Your Rights Online
- CISPA Author Ramps Up The FUD: Claims He Can't Sleep At Night Due To 'Unusual Source' Threatening Us--One that's so secret even he can't talk about it.
- German Gov't Inadvertently Reveals Police Monitor Gmail, Skype, Facebook & Use Snooping Malware
- Saudi Arabia Suggests Global Internet Regulations To Preserve 'Public Order'
- Australia: Govt censors pre-prepared data retention bills
- Cybercrime law is suspended by Philippines court
- Canada-EU Trade Agreement Replicates ACTA's Notorious Copyright Provisions
- UN IP group tells Pirate Party: You can't even watch--"In Germany, the Pirate Party has sent a candidate to a state senate; in Sweden, the party has actually elected members of the European Parliament. But whatever its successes, the Pirate Party still won't be able to sit in on proceedings of the World Intellectual Property Organization...."
- Megaupload server seizures finally run into mega-due-process
- Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project
- YouTube finally offers a meaningful ContentID appeal process--"But takedown policies are still favorable to large copyright holders."
- ICE Reluctantly Releases A Small Number Of Heavily Redacted Domain Seizure Docs, Holds The Rest Hostage
- The New Zealand institutions that broke our trust--"[T]hat's not a story about Kim Dotcom, that's a story about New Zealand institutions who got it wrong, so wrong, they even broke the law."
- Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case--Giving the telcos the gift of immunity.
- FBI Rolling Out Hi-tech 'Big Brother' Monitoring System
- Why Is The Government Afraid Of This iPhone App?
- The Danger To Privacy Isn't Corporate Data-Mining Or Governmental Surveillance – It's Both Combined
- Think tank's website rejects browser do-not-track requests
- Ad industry calls IE10's 'Do Not Track' setting 'unacceptable'
- The Do Not Track standard has crossed into crazy territory
- US Congress' Privacy Caucus says DAA's anti-'Do Not Track' stance puts "profits over privacy"
- Europe's Internet chief: Policy makers are compromising privacy with Do Not Track bickering
- Do Not Track is drawing advertisers' fire NYT
- Advertisers launch $1 million campaign to combat privacy concerns
- How much do Google and Facebook profit from your data?
- How to stop Verizon (and AT&T) from selling your location data and other usage stats to advertisers
- Verizon iPhone owners have 30 days to opt-out of sharing location, search data and more with advertisers
- Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits
- Apple: How to opt out of interest-based ads from the iAd network
- An always-on Siri: MindMeld listens to you talk, finds what you need
- Amazon’s Next Big Business Is Selling You
- FTC Releases Google Privacy Report – Minus The Juicy Details
- Google accused of spying on Gmail users
- Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds--"SC court says Gmail not "electronic storage" by Stored Communications Act."
- Google told to fix privacy policy by EU data regulators
- Rent-to-Own Laptops Secretly Photographed Users Having Sex, FTC Says
- Students Refusing Tracking ID Cards Unable to Vote for Homecoming?
- Microsoft DMCA Notice 'Mistakenly' Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Govt
- "Online Thug" DMCAs Critic's Site Off The Internet Over 16-Word Quote
- How a single DMCA notice took down 1.45 million education blogs
- Artist Can’t Get Pirated Music Off iTunes, Google and Microsoft Stores--"When The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, found out that another artist was selling a “copy” of his music, he learned that it is pretty much impossible to get it removed. According to Jordan the mainstream music industry only cares about profits, not the actual artists."
- Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing--Six strikes and you're out, but not before you get a little reeducation.
- File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers
- Swedish Pirate Party Surges After File-Sharing Host Facility Raided--"Following a police raid on the hosting facility PRQ that coincided with technical problems at the iconic The Pirate Bay, the Swedish Pirate Party is surging in member and activist count."
- Going blind? DRM will dim your world--"Many of us will start losing our eyesight as we age. The digital world can help get round some of these physical impediments - but not if digital rights management and the like blocks our accessibility."
- Übertroll firm bags DRM patent for 3D printing
- PSP Comic Store closing October 30--"PSP and PSP Go owners... will not be able to re-download most comics purchased."
- Paypal bans users from joining class action suits
- PayPal Wants to Limit Your Legal Rights Against Them, Here's a Way Around That
- Paypal suspends domestic transactions in Argentina--"Locals were setting up two accounts under different email addresses and transferring money between the two, exchanging local currency pesos for dollars in the process."
