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Ghostery.com: Not Just A Cool Icon
David Cancel just created a wonderful privacy enhancing technology for Firefox---up there with Ad Blocker Plus in my view. In a simple and straightforward way,…
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German Court Orders to Block wikipedia.de Due to Offending Article
Here’s another bizarre Internet case that makes you wonder…. Typing now into your favorite Internet browser the address www.wikipedia.de (the German Wikipedia)…
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Navigenics And 23andMe Commit To Fight Unreasonable Subpoenas
I learned something very interesting in preparing for last evening’s panel (PDF) on consumer genomics we recently co-sponsored with the Center for Law and the B…
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Supreme Court of Virginia Invalidates Virginia’s Anti-Spam Statute As Overbroad
Author: Jenny Kim Jaynes was convicted in 2004 of sending large volumes of spam from his Raleigh computer to AOL addresses on the company’s Virginia-based serv…
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Fair Use Project Files Suit On Behalf Of Brave New Films Against Michael Savage and Original Talk Radio Network
Michael Savage has one of the most popular shows on the radio. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind, no matter how controversial his views. He should be…
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Albany Business Review Tries To Use Bogus Copyright Claim To Silence NY Assembly Candidate
Not all campaign controversies fill the national stage. But this one should get national attention for being so abusive. Mark Blanchfield is challenging Georg…
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Congress Contemplates Protecting Travelers
As Jennifer Granick noted noted in April, the Ninth Circuit has held that government agents need not have reasonable suspicion in order to search laptops or oth…
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EFF Sues NSA, Bush, And Others Over Illegal Surveillance
Worth it just for the graphic. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government a…
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Dog Bites Man - Software Edition
Last year, I complained about the Cablevision case (see Href=http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Opinions/IP-Law-Versus-Moores-Law/>”IP Law vs Moore’s Law”),…
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Microsoft Takes InPrivate Public
Microsoft has recently blogged the details of its “InPrivate” browsing and blocking feature for IE8. InPrivate is a bona fide privacy-enhancing technology; Mic…
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Stanford's Center For Internet And Society Seeks Leave To File Amicus Curiae Brief in Bunnell v. MPAA
On Thursday, July 31, 2008, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School sought leave to file a "friend of the court" brief before the U…
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Gmailosaurus
It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.” (What’s “wired”? Worrying about privacy on Goog…