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Earlier this year, Parliament’s ad hoc committee on National Intelligence published a draft bill which deals with such cloak-and-dagger things as protecting state information, or 007-like things such as how certain information might be protected from destruction or disclosure.
If the Cambridge Five had played their games in the modern day South Africa, they would, in [...]

In relation to my posts “absa vs fnb” and “the absa saga continues“….
It seems as if Absa is really trying their utmost best to irritate people. I have received two spam emails from Absa today, one from Absa Platinum and one from “Absa Investment Advantage”, this after I have tried to contact Absa in order [...]

Blogging as a private pastime or hobby is become more and more popular, especially with easy to use online tools such as wordpress, typepad or blogger.com. Blogs are also, in most instances, creations of anonymous writers (take my own blog as example). Famous examples include the AnonymousLawyer, who posted saucy details of the internal workings [...]

br!ghtshark has been tormented by unscrupulous sms’ers over the past few months and after getting over the initial irritation factor, decided that, “for crying out loud, I’m an e-lawyer, this can’t be!”…
So, the process started to rid my cellphone of those pesky sms’es, arriving day and night, advertising credit cards, new fashion sales and parties [...]

The National Council of Provinces (SA’s second house of parliament) has questioned the sensibility of the amendments to the Regulation of Interception and Provision of Communication-related Information Act (RICA), this after it was passed through the National Assembly (first house of parliament).
The NCOP raised questions as to the practicality of the amendments. The issues raised [...]

Certain sections of the the US’s so-called “Patriot” Act was struck down by a Judge during a hearing brought about by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The act previously allowed FBI agents to obtain the electronic records of suspected terrorists and also gag the institution which provided the records to inform their client of the fact [...]

 
The Regulation of Interception and Provision of Communication-related Information Act (RICA for short) came into effect yesterday.
In terms of this act, cellphone providers are required to compile a register of all names and details of cellphone users. This is obviously mostly applicable to prepaid users and cellphone providers must link an ID [...]

 
The South African legal system is currently being confronted by a very modern and as yet, novel, incidence of possible defamation.
An unknown person claimed to be a male prostitute and has recently published a list of names of supposed clients, including various well-known or famous individuals such as politicians, SABC presenters and music personalities, on [...]

 
The maker of the very popular iPod has recently started selling certain music tracks online without DRM (digital rights management) protection. DRM protection was previously used to prevent users from copying music which was bought online. A big fanfare has now erupted as it was discovered that any music which was bought on the iTunes [...]