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Announcing the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference Beijing 2008
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| OpenOffice.org has today opened registration for its biggest ever annual
| international conference. The Conference - to be held in Beijing, China
| between 5th.-7th. November - is the main event of the year for developers,
| supporters, and users of OpenOffice.org software, the leading free software
| alternative to Microsoft Office.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1177594.htm
Freedom Not Fear 2008
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| On 11. October 2008 we call for an international action day in as many
| European capital cities as possible and elsewhere around the world to
| demonstrate against the total retention of telecommunication data and other
| instruments of surveillance.
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http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2008
Many government officials have begun wearing tinfoil hats.
Recent:
Warning over phone calls database
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| A central database holding details of everyone's phone calls and emails could
| be a "step too far for the British way of life", ministers have been warned.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7507627.stm
US civil rights activists protest new wiretapping law
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| The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against the US
| government to protest the new Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
| recently passed by Congress. The civil rights organisation believes that the
| far-reaching authority granted by the Act, which has now been signed by
| George W. Bush, is unconstitutional.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/110904/from/rss09
The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/police_photographer_stops/
Bavaria sanctions police spyware
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| Bavaria has become the first German state to approve laws that allow police
| to plant spyware on the PCs of terror suspects.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_plan/
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