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Open Rights Group Sheffield
Public Group active 6 hours, 16 minutes agoMonthly meet-ups for anyone interested in digital rights. Topics include copyright, privacy, freedom of expression, open data, censorship, digital inclusion, electronic democracy and internet law. The format is a short presentation to introduce a particular issue followed by group discussion. All are welcome!
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Andy Halsall posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 1 week, 1 day ago ago · updated 6 days, 12 hours ago agoDo we have a thread on ‘what’s next’ in relation to the discussions about Richard O’Dwyer that I am not seeing? If so then please ignore this and enlighten me.. If not, then I wondered if anyone had had any bright ideas in terms of online campaigns.
I’ve pooled my Sheffield resources and a few other bits, as well as dusted off a campaigns…[Read more]
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Laura Elizabeth Walker posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 1 week ago ago · updated 6 days, 22 hours ago agoJust a quick note to say many thanks for the ORG meeting at the Hub regarding Richard O’Dwyer. A very informative evening (I was the lawyer who knew nobody). Great to meet you all. Laura.
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Lovely to meet you too! Thanks for coming down. Glad you enjoyed it and hope to see you at the next one
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 1 week, 2 days ago ago · updated 1 week, 1 day ago agoThe “what next” thread
The first Monday of June falls on a bank holiday. At our last meeting people said they’d prefer not to meet on bank holidays so we need to pick a new day for next month. Here’s a doodle to do just that. Please get stuck in!
We also need a topic and someone to introduce it. Please add your suggestions in the comments -…[Read more]
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My topic of choice is the Communications Bill green paper and censorship of the web in general. It’s topical, controversial and eminently debatable!
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I’d go for the Communications bill or a discussion about the potential issues with the Communications Data Bill based on what we have had today with the Queen’s Speech.
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 1 week, 2 days agoIn the spirit of continuous improvement I asked everyone at our last meeting to suggest something we could change to make the next one better. Here’s what we said:
Focus more on what we can do about the issue at hand
Create separate discussions to focus on direct action
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 1 week, 2 days agoMeeting notes – Extradition and Digital Rights
There was a great turn-out for our first topic-driven meeting. Thanks to the 17 people who came, but especially to Deborah Adshead and Julia O’Dwyer, as I think everyone appreciated hearing about the issues from people who are so closely involved in them.
Deborah was interviewed about the meeting on…[Read more]
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 2 weeks, 1 day ago ago · updated 1 week, 6 days ago agoPaul Blomfield, MP for Sheffield Central, has agreed to meet me next month to discuss the forthcoming Communications Bill green paper. This is great news! If we can persuade local MPs round to our point of view, and get them to engage on our issues in Parliament, then we have a real chance of moving public policy in sensible directions.
I have…[Read more]
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Significant new information has been revealed by ORG through FoI requests to the DCMS: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2012/the-spirit-of-transparency-and-the-copyright-roundtables
Looks like they’re still not talking to anyone except rights-holders, search engines and ISPs, however search engine prioritisation looks to have been taken off…[Read more]
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Adding another good article, same subject: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/digital-policy/2012/05/transparency-dcms-style/index.htm
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If you want to gauge his understanding, ask him questions. “What do you think the main aims of the Communications Bill are?” “Who do you think will be affected by its provisions?” “Shouldn’t all those people have a say in the discussions?” “How well do you understand the technologies used for internet censorship?”
If you can get him to…[Read more]
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Thanks Gerv. Good point about bringing up who will be affected by the provisions we think the green paper may contain – then arguing those groups should be represented!
The DCMS is trying to get the industry to behave as the BPI would like it to, not by legislating, but by persuading search engines and ISPs to take “voluntary” action. That…[Read more]
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 3 weeks ago ago · updated 3 weeks ago agoThose who expressed interest at the last meeting in doing some practical stuff with GPG and encryption might want to come along to the GIST Magazine on Wednesday 2 May. @stubbs will be doing a talk on how to run a keysigning party. I’m crossing my fingers that some actual keysigning might happen too…
) (If anyone wants my GPG key details, by…[Read more]-
Richard,
If you bring some ID, we can sign each others …
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OK will do. Happy to oblige if you need a guinea pig for your demo too
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Well, I’ll explain properly as park of the talk, but there’s usually not much signing at a keysigning party … but I will do a demo so people know what it’s all about.
