As I wrote on September 30th, the battle over the expansion of the CALEA regulations (which stands for the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Agencies) is underway. A lawsuit filed on October 25, 2005 before the D.C. circuit asks for review of the FCC’s final order. Seven organizations, including the American Library Association, the Electronic…
Month: October 2005
Google Print: Now it’s the publisher’s turn
In September, I mentioned the case filed by the Author’s Guild over the Google Print initiative. Today, the Publishers have joined in. Here is a link to the press release from the Association of American Publishers. “The publishing industry is united behind this lawsuit against Google and united in the fight to defend their rights,”…
Anonymous Blogging Upheld
The recent decision of the Delaware Supreme Court in Doe v. Cahill is interesting. Evan Brown of InternetCases.com gives a great summary of the case in his posting today. The higher standard used by the Court before it would unmask the identity of the anonymous blogger is a good practice. The requester was required to…
Excellent article on responses to Phishing
Here is an excellent article on the response taken by a bank (whose identity is kept anonymous in the article) to a Phishing attack. (Link courtesy of beSpacific)
Attention – Part III
Here comes the Attention Recorder! Introduced today by AttentionTrust.org is a Firefox extension that allows users to save their attention data and to share it with services that are als0 members of the Attention Trust. It doesn’t look like that there is anybody to share it with yet, I presume that the entry for “Acme…