Judge To BlueBeat: You Can't Do That
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 6, 6:15 PM
Music fans often lament that Apple Corps. has so far refused to allow Beatles songs to be sold as digital downloads. So when BlueBeat.com started offering downloads of Beatles tracks last week, observers immediately wondered how the site could have secured the rights to the tracks. The answer soon emerged: BlueBeat didn't own the rights to the catalog. Instead, the company said it used "psycho-acoustic simulation" to rerecord the originals.
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Google Oversells Privacy Dashboard
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 5, 6:30 PM
Google today breathlessly announced the launch of its new Dashboard, which lets users see all of the information associated with their Google Account. "Transparency, choice and control have become a key part of Google's philosophy, and today, we're happy to announce that we're doing even more," the company boasts, in what is one of the biggest overstatements it's ever made.
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Hollywood Asks FCC To Back Three-Strikes Piracy Plan
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 4, 5:50 PM
Entertainment companies have been saying for a while that they'd like to see Internet service providers deal with piracy by developing "three strike" plans that could result in disconnecting copyright infringers. So far, however, U.S. ISPs haven't been all that receptive.
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EU Pressures British Government Over Phorm
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 3, 7:58 PM
European privacy regulators are continuing to press the U.K. to take action regarding secret tests conducted by controversial behavioral targeting company Phorm. The European Commission, which commenced legal proceedings in April, has now taken the case to the next level, according to The Register. If the U.K. government doesn't satisfy the European Commission within the next two months, the agency will take the case to the European Court of Justice, The Register reports.
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Senators Now Say Shield Law Should Cover Bloggers
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 2, 5:06 PM
Things are looking up for bloggers, with lawmakers once again talking about enacting a reporters' shield law that would cover journalists who aren't employed by a mainstream media outlet.
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Must Web News Be Either Quality Or Babble?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Oct 30, 6:12 PM
"The rise of the Internet as a primary source of news has undermined quality and reliability." So says the Writers Guild of America, East, in written comments submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission.
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School Tries To Sanction Unmasked Student Blogger
Posted by Wendy Davis on Oct 29, 6:11 PM
Digital rights advocates often implore judges to cast a skeptical eye on requests to unmask anonymous bloggers for purposes of filing a libel lawsuit. The danger, they warn, is that the person making the request has no intention of actually suing for libel, but will retaliate in some other way once they learn the blogger's identity.
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Privads: Better BT Alternative?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Oct 28, 10:02 PM
Some academics are now asking whether behavioral targeting has to compromise users' privacy. In a new paper, "Privads: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising," they propose a model for behavioral advertising that might not raise as many privacy concerns as cookie-based methods.
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Are Consumers Being Stiffed In Privacy Case Settlements?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Oct 27, 5:31 PM
In what could be a bad omen for Facebook's Beacon settlement, a federal judge in San Francisco has rejected a class-action settlement in a data breach lawsuit against TD Ameritrade. The judge found that the settlement wouldn't adequately compensate consumers.
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Why Does Anti-Reg Brigade Keep Linking Free Content To BT?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Oct 26, 4:43 PM
The influential journalism site Poynter Online is carrying a piece warning publishers that proposed new privacy legislation "could have a serious impact on the billions of dollars spent every year on display advertising on the Web."
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