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Awesome. Looking forward to it!
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 3 weeks, 1 day ago ago · updated 3 weeks ago agoThe Government Digital Service has published its draft identity and privacy principles, and is soliciting comments.
A tip of the hat is owed to @ericapackington here, who suggested this would make a good topic for discussion, perhaps with a view to sending the GDS our thoughts. To that end, then, what do you think of the principles? What’s good…[Read more]
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my first reaction is “oh for fuck’s sake, can we maybe make this less staid?” I’d want the starting statement to be the one that appears in brackets as a translation into actual English – so the first thing we read is for e.g. “My request or transaction only uses the minimum data that is necessary to meet my needs” then the name of the…[Read more]
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They could definitely benefit from a little less wall-of-text and a little more wtf-does-this-actually-mean! The point about 1:1 mappings between people and identities is apposite too, especially in situations where the Government only needs to verify an aspect of your identity, not all of it. Two examples spring to mind: proof of age does not…[Read more]
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 3 weeks, 1 day agoNext meeting: Extradition and Digital Rights
There has been an upsurge in countries asserting jurisdiction over alleged crimes commited via the Internet from other parts of the world. People like Richard O’Dwyer, Gary McKinnon and Kim Dotcom are facing extradition for their actions online despite the authorities in their home countries having…[Read more]
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 3 weeks, 2 days agoI saved the links we flashed up at our first meeting as people raised different issues though. Here’s a list:
The Phenomenology of slowly-loading webpages
Ghostery – makes tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons visible, and optionally blocks them, while you surf the web.
The Guardian Project – phone apps and mods that protect privacy.
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Richard King posted an update in the group
Open Rights Group Sheffield: 1 month agoHey everyone,
You should have received an email about this group being rebooted as the online home of Open Rights Group Sheffield, which I’ve started as a monthly meet-up to discuss the digital-rights issues of the day. I just wanted to make clear that, although we’re affiliated with ORG, our meetings and this group are open to all. That’s…[Read more]
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I remember @guru dropped into the post-meeting conversation a great refinement to @ericapackington‘s online direct-action idea (mentioned in the thread below) – but I’m damned if I can remember it now
Hopefully he’ll remind us…
Julia has also mentioned a couple of things off-list. I’ll see if she wants to drop in and share them…[Read more]
Ah! @guru‘s suggestion was something like a mass tweeting of a message like this:
“Retweet this for a chance to win a free holiday to the USA!!!1 http://bit.ly/blahblahblah“.
The link is to a page explaining how, if there were infringing content here instead of this message, you’d have just published a link to it therefore you could be…[Read more]
Julia O’Dwyer I like the mass tweeting idea and @ericapackington ‘s idea of a campaign hashtag. Another idea I had was about trying to get support for a couple of Billboards in London say at Westminster and on the strand near the High Court. The only thing is both Parliament & Courts will be closed all Summer. Richard suggested 38 degrees for…[Read more]
I think it would be great to get something that we could put in front of the 8 million people using the PP proxy. Think this is perhaps where linking with 38 Degrees might work well? So, we have a clear call to action that we ask them to do something about?
The challenge with the “RT THIS FOR XYZ” is that anyone with any drop of sense isn’t…[Read more]
Also, as there is existing pressure on teh govt with regards to extradition from lots of quarters, 38 Degrees might find it’s an issue that brings together several strands of their active communities. The challenge is that they are pretty wedded to online petitions, letters to MPs and reserve the billboard thing for massive campaigns (NHS…[Read more]
I can understand an MP’s stance. What 38 Degrees shows, it seems to me, is that it’s now easy in the world of the Internet to get a million people from the political left to sign up to a mailing list. (Often using shady tactics; I ended up on their list after signing a petition they did in collaboration with ORG, and despite complaints found it…[Read more]