The Center for Democracy & Technology has issued its wish list for the Obama administration and, high on the agenda, is a call for new privacy laws.» 0 Comments
NBC's Jeff Zucker seems exceptionally bearish about the Web these days. In a lunchtime keynote address at the UBS global media conference today, he said that online ad growth at sites like Hulu.com had proved disappointing recently.» 0 Comments
Should colleges pay a fee to the record labels for students to have access to unlimited music? That idea has been floated for a while, as has the concept of a broader ISP-level "music tax." Now, it looks as if proponents of the idea are making a more serious push.» 0 Comments
Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, who leads the defense team representing alleged file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum, isn't just taking on the record industry in court. He's also tapping into Web 2.0 with the new Facebook group "Joel Fights Back Against the RIAA." » 0 Comments
In what sounds like a throwback to an early century, a Colorado resident has been charged with criminal libel for comments that he made about his ex-girlfriend on Craigslist.» 0 Comments
When the AT&T-backed Future of Privacy Forum launched last month, some industry observers assumed the group had an anti-Google agenda, while others took a wait-and-see attitude. But in the last week, it's looking more and more like the group's core mission includes bashing Internet ad companies in general, and Google in particular.» 5 Comments
The AT&T-backed think tank Future of Privacy Forum has launched its first initiative: a campaign warning consumers how search engines store their queries and marketers use online cookies.» 0 Comments
In a compromise verdict, a jury returned a misdemeanor conviction in the landmark MySpace suicide case, convicting the defendant but rejecting the felony charges. The jury found 49-year-old Lori Drew guilty of three misdemeanor counts of accessing a computer without authorization. The jurors couldn't reach a verdict on a fourth charge of conspiracy.» 0 Comments
Adware and spyware have caused a lot of damage to people's computers, but mainly the harm has been limited to the cost of repairing a hard drive. Now, however, it's clear that a malware application has wreaked havoc beyond a fixable computer problem. Connecticut resident Julie Amero now has a criminal record and will lose her teaching license, thanks to an infected computer» 0 Comments
