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The University of California at San Diego has taken alot of flack for their attempt to force a student site to remove web links to revolutionary groups on university owned servers. See my previous posting on this topic. The University has now decided to recind their demand on basis of the students right to free …
Jurist, the legal education network, a terrific site of legal news, views and resources, has added daily links to Supreme Court news .
The Virginia Transportation Department took actions against 86 employees ranging from firing to suspension of pay for two weeks. The majority of the employees were accessing Internet porn.
The International Labour Organization sponsors the ILOLEX searchable database, available in English, French and Spanish. Users may choose to browse in categories of documents (including ILO Constitution, ILC Standing Orders, ILO Conventions and ILO Recommendations), use the Universal Query Form or conduct a free-text search.
Key logging software has been around for quite awhile. Companies use it to ‘virtually’ stand over the shoulders of employees and read every letter typed on their keyboards. But this software is also used by hackers to commit identity theft, as was the case with nefarious installations on the computer systems of major universities throughout …
Rory Perry, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, is a pioneer who has transformed the dissemination of his court’s decisions via his summaries and direct links to cases on hisweblog.
The RIAA and Voice of The Webcasters (VOW) issued a brief joint statement on the House voice vote on H.R. 5469.
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 …
