Virginia Court Strikes Down Anti-Spam Law: “The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world’s most prolific spammers.” (Via NYT…
GCHQ ‘monitored Omagh bomb calls’: “The UK’s electronic intelligence agency monitored phone calls between the Omagh bombers, the BBC’s Panorama reports.” (Via BBC News.)
Updated Community Guidelines: “As the YouTube Community expands and evolves, we’re always trying to keep pace by creating policies that reflect innovative new uses of YouTube and the diverse content posted by users every day….
OiNK BitTorrent admin faces fraud prosecution: “ Uploaders to be hauled before the beak, too Cleveland police have charged Alan Ellis, the former administrator of the defunct BitTorrent tracker site OiNK.cd, with conspiracy to defraud…
French storm the bastille over ‘Sarkozy’s Big Sister’ database: “ Je ne suis pas un nombre Imagine, if you will, an announcement by the UK Government that it is going to create a new database…
Groups Urge Senate Not To Turn The Justice Department Into Hollywood’s Private Police Force: “As we noted earlier this summer, Senator Patrick Leahy had introduced a companion bill to the House’s dreadful Pro-IP bill, except…
British Firm Phorm Trudges Through the Deep Packet Storm: “Deep packet inspection — the secret harvesting of granular details about individual internet activity so companies can make better guesses about what to sell you —…
Bits: Dealing With I.S.P. Snooping: “A law professor argues that Internet providers are probably violating wiretap laws if they monitor the surfing of their users for advertising, but he still proposes making the laws even…
Bits: Google Tightens Data Retention Policy – Again: “Under pressure from regulators and activists, Google tightened its data retention policies, saying it would anonymize search records after nine months. (Via NYT > Technology.)
Another step to protect user privacy: “Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel; Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel; and Alma Whitten, Software Engineer (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog) Today, we’re announcing a new logs…