An organizer of a federal hearing held at Harvard Law School yesterday is criticizing a cable company for using “seat warmers” that prevented some people from attending.
Germany’s highest court has ruled that the government may not use spy software to access information on personal computers absent a warrant and exceptional reasons to do so.
YouTube was inaccessible to Internet users in many countries for as long as two hours on Sunday after Pakistan blocked access in protest of a video clip it deemed to…
A magistrate judge has targeted what she calls the recording industry’s “clever scheme” to obtain discovery against multiple defendants accused of file sharing by joining them in single lawsuits.
New York’s attorney general is teaming up with social networking website on proposed legislation that would bar registered sex offenders from sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
A federal judge in Wyoming has ordered a company called AccuSearch Inc. to stop using pretexting to obtain and sell personal information from consumer phone records
The virtual online world of Second Life has shut down about a dozen of its pretend financial institutions following complaints that they failed to pay…
A Chicago lawyer who is being criticized, along with his law firm, in an anonymous Internet blog supposedly authored by a fellow attorney has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone…
MySpace has teamed up with prosecutors throughout the country to develop a set of principles for Internet use by teenagers that may become an industry standard. The social networking site…
A national tort reform group is highlighting a recent study by a medical think tank that criticizes Internet sites created by trial attorneys, contending that they are a significant source…
A Colombian engineer pleaded guilty in federal court in Miami yesterday to a 16-count indictment concerning an identity fraud scheme that netted him up to $750,000 from unsuspecting business travelers…
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