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Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices

Credit card number of thiefI assume that the person using a stolen Kindle must have to provide Amazon with a credit card, in order to buy content (assuming the previous owner's credit card was disabled). If so, that means that Amazon even knows who the thief is.I supposeIf the manufacturers...

Tags: Sales channel, Amazon.com Inc., subpoena

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

NJ court: IP-related info is private

Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....

Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Judge slams FBI fishing expedition at Amazon

How would you feel if you bought a book through Amazon and then found out your book purchasing records had been turned over to the FBI? Would it make you think twice about shopping at Amazon in the future? Amazon think so, and it turns out, so does a federal...

Tags: Subpoena, FBI, Customer, Amazon.com Inc., Book Buyer, Government, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-28

Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind” of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants.Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of...

Tags: Congress, Intelligence, Privacy

Blog posts 2007-06-28

School files defamation claim against Wikipedia

The vagaries of free speech on the Internet are being challenged once again in a case against Wikipedia for anonymously publishing critical comments about a private Catholic high school in Omaha, Nebraska, reports eSchool News. The school, VJ and Angela Skutt Catholic High School, is suing Wikipedia over the...

Tags: Wiki, Internet service providers (ISPs), subpoena, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-07-27

Justice Dept. subpoenas go far beyond search companies

The Justice Dept. has sent out to subpoenas to far more companies than Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and AOL. In fact, Information Week reports, at least 34 companies have received subpoenas from Justice as part of their discovery for a lawsuit challenging the Child Online Protection Act. Other major companies receiving...

Tags: subpoena

Blog posts 2006-03-31

Judge denies DoJ access to searches

Judge James Ware has granted the DoJ access to 50,000 URLs from Google's database, but denied access to any search queries according to an official statement from Google on their blog. Originally the subpoena requested that Google provide billions of URLs and two months of search queries performed by...

Tags: Google Inc., JUDGE

Blog posts 2006-03-17

EXCLUSIVE: here's the complete AMD Skype subpoena

Larger images at this link. Earlier this week, chip-maker AMD served Skype with a subpoena, demanding more information about what AMD views as an unfair a deal between Skype and AMD rival Intel that lets 10 individuals participate in Skype calls on some Intel-powered PCs. On the other hand,...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-03-01

In civil and criminal cases, Internet subpoenas are business as usual

In civil and criminal cases, Internet subpoenas are business as usualWe've got to amend the laws, regardless of how Bush feelsIt's obviously in the best interest of all freedom-loving Americans, whether progressives, conservatives, or libertarians, to push Congress to enact far tighter restrictions on these subpoenas, lest we all become...

Tags: subpoena, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Google's resistance more about trade secrets than privacy

When all your competitors hand over their customer's search data to the government, it doesn't take a Ph.D. in PR to figure out there's a certain publicity value in standing tall. After all, the blogosphere was knocking itself over trying to sing the praises of Google as Marshall Will Kane....

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-01-23

EFF: 'Annoy' law could damage right to anonymity

If the new "annoy" provision of the Telecommunication Act goes unchallenged, says EFF attorney Kurt Opsahl, it opens very substantial restrictions on Internet users' First Amendment rights. (Note that the law excludes "Internet computer services,"so the concern is chiefly with VoIP services. The law makes illegal anonymous communications ...

Tags: INTERNET, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, subpoena, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Blog posts 2006-01-16

Additional Resources

EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...

Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices

Remember the story about the guy who tracked down his stolen iPhone with MobileMe? All very well as long as he tracked the thieves down on his own, but this Times article says that most manufacturers aren't at all excited about helping customers who've lost devices. ...

Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Smart Phones, Mobile Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-06

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

IT Security: Context is King

One of the big blockers for enterprise collaboration uptake is ediscovery and compliance - and depending on the business entity the familiarity, processes and confidence in dealing with legal issues. This is a broad topic, but you can simplify it down into two broad camps: companies that are set up...

Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Strategy, Security, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-20

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about moneyRIAA is a dangerous criminal organizationThere is only one victim here, that poor woman, they destroyed her life, and for what?Of course she lied that her kids were the one, that she hadn't known etc. She was trying to get away...

Tags: CD, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules

updated below: Craigslist apparently has caved to the pressures of state attorneys general who cracked the whip on the "erotic services" section of the site. The Illinois Attorney General has said that craigslist will get rid of the "erotic" services category on the classified site and will...

Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Ban Mobile Devices and Driving

Ban Mobile Devices and Drivinggood ideea but hard to enforceThere is a good reason why you have to pass a visual test to get a driving license and you can't drive while intoxicated.It is because you have to prove that you are not a danger to yourself or others.Conducting activities...

Tags: Cellular phones, Ban Mobile Devices, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Joe Biden: Carrying water for Hollywood?

Is Joe Biden the copyright industry's point man in the Obama Administration? He certainly has an anti-piracy track record. And the Justice Department is now lousy with RIAA lawyers, as Tiny Mix Tapes points out. Thomas Perrelli, nominated as Associate Attorney General on...

Tags: RIAA, Lawyer, U.S. Department Of Justice, Perrelli, Verrilli, Hauck, Solicitor General, Gershengorn, Piracy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Shock horror! Amazon makes profit on Kindle 2 sales!

Shock horror! Amazon makes profit on Kindle 2 sales!However this can be compared to the game console industrywhich routinely makes losses on hardware and makes up for it on the selling of games. Amazon figures to make a tidy sum on each book or subscription sale, so why does it...

Tags: Research & Development, Games, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-22