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FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
Newsvine - FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills: Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. Do you feel safe yet? This sort of thing makes me wonder if privacy concerns about government monitoring are overblown, simply […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Meraki proposes free Wi-Fi network for S.F.
Mountain View’s Meraki proposes free Wi-Fi network for S.F.: San Francisco’s plan to provide citywide wireless Internet access, which foundered last summer when EarthLink pulled out, is being revived by a Mountain View company that wants to turn the city into a test site for its vision of a low-cost, community-powered system. For what would […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
The Open Contract
Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab - The Open Contract:A Fred Wilson makes an excellent case for why users should be more aware of where their data is being harvested. He raises concerns about GoogleaEUR™s aggressive march toward what can be loosely described as a data monopoly, where the scale of the pool of data creates a barrier […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
RIAA Behaving Badly; Let’s Cut Their Copyright Privileges
RIAA Behaving Badly; Let’s Cut Their Copyright Privileges - Wolfe’s Den Blog - InformationWeek: Innocent consumers are being bothered by another round of the record industry behaving badly, via more lawsuits and anti-copying threats. This time, though, I’ve got a solution. We should do what we do to children who misbehave: Take away their privileges. […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
Do the U.S. News Rankings Matter?
Law Blog - WSJ.com: Do the U.S. News Rankings Matter?: Cameron Stracher’s essays on the legal profession, which often appear in the WSJ, have been the subject of some of our more provocative posts. Today Stracher, a professor at New York Law, continues his run with a WSJ op-ed picking apart the U.S. News & […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Rothman on Custom in Intellectual Property
Legal Theory Blog: Rothman on Custom in Intellectual Property: The treatment of customary practices has been widely debated in many areas of the law, but there has been virtually no discussion of how custom is and should be treated in the context of intellectual property (IP). Nevertheless, customs have a profound impact on both de […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Social Networks - Why You Should Care
Slaw: Social Networks - Why You Should Care: How can you leverage emerging knowledge about social networking? Here are some suggestions: Use social sites for screening applicants Use social sites for alumni (Hill and Knowlton and Siemens did this instead of creating their own internal alumni databases) Use social sites for recruitment (Ernst & Young […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy - New York Times
In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy - New York Times: The record industry got a surprise when it subpoenaed the University of Oregon in September, asking it to identify 17 students who had made available songs on a file-sharing network. The surprise was not that 20-year-olds listen to Sting. It was […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims
The Register: No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government’s request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. At issue is whether […]
November 2007 / 1 min.
Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP
Official Gmail Blog - Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP: Sync your inbox across devices instantly and automatically. Whether you read or write your email on your phone or on your desktop, changes you make to Gmail will be seen from anywhere you access your inbox. Don’t fret if you don’t see “IMAP […]
October 2007 / 1 min.