed a week

• Stephen is back in Mexico after a week in Boston dealing with storage and other errands
• Walton is busy with Union Solidarity International and will be attending the Scottish Trade Union Congress
• Stephen wanted to achieve more when in Boston but was too busy

4:10 Let’s hear the tech Updates

• We’ve been using DuckDuckGo cause it doesn’t track your searches like google does
• Great search abilities to use the bang (!) to do specific searches
• Stephen first learned that ! is called bang when he used CrunchBang (#!) Linux
• Walton doesn’t have that growing sense of paranoia that google knows everything, discovered it in Linuxmint

8:35 Internet Freedom infringed by the FBI

• Mayfirst was approached by the FBI about access to a server in relation to one email that was tracked by IP through a Mayfirst server that is administered by Riseup Network that the European Counter Network (ECN) uses with an Anonymous Remailer
• What is an anonymous remailer
• FBI went to the housing location and took the server from the housing company
• Mayfirst/Riseup/ECN released a statement

16:24 Return of SOPA/PIPA

• The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is the new SOPA/PIPA
• What is CISPA? information provided by EFF
• Allows companies to give personal information from emails to the federal government without a court order
• Governments realize that activism is becoming powerful online and doing what they can to cut it down
• The UK version is similar to CISPA is the Communications Capabilities Development Programme

22:00 We search for a cheery note to end on

• Stephen has nothing, Walton brings us back to the potential of Union Solidarity International

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