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	<description>Defending civil liberties in the digital age</description>
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		<title>Submission: Search &amp; Surveillance Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Text of our submission to the Select Committee about the Search &#038; Surveillance Bill. Or download the PDF version. 1. General comments about the S&#038;S Bill While we appreciate the proposed changes to the Bill, we still hold grave concerns about the general thrust of the Bill towards increased powers for search and surveillance. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/submission-search-surveillance-bill/</link>
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		<title>Dissent, the internet and freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tech Liberty was formed because a group of us were concerned that governments were ignoring traditional civil liberties when it came to new technology. The New Zealand government had recently passed a digital copyright law that would see people punished without due process and were secretly introducing a new internet censorship regime. We decided that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/dissent-the-internet-and-freedom/</link>
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		<title>ACTA: Improving but problems remain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ACTA treaty negotiation process is still going strong. The participants apparently feel pressured to finalise the agreement before the end of the year and have agreed to an extra negotiating round in Washington next week to help hurry things up. The most recent leaked text shows that progress is being made on the details [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/acta-improving-but-problems-remain/</link>
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		<title>Internet filtering &#8211; time to let it go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been over 3 years since the Department of Internal Affairs started their internet censorship trials in New Zealand. Since then (data from June 29th 2010): They completed trials of the system nearly two years ago. They have signed up just two small ISPs, Watchdog and Maxnet, although we believe that Maxnet are not using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/internet-filtering-time-to-let-go/</link>
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		<title>Sky Television: A takedown conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've read our article about Sky's takedown notices you might be interested to see what a Sky takedown letter looks like, complete with the follow-up conversation. Initial letter from Buddle Findlay/Sky Television Buddle Findlay 6 May 2010 Sky Network Television Limited Unauthorised use of programme listings information 1. We act for Sky Network Television [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/sky-takedown-conversation/</link>
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		<title>Sky&#8217;s Takedown Notices &#8211; Justice or Intimidation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a pretty scary thing to receive a legal letter from the law firm of a large corporate, especially when they claim that you're in breach of their rights and then make a series of demands. Going to court is very expensive and even if you're in the right, do you have enough money to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/skys-takedown-notices/</link>
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		<title>ACTA: Say hello to statutory damages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: After further analysis and discussion with NZ officials we believe that the current draft of the ACTA agreement would allow New Zealand to maintain its current damages scheme as represented by the (c) option in the agreement (additional punitive damages are decided by the judge). This means that New Zealand would not have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/acta-say-hello-to-statutory-damages/</link>
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		<title>Report on public talk: Open Connectivity, Open Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Penney, the Cyberlaw Fellow at Victoria University gave a public talk about the idea of "internet as a right" and whether there is any basis for this in current New Zealand law. He started by looking at s14 of the 1990 Bill of Rights Act. This is about freedom of expression: Everyone has the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/report-on-public-talk-open-connectivity-open-data/</link>
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		<title>Flowcharts for the new Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Esther has created some useful flowcharts that help explain some of the processes included in the new Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill. He has very kindly allowed us to repost them here. We have reformatted the flowcharts and made some other changes; we apologise for any introduced errors and will fix any that are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/flowcharts-for-the-new-copyright-infringing-file-sharing-bill/</link>
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		<title>Privacy and Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Tech Liberty representative spent two half days at a group discussion about privacy and technology. Here are some of the things that were discussed: That everything you do on the internet leaves a trail. While anonymity is achievable, it is generally much harder than most people believe. That this data can be collected, aggregated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techliberty.org.nz/privacy-and-technology/</link>
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