Privacy Digest
News and analysis on issue that have an impact on privacy and privacy law.
Author: Paul Hardwick is a technology consultant.
Blawg Related Categories: Internet Law • Media & Communications Law • Legal Technology • Consultant
Recent Posts from Privacy Digest
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Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com
Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com - Via Slashdot : ThinkingInBinary writes "The other day, I was trying to mention bugmenot.com in my Facebook status, and I discovered to my horror that Facebook blocks the…
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UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data
UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online: Death Metal Maniac sends along a link from TorrentFreak on the latest development in game developer Topwear's battle against…
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Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show
Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online: Nick writes "A few weeks ago a video of a talk given by Adam Savage of the television show MythBusters…
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Privacy Policies are Great --- for PhDs
Privacy Policies are Great — for PhDs - Via Technology Industry Blog | BNET: Major Internet companies say that they inform their customers about privacy issues through specially written policies. What they don’t say is…
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Judge Shielding IDs of Online News Commenters
Judge Shielding IDs of Online News Commenters - Via Threat Level: A Montana state judge is ruling that the identities of anonymous commenters posted on news sites are protected by a state's media shield law.…
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EA's Spore Spawns on BitTorrent
EA's Spore Spawns on BitTorrent - Via Threat Level: Less than a day before it release, video game Spore began making the rounds Thursday on the usual BitTorrent free sites like ThePirateBay, Mininova and others.…
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Comcast Appeals FCC Throttling Order
Comcast Appeals FCC Throttling Order - Via Threat Level: Comcast on Thursday appealed the Federal Communication Commission's order that it stop its controversial practice of throttling file sharing traffic. On Aug. 1, FCC commissioners concluded…
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ISPs Will All Spy on Their Customers, Professor Warns
ISPs Will All Spy on Their Customers, Professor Warns - Via Threat Level: If there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no further than the company you pay for broadband.…
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No 'Legitimate' Privacy Expectation in Data on Office Computer, Court Says
No 'Legitimate' Privacy Expectation in Data on Office Computer, Court Says - Via Law.com : An employee has no reasonable expectation of privacy in personal files stored on a company-owned computer and an employer's consent…
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ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns
ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns - Via Threat Level: Online privacy scored a small victory this week as the CEO for controversial net eavesdropping firm NebuAD resigned just months after Congress successfully…