pThe National Centre for Information Technology conducted a workshop to train professionalsbr / Venezuela promotes free software/p pTranslated with google translator sorry if some things are weird but you get the idea:br / a href=http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=72435 title=http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=72435http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=72435/a/p pAs part of strategies designed by the National Centre for Information Technology (CNTI) to strengthen the National Free Software Industry, the institution conducted the workshop multipliers in the field of information technology (IT) entrepreneurs programme, in order to prepare professionals who will be responsible for train-on development of business-to potential industrial products units./p pThe program entrepreneurs looking to strengthen national capacities in the sector of information technology Free, with the intention of promoting the supply of services, application development, consultancy and technical assistance to meet the needs of public and private sectors of the country by strengthening Model endogenous development proposed by the Bolivarian Government./p pa href=http://binaryfreedom.info/node/335read more/a/p

pLess than 24 hours after the public found out that Facebook was blocking bugmenot.com, they unblocked it. Major props to everybody who helped get bugmenot.com unblocked./p pOnce again, Binary Freedom was at the forefront of defending free speech online. Direct action gets the goods./p

pLast year, we helped lead a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/258a successful campaign/a against Facebook's privacy invading beacon program. When Facebook refused to drop Beacon, we a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/260got/a a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/270their/a a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/265advertisers/a to drop them. When Facebook said they dropped Beacon, a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/268we showed/a that they a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/263lied/a. Throughout the campaign, we a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/259kept on/a the a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/262heat/a. The campaign was covered by Slashdot, Digg, CNN, USA Today, and hundreds of other news ourlets. Eventually, we a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/271won./p pLater, a union organizer a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/306had his account closed/a without any good reason. With other union groups, we fought to have it reinstated. Once again, a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/309we won./a/p pa href=http://binaryfreedom.info/node/333read more/a/p

pThe Thai Government has recently declared a state of emergency and a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/03/digitalmedia.thailandordered the blocking of hundred of more websites/a through their online censorship program./p pIn response, Binary Freedom members have offered to host these free speech websites on their servers free of charge. If you are interested in offering some hosting space, send an email to ringo{at}coimc=dot=org. Tell us what you have (PHP, SQL, etc.) and we will try and place an orphan site in your hands./p pIn such troublesome times in Thailand, it is critical that freedom fighters in other countries stand in solidarity and work to insure that the Thai people have the revolution they deserve, and have been asking for./p pThe online communication networks they use to further their goals are critical./p

pI was notified today that a class action lawsuit was filed against Facebook today for their Beacon program. The defendants in the suit are Facebook and advertisers who used their Beacon program such as Blockbuster, Fandango, Hotwire, Overstock, Zappos, Gamefly, and 40 doe corporations. Earlier this year, Binary Freedom helped lead a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/266a successful/a a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/260campaign/a to stop Beacon. In the end, a href=http://binaryfreedom.info/node/270several/a a href=http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/265advertisers/a dropped Beacon due to public pressure. The Beacon program was a clear violation of Facebook's privacy policy and automatically shared user information with advertisers as well as telling a user's friends on facebook what they were looking at/buying online. This obviously has huge privacy implications./p pa href=http://binaryfreedom.info/node/331read more/a/p

pHow can people in the US complain about human rights violations in otherbr / countries when the US violates the biggest ones? The U.S. uses the deathbr / penalty, prison or often assasination for political dissidents,br / sanctuary for anti left wing terrorists and in some cases Nazis, atomicbr / bomb proliferation, atomic bomb use and killing of massive amounts ofbr / civilians, free speech zones, the necessity of permits for a protestbr / or getting arrested for disturbing the peace or getting called andbr / arrested as a terrorist for being a political dissident. Every revoltbr / is punished and retaliated with a brutal amount of police(military)br / force. So yes you have a freedom as long you do not exercise it againstbr / the wrong people. Now we have the dictatorship of the corporations,br / waging their biases on the Internet just like they do with mass mediabr / and TV and basically anything that you can buy.br / But private corporations are like small dictator ships at a level ofbr / modern feudalism, were each CEO/CTO are the kings of their empire and inbr / their land they do what they please, all living under the protection ofbr / the biggest and most hypocritical war maker in modern history. The U.S./p pa href=http://binaryfreedom.info/node/330read more/a/p

pI finally cancelled my a href=https://www.yahoo.comYahoo/a account this week mainly because I never used it and also because it would just be one less entry about me in a database. After I cancelled it, I got a confirmation email stating that my account data would be deleted in 90 days. I think this is normal for an online business and they are honest about their data retention policies, unlike a href=https://www.google.comGoogle/a whose a href=http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.htmlprivacy policy/a says that they can collect any information they want and use it any way they want. The scary part about Yahoo's email to me however, was the data retention on Premium Yahoo Finance accounts.br / i** This is only a notification. You do NOT need to respond. **/p pThis email is to confirm that your Yahoo! account, [removed]br / has been recently terminated per your request. Your accountbr / has been deactivated and will be deleted from our user registrationbr / database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary tobr / discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity. bTo satisfybr / terms agreed to in the Yahoo! Finance Terms of Service, personal /p pa href=http://binaryfreedom.info/node/329read more/a/p