This may look like an Australian story. It is that, but it’s bigger, because it is significant for citizens of any democratic country and others who cherish democratic principles. The new Australian government has announced stringent new controls over the Internet. According to the report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s site, Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister

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In November there was a brouhaha about Facebook’s Beacon innovation, which for a lot of people represented an unacceptable intrusion on privacy. GigaOm saw it as “a privacy disaster waiting to happen”. It looks to me as if we are concluding the year with, for practical purposes, Facebook off the hook, but the jury still

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