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Submission + - SPAM: Cisco and US Authorities found in collusion

Submitted by djmurdoch on Friday June 03, 2011 @04:01AM

djmurdoch writes: The Vancouver Sun reports that "The giant computer company Cisco and U.S. prosecutors deceived Canadian authorities and courts in a massive abuse of process to have a former executive thrown in jail, says a B.C. Supreme Court judge." Peter Adelkeye was arrested last year as he was testifying in a special hearing in Vancouver. It turns out he was there because US authorities would not grant him permission to enter the US to testify in a civil case between him and Cisco. The Canadian judge said that almost nothing in the US Attorney's letter was true, and has overturned his extradition order. Slashdot discussed this case in April.
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Submission + - Privacy rankings: US beats Thailand, UK, China

Submitted by djmurdoch on Thursday November 02, 2006 @08:09AM

djmurdoch writes: From the Globe and Mail: Germany and Canada are the best defenders of privacy, and Malaysia and China the worst, an international rights group said in a report released Wednesday. Britain was rated as an endemic surveillance society, at No. 33, just above Russia and Singapore on a ranking of 37 countries' privacy protections by London-based Privacy International. The United States did only slightly better, at No. 30, ranked between Israel and Thailand, with few safeguards and widespread surveillance, the group said.

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