CyberLaw Blog

Archive for July 4th, 2008

Analysis: NSA Spying Judge Defends Rule of Law, Congress Set to Strip His Power: “President Bush’s arguments for his secret wiretapping of Americans are not legal, a federal court judge ruled Wednesday standing up for a law intended to curtail Presidential spying abuses. His reward? Come Tuesday, the Senate is expected to pass a law legalizing Bush’s dragnet and ordering the Republican-appointed judge to throw out cases against telecoms that helped with the spying.

(Via Wired News.)

Google ‘faces Street View block’: “Google’s plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.”

(Via BBC News.)

Would a data notification law improve UK data security?: “

How to prevent more government data disasters

A panel of experts in data protection was beaten yesterday by a simple question from the floor: ‘Can you give us an example of good data security practice by the British Government?’…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

Bits: Google Puts Privacy Link on Main Page: “The move brings Google into clear compliance with a California law that requires many Internet sites to have a link to their privacy policy on their home page.

(Via NYT > Technology.)

Judge grants Viacom 12TB of YouTube user records: “

Google’s privacy comeuppance

In the ongoing $1bn legal spat between Google and Viacom, a federal judge has ordered the search giant to turn over all existing records of every video viewed on YouTube. That includes user account names and IP addresses.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)