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The Difficult Balance Between Liberty and Security is an op-ed by George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen. He notes that there will not likely be much balance in regard to upcoming decisions involving security and technology issues in light of the broad application of the Patriot Act.
Via MSNBC.com, you can read an article by Steven Levy, Glitterati vs. Geeks Two heavyweights, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, take the fight over content to the Supremes.
According to the Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN), this afternoon the House passed by voice vote a manager’s amendment on H.R. 5469, agreed to last night by the respective parties. It allows royalties to be paid as a percentage fee of revenue rather than on a per-song fee basis. Please see 148 Cong.Rec. H7043-01 for …
The RIAA and Voice of The Webcasters (VOW) issued a brief joint statement on the House voice vote on H.R. 5469.
On October 4, Amazon posted their new privacy policy indicating what personal data the site collects from customers, as well as how and what personal data it repurposes for third party use.
The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Specht v Netscape on October 1, according to this InternetNews article. This facts of the case were the topic of previous article on July 2000, Lawsuit Accuses Netscape of Eavesdropping. Netscapes’ SmartDownload http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/2nd/case/017860&exact=1 http://www.atnewyork.com/news/print.php/1474381 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3_410521
cyberSLAPP.org maintains a library of briefs for researchers to track cases in which users of e-mail or web sites were sued for their speech and ISP’s were sued for access to personal data on such individuals.
Internet content solutions company N2H2 and Harvard law student Benjamin G. Edelman are battling over his project to obtain and disseminate a list of sites that N2H2 software blocks. The case summary and documents are here.
An Online Journalism Review article posted on October 3, focuses on the intensifying debate over the availability of personal data on the Web, and specifically on the evolution of California case law on privacy rights. It is important to note that personal data finds its way to the Web through a number of database streams, …
There is a growing concern in the U.S. about state sponsored Internet censorship in countries throughout the world. Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman at Harvard are skillfully documenting this activity. Now Congress is responding to Web filtering with a bi-partisan legislative initiative, H.R. 5524. This bill seeks to “develop and deploy technologies to defeat Internet …
Public Knowledge (PK) is a relatively new advocacy group whose agenda is to maintain free and open public access to digital data. According to President and co-founder Gigi B. Sohn, PK seeks to “promote a balanced approach to copyright policy that reflects the “cultural bargain” intended by the framers of the constitution – creators and …
Declan McCullagh’s coverage of the RIAA v. Verizon cases notes that at issue are copyright, privacy and free speech arguments. The two companies are battling over access to the identity of a subscriber accused of file trading. Declan links to an amicus brief filed on behalf of Verizon by high profile advocacy groups that include …
