Welcome to the January 30, 2009 edition of freedom and privacy carnival. Sorry its a couple of days late - but here it is.

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Back to normal again now, so lots of links for you from around the blogosphere. There is a good mix this time, I do not agree with all of the posts, but as I said when I set up this carnival, I would post links representing views other than my own.

Enjoy - we'll be back in a fortnight.

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As I have previously covered in the EU makes police hacking legal post Europe is making moves to give police forces new powers to spy on anyone’s home or business computers. This is now being implemented in the UK, and is being picked up by more mainstream sources such as BBC and The Times.

To counter this, I hope to make available soon (read, when I get chance) a Linux distribution, based off GOS, that will run from a CD (though it will be installable as running from the CD is slow), it will include encryption be default as well as TOR and other online anonymity tools - if anyone is willing to help me test this, or have ideas of things to include, please let me know - you will need to have a PC or Intel based Mac though.

I'll let you know when I have something usable.

Welcome to the January 2, 2009 edition of freedom and privacy carnival. Its a bit late - and very short, guess that is chrismas for you.

Back to normal in a couple of weeks.

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Welcome to the December 19, 2008 edition of freedom and privacy carnival.

I said when I started this carnival that I would post on all sides - and it seems people have taken me at my word and so we have a real mixed bag - Enjoy!

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Welcome to the December 5, 2008 edition of freedom and privacy carnival.

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As part of a 5 year action plan to 'combat the growth in cyber theft and spam' the EU have granted Europol £250,000 to create a system to allow european police forces to share data with each other which they have gained be illegal means. Obviously they worded it slightly better than I have, but essentially that is what they have allowed.

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David Scharf's Big Brother State.

As well as being professional and easy to watch this is a brilliant and largely unbiased portrayal of the current situation in the UK and, to a lesser extent, the affluent countries of the western world. And that's about all that needs to be said, the video speaks for itself.

Watch it here or copy the address below.

 http://www.huesforalice.com/bbs/index.php?page=big

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For those who have not yet seen this, below is the interview conducted by Eerie Investigations of KiasWorld member Zas.

The interview took place at the Freedom Not Fear 2008 demo in London. Zas' interview is at the start of the video, at around 1 Min 3 Sec.

Good one Zas - I hope that this is the first of many media interviews for the cause.

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My school starts the day off with the pledge of allegiance.

I choose not to pledge my allegiance to a nation that I've lost complete faith in. I am not being disrespectful I am exercising my constitutional right of freedom. Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Making me stand or say the pledge both hinders and restrains me from the use of my right to freedom and is therefore unconstitutional. When this nation goes back to the way it once was, when this nation goes back to the values it was founded on I will proudly pledge my allegiance to it. Until that time I will not so much as stand.

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With the first of the UK ID cards rolling out this week to foreign nationals, I thought I’d do a quick update of all the lunacy that has gone off lately.

The initial cost is expected to be £30 - paid for by the card holder - and is now seeming likely to rise after 2010, to how much is anyone’s guess. On top of that - if your details are wrong you will be fined £125 to start, but with the possibility of that fine increasing. The shocking thing about this is not just the fine - but the fact that if the data on the government’s database is wrong - it is your responsibility, not theirs.

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I covered the story of the BNP member list leaking the other day. I thought I would do a quick follow up.

Firstly, a police officer (police officers are not allowed to be member's of the BNP) has been suspended while his links to the British National Party are investigated. A radio DJ whose name was on the list as a BNP member has been sacked - he claimed that he joined the party while investigating a story - whether this is true or not appears to be irrelevant. Another victim (if that is the right word) of the member list is a gardener - whose boss has told him his services are no longer required - after all his customers were called and told of their gardeners BNP links. On top of this, the shop ran by the gardeners wife has been visited in the night and covered with anti-BNP slogans - and messages pointing out who the shop is ran by etc.

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