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Petition to the High Court of Justice against the Biometric Database

By on February 20, 2012 in Announcements, Privacy with 9 Comments
Petition to the High Court of Justice against the Biometric Database

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a petition to the High Court of Justice today (February 20), seeking to annul a law that would establish a governmental biometric database and to cancel of the database’s two-year pilot program. The petition was filed by ACRI attorney Avner Pinchuk along with The Movement for Digital […]

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Pic of the Day: George Orwell and Modern Information Technology

By on January 22, 2012 in Announcements, Privacy with 10 Comments
Pic of the Day: George Orwell and Modern Information Technology

Now what would George Orwell say about this picture? The irony of surveillance… (BTW, Placa de George Orwell is located in Barcelona. He went to Barcelona in 1936, and hoped to write articles about the Spanish Civil War. )

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