US Justice Department free to track mobile phone users: “ If you have nothing to hide… The American Civil Liberties Union has revealed that the FBI no longer feels the need for judicial or operator…
Post from: TorrentFreak “ No Solace for Bond: Movie Pirates Evade Camcorder Spies: “ Hitting US theaters this week, the latest Bond movie ‘Quantum of Solace’ has already been released in the UK. However, despite…
Post from: TorrentFreak “ TorrentValley Raided and Shut Down: “ TorrentValley, one of the larger BitTorrent sites with millions of visitors each month, has been shut down by Bulgarian authorities. The site’s servers were seized…
Net Spying Firm and ISPs Sued Over Ad System: “ISP customers sue a controversial Net monitoring firm and its ISP partners, alleging that the companies violated federal wiretapping law with their ad-targeting scheme. All have…
Judge: No cryptographic hash analysis sans warrant: “ It’s a search In a case that could have important implications for law enforcement investigations throughout the US, a federal judge has ruled that the cryptographic fingerprinting…
The dangers of Internet censorship – The Boston Globe By Harry Lewis, November 5, 2008 SUPPOSE that government regulators proposed to read all postal mail in order to protect families from things they should not…
Good article. Techdirt: Technology Moral Panics: But Think Of The Children!
(Via Techdirt.) Big Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA’s Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional: “People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on…
The updated EFF report entitled Unintended Consequences: Ten Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which assesses the problematic application of the notice & takedown provisions of the US legislation is definitely worth reading. [Yaman…
(Via Techdirt.) The Web Thrived In Spite Of The DMCA, Not Because Of It: “While I was pointing out all of the reasons why the DMCA needs to be re-examined from scratch, Wired has put…