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Secret IP Treaty Proposal Rubs Tech WrongThe negotiations over the International Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that concluded another round this week in Seoul, South Korea, prompts watchdog groups to complain to President Obama about Hollywood's influence over the talks and the lack of transparency surrounding the entire negotiations....
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Metadata in State Documents Is Public Record, Court Rules | Threat Level | Wired.comArizona’s Supreme Court, in a surprising but welcome ruling, has declared that electronic metadata is part of the public record under state law, in a case involving an Arizona police officer who suspects his superiors of backdating a document related to his work performance. Phoenix, Arizona, ...
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Judge orders Facebook spammer to pay site $711 million - Oct. 30, 2009A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the web site with junk messages. "We won another battle in the fight against spam," said Facebook, which announced the Oct. 29 ruling on its Web site on Friday. Wallace, who has also been ...
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Facebook agrees with Canada on privacy controls by AP: Yahoo! TechFacebook agreed Thursday to give users more control over the information they share with outside applications like games and quizzes in response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials. Currently, people who wish to use such software have to agree to share all their data with the ...
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Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo fight Google Books - Aug. 21, 2009Three of Google's biggest online rivals have joined the fight against a court settlement that would give Google the rights to sell millions of books on the Internet. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) confirmed Friday that it has agreed to join a coalition opposing the Google deal. Amazon (AMZN, ...
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2Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo fight Google Books - Aug. 21, 2009How dare you make money that we can't also get! So some "icons" of "innovation" and "free enterprise" want the government to ensure their access to profits!? SOCIALISM! Oh, sorry, if it's business doing it (redistribution of wealth, denial of services or "rights", subversion of or using the ...JDP added 2 months ago
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2German teacher loses battle against pupils' web rankingsConsidering some suppression of student (especially high school) views (posters, etc. - even "off school grounds"!) in the US and other "western democracies", maybe those governments have something to learn from Germany!JDP added 4 months ago
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2EC wants software makers held liable for code - ZDNet.co.ukYou go EU! Well past time that software doesn't mean "you buy it and get whatever gunk we decide to give you" (regardless of hype and marketing). A "license" that says "you have no rights to expect anything except that we will take your money" has too long been a legal loophole for shoddy ...JDP added 5 months ago
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2Eye-socket camera films from inside the head | Crave - CNET... and creepy. Would this run afoul of some "expectation of privacy" (say in a rest room or communal shower?), or is it like a conversation can sometimes be recorded electronically so long as one party knows the recording is going on?JDP added 7 months ago
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2They're Taking Their Brains and Going Home - washingtonpost.comIF we really want to "solve" this problem, then we MUST "discriminate" in several ways. First, we must scrap the system of quotas by country and go with a rating of all applicants across the board - not only by their merit but also by what the US needs. Second, we must delink the green card ...JDP added 8 months ago
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