Sun 22 May. 2005

MediaTuner

Om Malik provides a good review of MediaTuner: an online based RSS news reader integrating podcasts and a video blogging features.

(via theRSSweblog)

State and Civil Liberties in the EU

Heads-Up: A Statewatch Report:

Read how the EU-wide Schengen Informationssystem II is being developed into a Panoptic-Big-Brother-Surveillance-Database-Machine behind the backs of the European parliaments.

From the Schengen Information System to SIS II and the Visa
Information (VIS):
the proposals explained (pdf)

Taken together, SIS II, VIS and PNR will introduce the surveillance of the movements of everyone in the EU - citizens, legally resident third-country nationals, visa entrants and irregular migrants - and the storage of their personal data on an unprecedented scale.

Real Horrorshow!

(via Heise Online - Google translation)