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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police
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Thu May 17 16:59:43 2012
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The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police
http://j.mp/KwKfuH (Foreign Policy)
Increasingly, however, the job of policing the Internet is falling to
private intermediaries -- companies that are under little or no legal
obligation to uphold citizens' rights. In effect, they end up acting
simultaneously as digital police, judge, jury, and executioner.
European governments may not have intended to create a "privatized
police state," but that is what digital rights activists in Europe
warn is happening, due to growing government pressure on companies to
police themselves.
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