SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders. The change of heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for the…
NEW YORK (AP) – A federal appeals court in New York has revived a lawsuit that accuses major record labels controlling 80 percent of U.S. digital music sales of scheming to charge high prices. The lawsuit brought by music purchasers had been tossed out by a lower court judge. The…
On June 26, 1997, in the first Internet-related U.S. Supreme Court case ever to be decided, seven justices found the disputed provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court, and was joined by Justices Breyer, Ginsburg,…
FTC BEGINS COMPREHENSIVE PRIVACY REVIEW THROUGH PUBLIC ROUNDTABLES On December 7, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began the first of three public “Exploring Privacy” roundtables. To an extent, the FTC is at a similar stage as it was in 1989 when it held its conference on online profiling (now…
Facebook Privacy Changes Claimed as Unfair and Deceptive On December 17, 2009, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) petitioned the Federal Trade Commission claiming that changes to Facebook user privacy settings constituted an unfair and deceptive practice. In early November and December, 2009, Facebook changed the process by which users…
Dear Blog Members: In this first blog I have posted information that was obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s website relating cyber crimes and computer intrusions. As an attorney, I believe that consumers need to be aware of the risks involved in using computers at home or your workplace.…