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- Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)
- internet and governmentI'm glad I read this, it was interesting. Not as informative as it might have been - I would have liked to see some actual cases and decisions cited - but it raised interesting issues. However, what really struck me is that this article needs a good copy...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Privacy groups want Congressional action on behavioral ads
- Privacy and consumer groups have had enough with Internet companies' promises of self-regulation and want Congress to pass legislation to protect privacy. The coalition - including the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumers Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and U.S. Public Interest Research Group - offered some 13 pages of proposed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Google Books privacy debate: Whose side are you on?
- I was listening to NPR yesterday, and one story lingered with me throughout the day. So, I figured I'd take it to the blogs and see what you all have to say about the matter. Here's the deal: Some authors have mixed feelings...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Groups demand privacy for Google Books
- A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups are saying that Google Books could become "one-stop shopping" for law enforcement to track people's reading habits. The ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson law clinic at UC Berkeley sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Apple withdraws legal threats against Bluwiki
- OdioWorks LLC runs a free and open wiki service called BluWiki which has drawn threats from Apple's legal department for hosting a wiki for iTunesDB. Apple's issue is that iTunesDB is an attempt to learn about iTunes' database file system and create third-party software that can replicate...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- MySpace suicide conviction tentatively overturned
- It looks like Lori Drew - the too-involved-in-her-daughter's-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself - will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. But on Thursday, the judge in the case tentatively threw out...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you
- Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Apple is being accused of stifling free speech; again
- In November 2008 Virginia-based OdioWorks, operator of BluWiki a non-commercial wiki that promises publishing without censorship, received a takedown notice from Apple demanding that it remove user postings about how to “write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Wiki sues Apple over DMCA claims
- Last year, Apple lawyers contacted OdioWorks, the operator of BluWiki.com, claiming that certain user postings violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and copyright law. Apple threatened to sue Odioworks if the documents weren't removed and OdioWorks complied. Now, with the assistance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, OdioWorks...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- At MPAA request, judge kicks public out of RealDVD court
- In an unusual development, Judge Marilyn Patel kicked out the public from the RealDVD injunction hearing, saying that details of DVD encryption were trade secrets that need to be protected. Real and Cnet objected strenuously, as News.com reports. "I find that this does meet the requirements for...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Apparently, using Linux is a crime at Boston College
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported over the last couple of days that a Boston College computer science student has been targeted by BC police largely on the basis of using Linux. No, really - I'm serious. by Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use
- I passed Jason's post about getting DMCA'd by Warner Music onto Fred von Lohmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You'll recall that Jason and his wife put up on Vimeo a reunion slideshow with several tracks of music and that Warner Music Group promptly filed a DMCA take-down notice. Fred's...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videos
- Thousands of user-created videos- or at least their audio tracks - have disappeared from YouTube, and the question is who's fault is it? The New York Times reports that many YouTube users have found themselves in the same position as high school sophomore Juliet Weybret, who...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers
- Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakersApple Makes the best Smart Phone. Now...... it needs to make the most open Smart Phone.The backlash against Apple is growingPeople are slowly beginning to realize that Apple, the multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporation, does [b]not[/b] have consumer rights in mind. They are...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers
- Software titans Mozilla and Skype have thrown their support behind the EFF and the iPhone jailbreaking community. A new filling with the US Copyright Office seeks an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DCMA related to iPhone jailbreaking. The exemption would strip Apple of its ability to charge...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Copyright battle over iPhone jailbreaks
- Nice piece from Saul Hansell in the Times around Apple's copyright claims on iPhone jailbreaking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a filing PDF with the Copyright Office, urged an exception to copyright law that would allow customers to jailbreak the iPhone. Apple responded PDF, urging no exception. ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Obama Memorandum - Transparency and Open Government: Collaborate!
- MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government ...Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip
- The headlines across the blogosphere make it sound like the Recording Industry Association of America has thrown in the towel and decided to stop going after music pirates on the Internet. That's not exactly the case. Instead, the RIAA is teaming up with Internet Service Providers to...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Bopaboo may feel like eBay but will end up looking like original Napster.
- A startup called Bopaboo surely has the lawyers at the Recording Industry Association of America putting in some overtime. Bopaboo has launched a service that has created - get this - an eBay-like marketplace for "used" digital music files. That's right. If you're tired of your old...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Mom wants Drew to serve the max - three years and $300,000
- Mom wants Drew to serve the max - three years and $300,000It's not manslaughter!She did it on purpose. It's murder. Nothing less.agree with "bad precedent"I agree with you except for the last part. As you stated yourself, it is not absolutely clear that this charade really caused the suicide. So...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
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