CyberLaw Blog

Archive for August 1st, 2008

US Senate polishes new teeth for cyber cops: “

Prosecution made easy

The US Senate has passed a bill to strengthen the hands of federal prosecutors who fight computer crime by removing some of the more common hurdles in prosecuting online miscreants.…>”

(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Lawmakers Demand Info on Web Tracking Practices: “A congressional committee sent letters to more than 30 Internet companies demanding to know whether they track where their users go online and use that information to deliver personalized advertising.

(Via NYT > Technology.)

BBC NEWS UK: Police admit child porn mistakes

Police admit they “could have done things better” after telling a landlady to destroy thousands of pages of child pornography she found in a flat.

Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period: “

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border.

A pair of DHS policies from last month say that Customs agents can routinely — as a matter of course …

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(Via The Iconoclast.)

Video websites ‘must vet content’: “Online firms including YouTube need to do more to protect children from the ‘dark side’ of the internet, MPs have said.”

(Via BBC News.)

Beijing unblocks BBC Chinese site: “Chinese authorities appear to have unblocked the BBC’s Chinese language website, amid a row over internet censorship.”

(Via BBC News.)

YouTube’s Porn Policy Might Land It in Legal Trouble: “How hard is it to find porn on YouTube? Hard enough that the Internet giant might be inadvertently opening itself up to increased legal scrutiny.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

FCC formally rules Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent was illegal: “

Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, marking the first time that any U.S. broadband provider has ever been found to violate Net neutrality rules.

The Federal Communications Commission handed Comcast a cease-and-desist order and required the …

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(Via The Iconoclast.)

China lifts more internet curbs: “China unblocks more websites in a bid to end a row over internet access for Olympic journalists, a week before the Games open.”

(Via BBC News.)

Google accused on privacy views: “A US civil rights group accuses Google of double-standards on its stance over personal privacy.”

(Via BBC News.)