Posted by Simon Perry on 10 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Government, Security, UK, Legal
The loss of private records of 25 million residents by a UK government department continues to make headlines.
The News of the World newspaper have obtained a March 2004 letter from Treasury risk manager Richard Fennelly following his analysis of the security of the child benefit records system.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 9 November 2007 | Tagged as: Services, USA, Legal
It appears that Hushmail isn’t quite as secure as it was initially thought to be.
Up to this point, it was thought that Hushmail was completely secure as messages were stored encrypted. Indeed Hushmail used to boast that not even their engineers would be able to read messages of users.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 25 October 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Legal
Two people in Newport, Isle of Wight have been arrested and bailed over an alleged copyright infringement.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 23 October 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Legal
As many people are starting to realised TV-Link, a site which linked to TV programmes of many types, has been shut down and the man behind it arrested.
Details were reported last Friday, with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) being behind the action.
The site had been a firm favourite with those at Digital-Lifestyles, as it made […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 22 October 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Legal
Sheffield Wednesday FC fails to unmask seven ‘defamatory’ posters on fans site.
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 October 2007 | Tagged as: Adult Content, Video Services, Government, USA, Legal
Regina Lynn has an informative and impassioned piece on Wired about a proposed US law that will extend requirements currently placed on porn studios to include online social networks, such as YouPorn.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 17 October 2007 | Tagged as: YouTube, Services, Web 2.0, Google, Legal
Beta application allows content owners to block copyrighted material
Posted by Simon Perry on 26 September 2007 | Tagged as: Business, USA, VoIP, Legal
The shares in US VoIP firm Vonage dropped as low as 33.2% down on Tuesday in reaction to yesterday’s patent case order against them. They’re down a further 19.2% 23.1% today, as we write.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 21 September 2007 | Tagged as: USA, Licensing, Open Source, Legal
US company, Monsoon Multimedia is being taken to court for violating the terms of the open source NGU General Public License (GPL) of the BusyBox project.
This is the first time this has happened in the US, as previous infringements have been sorted out through correspondence and talking. Having been through this process already and not […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 September 2007 | Tagged as: Government, Microsoft, Europe, Legal
With the overview of Microsoft losing of their European appeal against the European court case completed, we thought you’d appreciate the actual judgement handed down.
1. Annuls Article 7 of Commission Decision 2007/53/EC of 24 March 2004 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 82 [EC] and Article 54 of the […]
