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25/09/2007 | USA | Privacy | Study: Businesses falling short on data disposal
Organizations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to communication services provider BT Group.
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18/09/2007 | USA | Advertisement | Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal
Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads. Tomorrow`s legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements.
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16/09/2007 | USA | Law Enforcement | How law enforcement uses Google Earth
law enforcement agencies across the country and around the world are using the popular mapping service, both to fight crime and to offer valuable information to the public.
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12/09/2007 | USA | Fair use | Fair use is not a consumer right
There is no question that in the Digital Age, consumers need a better understanding of both the rights of creators as well as the limits on those rights through fair use.
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06/09/2007 | USA | Cyber Crime | Investigators Fighting Growing Online Prostitution Problem
Augmenting traditional surveillance of street walkers, massage parlors, brothels and escort services, investigators are now hunching over computer screens to scroll through provocative cyber-ads in search of solicitors. Sex and the Internet have been intertwined almost since the first Web site, but ...
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30/08/2007 | USA | Surveillance | How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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29/08/2007 | USA | Copyrights | Legal woes mount for TorrentSpy
Hollywood has pounded TorrentSpy this past week, winning two important court decisions against the BitTorrent search engine that could hand the movie industry some powerful new tools in its fight against illegal file sharing.
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29/08/2007 | Europe | Security | Discover security breach, blame the co-workers?
IT managers in small and midsize businesses blame their fellow workers for online security breaches--despite the fact many small enterprises still don`t enforce Web usage policies.
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28/08/2007 | USA | Technology | Is Unlocking Apple`s iPhone Legal?
The legal status of unlocking an iPhone is somewhat murky. The main law in this area is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids the circumvention of copy-protection technology. Last year, however, the Copyright Office created an exemption ``for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to ...
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22/08/2007 | USA | Regulation | Efforts to Restrict Violent Video Games Keep Failing
As video games have surged in popularity in recent years, politicians around the country have tried to outlaw the sale of some violent games to children. So far all such efforts have failed.
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22/08/2007 | USA | Information Society | Gadgets are from Mars, connections are from Venus?
The author said she sometimes feels like she is living in a high-tech version of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, which she thinks of as Gadgets are from Mars, Connections are from Venus.
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13/08/2007 | USA | Privacy | How search engines rate on privacy
In the last few months, the search engine business has experienced its own version of cutthroat competition: a privacy policy war, with Google, Ask.com and Microsoft vying to outdo one another in protecting their users` personal information.
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10/08/2007 | USA | Spam | Hide Your E-mail Address from Spam Bots
You need a simple way to confuse future spammers - the ones who aren`t already swamping your inbox with rubbish. This how-to shows the way.
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07/08/2007 | USA | Wiretap | FAQ: How far does the new wiretap law go?
Protect America Act signed Sunday temporarily makes it easier for the feds to eavesdrop on calls and e-mail. But what are the privacy impacts?
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02/08/2007 | USA | Ethics | A picture worth a thousand lies
picture may be worth a thousand words, but are they authentic?
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