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Court decision poses serious privacy threat

A little Fourth Amendment law: Warrants are required when law enforcement wants to violate citizens' reasonable expectations of privacy. The Supreme Court has held, for instance, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when driving a car, since you are putting yourself in public view and using public streets,...

Tags: Privacy, Courts

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Best Buy lawyer falsified emails in class action suit

When it rains it pours buckets of legal problem for Best Buy, who had another predicament sprung on them the other day. One of the lawyers who is defending the company against a class-action lawsuit has confessed to "faking two e-mails and a memo" related to the suit, reports Ars...

Tags: Courts

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Huge anti-spam suit targets email harvesters

Unspam Technologies, a company that consults with government agencies and private companies, and with users in 100 countries, filed suit today seeking the identity of those who have harvested millions of emails on behalf of spammers, The Washington Post reports. Attorney Jon Praed of the Internet Law Group said...

Tags: Courts, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Who owns public employees' emails when they're about 'private' subjects?

Are email messages between public employees using public computers considered private property? Would that protect the emails from a states open-records law? Thats the question the Idaho Supreme Court is being asked to decide, reports the Associated Press. The dispute is betweeen the The Spokesman-Review newspaper on one...

Tags: Open government, Government technology, Courts

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Additional Resources

Selling customer information leads to prosecution

What's the big deal?Isn't this how everyone does it? My boss would routinely buy millions of data records from companies to conduct email campaigns.Ah, but in Great BritainThey have made it TOTALLY illegal to sell data records. You cannot do stuff like this period over there, and I applaud...

Tags: Asset management, INTERNET, Big Deal, asset, customer information

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Microsoft delivers new Zune HD games; Twitter and Facebook still to come

RE: Microsoft delivers new Zune HD games; Twitter and Facebook still to comOH BOYY!! CHECKERS??!! OMFG AWESOME!!Message has been deleted.can't you sample tonnes of music for free on radio?broadcast or on internet radio if you want to listen to very specific song.. or just sample for free via internet downloads.....

Tags: Twitter Inc., Facebook, pickup truck, Microsoft Zune, flaw, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp., radio, Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple Inc., game

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

It's public versus private in dispute over electronics recycling laws

Kinda like the business yokels that want an educated workforce ....but don't want to pay their share of school taxes (supposedly because business can't get pregnant).Another fall flat on it's face waste of money and courts unless of course if you are a lawyer.putting the cart before the horse, should...

Tags: e-waste law

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?

I wanted the Red TruckBut I wanted the red truck.Oh no, that was a limited time offer, says so right here in the fine print.Even kids know its wrong to hide behind fine print...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiAvHPPc8M8$150,000 is a little excessiveBut I like to think that Mr. Orwell's spirit is smiling at the...

Tags: Litigation, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle/1984 thing, Kindle/1984

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground

this is only on the broken USA copyright and court system.not every one lives in the united states of america...Was it ever really about combatting piracy?"It?s amazing how the focus has shifted from combating piracy to taking as much money as possible off customers."Considering how much they've been using DRM,...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Are Enterprise Content Management failures destroying the American system of justice?

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="photo: plu.edu"][/caption] As if dying trees and disgruntled employees aren’t bad enough consequences of poor enterprise content management systems, according to Michael Hickins, lousy Enterprise Content Management ECM could be chipping away at the very heart of American justice. This talk of justice...

Tags: Enterprise Content Management, Michael Hickins, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-07-27

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...

Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you!

Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you!Here in the US it IS a problem.The US Government convicted MS of the same misdeeds as the EU - only Bush came into power and the punishments were back-heeled - remember the 95% share of the browser market Netscape had?Because they...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7 Upgrade, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Court says Pirate Bay judge not biased

Court says Pirate Bay judge not biasedbullcrap Its the same thing if a judge here was a member of the nra and was judging in a case again a gun manufacturer. What a load of crap Is there a point?Biased or not doesn't change what Pirate Bay has...

Tags: Pirate Bay, supreme

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement

Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringementPretty frivolous patent hereAbout on the level of Microsoft's Page Up/Page Down patent.Live by the patent sword, die by the patent swordMicrosoft are 'disappointed' that once again they have been caught out stealing other people's ideas, incorpoarting those ideas into their own branded...

Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegal

Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegalproof reader anyone?Richard , what does the following mean?"since anyone searching on the word will the sponsored links of her competitors at the top of Google results page, The New York Times reports."Any chance of me working as your proof reader?RE: Class...

Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Google Inc., class action

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

The Android name kerfluffle

The Android name kerfluffleRE: The Android name kerflufflehow do you copywrite something that, by all means, is a definition of something? Andriod is a noun, neither Google nor Specht have a right to the name... I suppose the question is, if he's a software company, what is he...

Tags: Robots, Branding, Andriod, Google Inc., Android Inc., extra-strength vibration, Hemroid, vibration feature, Fembot, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-05-03

Courts' PACER system hides law, exposes private data

Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant. Electric light is the most efficient policeman. It has always been my view that when the people of this Nation watch their Government in action, they come to better understand how our governing institutions work and equip themselves to hold those institutions...

Tags: Private Data, Law, Court, E-government, Social Security, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to us

Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to usJust reply, NO!One of our local newspaper writers responded to similar tactics from credit card companies by imposing HIS own set of rules on THEIR transactions to his account.You might try sending a similarly worded notice accepting their...

Tags: Modems, Comcast Corp., cable, modem, agreement

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?

Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?What did MS do wrong?They are not bound by the GPL. They are free to license their technology to anyone they want, under terms agreeable to both. (I assume there might be some Federal restrictions there, but I don't think we crossed that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MS Just, FAT32, Microsoft Corp., Software Freedom Sue, GPL, MSFT, software

Discussion threads 2009-03-07