When it comes to disgusting behaviour, you can't plumb an Irish politician. Apparently the governemt is proposing a law to require information retention of email, web-browsing, phone-clls etc for four years. Who the fuck do they think they are kidding.

Here's the story from the Irish Times, and here's the "discussion" from slashdot.

stupid discussion on same: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=a0e754fdb35c1e1ab14b0bfe...

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Interesting story about news.google.com from indymedia, running on algorithms that select and pool news storeis from thodands of different sources each day and delivers them in a searchable format akin to the search engine itself. Seems that they're currently pulling pieces from Ireland and San Francisco IMCs.

Probably something that we should do to.