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Knocking at Privacy’s Door
My Opinion Counts | 5 hours ago by Karen Moser
Have you ever gone to YouTube to look at funny, strange and interesting videos? Did you know that Google, the company that owns YouTube, has a record of every transaction you ever made. It is not illegal to look at videos. It is not illegal to upload read more
Google Out Evils Viacom
Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whaterver | 14 hours ago by Becky
All those who are assailing Viacom, and the federal judge who ordered the release of 2 terabytes of data on the viewing habits of approximated 100 million users of YouTube (including IP address, login, usernames, videos watched), never point a mi read more
Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy
Life, Ain't It Simple! | 17 hours ago
Orenh writes "Viacom has newly obtained a court order that requires Google to hand over a completed list of every video watched by YouTube users. These logs will include the login names and IP addresses of the users. Google are now asking Viacom if t read more
CIA Head, General Michael V. Hayden: Democratic America And Press…
Gun-Toting Liberal | 22 hours ago
Air Force General Michael V. Hayden Implies Liberals And Those "MSM Gotchya Moments" Are Making It Harder For The CIA To Break The Law The Washington Post's Joby Warrick reports today on General Hayden's whiny tirade against the press and the curren read more
Viacom
Drgn24b's Blog | July 5th 2008 by michael brooks
Ok, so everyone knows about whats happening with Viacom taking all the videos off of the youtube website and reviewing it, as well as reviewing peoples viewing histories and IP addresses. But isn't that a step to far? Isn't this breaking into our pri read more
Virgin Media invia 800 lettere agli amanti del p2p
Tentativi | July 5th 2008 by Ant Lang
Virgin Media ha inviato circa 800 lettere che avvisano gli utenti circa il monitoraggio della loro attività di downloading illegale.Questo invio è il primo di una campagna che durerà almeno 10 settimane ed è condotta di comune accordo con l'assoc read more
Wards Will Now Start Notifying Customers Their Information Was St…
Blogger News Network | July 5th 2008
The Associated Press announced on Friday that old time retailer Montgomery Ward is the latest victim of a data breach, where at least 51,000 records were compromised. The unfortunate problem now is they failed to notify the victims, which is the law read more
Learning the Basics of RSS
Webatlantis | July 5th 2008 by TheVoyager
What is RSS? You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a read more
links for 2008-07-05
Chip's Quips | July 5th 2008 by Sterling Camden
America Rules, England Sucks (Video) From my British pal Jim, who came to America to steal all our tech jobs and bass player gigs. (tags: video satire england america humor patriotism) Google Must Divulge Video Viewing Habits Of Every YouTube User read more
The Shocking Truth About Twitter
Coffee With Allan Cockerill... | July 4th 2008 by Allan Cockerill
Shocking truth about free networking sites! Paul Chaney’s crusade has had me thinking about Twitter and other “free” social media platforms! The truth is that they are anything BUT free. When you set up a profile on a site such as read more
Court Orders Google to Disclose Personal Info
OmniNerd | July 4th 2008
Since YouTube caught on a few years ago, people have uploaded clips of their favorite TV shows and movies as well as videos they made themselves, which has of course raised the ire of media producers. Yesterday, during a court case on the legality o read more
Youtube : chiesto oltre un miliardo di dollari di risarcimento
Tentativi | July 4th 2008 by Ant Lang
Si sta per scatenare una nuova 'guerra' sulla Rete, e stavolta nemmeno tanto virtuale. Youtube che e' tra i siti web piu' cliccati del mondo, per l'accesso che consente ai video, e' nella bufera: stamane, i giudici di New York gli hanno imposto di fa read more
Google backed down… really?
DoesWhat Tech News | July 4th 2008 by DoesWhat
Almost a month ago we reported Google’s reluctance to comply with Californian law (Google’s battle of beauty versus law). The California Online Privacy Protection Act states that a commercial website that collects data about it’s users read more
Il Garante rende più semplice la privacy
ANIUR - Associazione italiana uffici arredati | July 4th 2008 by gianluca
(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Roma, 01 lug - Privacy meno burocratica soprattutto per Pmi, liberi professionisti e artigiani e garanzie effettive per i cittadini. Sono i principi alla base del provvedimento generale sulla semplificazione adottato dal G read more
Your Privacy - Government Style
Another Point of View | July 4th 2008 by Pierre H. Vachon
The following article provides a cautionary tale from the U.S., showing how your private information held by the government may be (in theory) protected from outside peeking, and yet poorly protected from abusive/gratuitous/unwarranted peeping/acces read more
Google Makes Privacy More Public
The Inquisitr | July 4th 2008 by Duncan Riley
Google’s turning a new eye to privacy — a topic high on many minds following its lost battle to protect YouTube users’ data this week. The recently revamped “Privacy” section — now accesssible at the bottom of the read more
More sports and sexism
don't ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me? | July 4th 2008 by lindabeth
I’m starting to wonder if sports has become the “it” terrain for blatant sexism and creating a hostile climate for women. In the last year… Sexual Harassment of female fans by male fans at Jets’ games: nothing like a goo read more
YouTube consegnerà i dati degli utenti a Viacom
Technico Blog | July 4th 2008 by Technico Blog
La vicenda legale tra YouTube e Viacom è giunta ad un epilogo amaro per il sito di videosharing, e quindi, per Google. Un giudice di New York ha condannato il colosso di Mountain View a consegnare i dati relativi alle attività degli utenti sul sito read more
Ruining LIves
Diary of a Nudist | July 4th 2008 by nudiarist
Another teenager is facing felony charges for sending nude photos of himself to others, facing three counts of "dealing in material harmful to a minor".The 16 year-old denies the charges. His parents have already taken away his texting and photo capa read more
Your personal YouTube Viewing Habits to be Handed Over to Viacom
New Media, web 2.0 and the world from Danny Dagan | July 4th 2008 by Danny Dagan
YouTube owner Google has been forced by a New York judge to hand over the personal information of every person who has ever watched a video on the YouTube to US broadcaster Viacom, whose TV channels include MTV, Paramount and Nickelodeon. The inform read more
Happy Birthday America!
Political Byline | July 4th 2008 by Chuck Adkins
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume read more
US court orders Viacom to be given all YouTube usernames, IP addr…
The Spicy Cauldron | July 4th 2008
It’s been a week in which big business concerns have really shown their claws, what with Virgin Media colluding with the BPI in sending out letters to customers threatening them with disconnection (something Virgin now says was a “mistake read more
Dataloss via Stupidity.
.:Computer Defense:. | July 4th 2008
Sometimes we hear about dataloss via theft or loss of a computer. For the most part (assuming I don't hear about it happening to a company on a weekly basis), I can (eventually) forgive the company (even if my personal data has been lost). After all read more
Nobody's safe - Google's personal data stolen
Information Security Short Takes | July 4th 2008 by Bozidar Spirovski
Here is another example that even the largest companies cannot be safe from information security breaches, especially when using partner companies with lesser security:According to a report by ZDNet Australia, an undisclosed number of personal data r read more
It’s the End of the World as We Know It…
.:Computer Defense:. | July 4th 2008
And I feel fine... By morning most likely everyone will have blogged about the recent court ruling that Google hand over the YouTube logs to Viacom (MTV & Paramount Pictures parent company). Oddly enough I saw a clip on BBC News that was mentioni read more
WistaAntivirus
Spamzy Blog | July 4th 2008 by ByronZED
WistaAntivirus is a rogue anti-spyware program and a clone of WinDefender 2008. This parasite uses trojans, such as Zlob or Vundo, to enter the system amd to mislead the user into thinking he is infected. WistaAntivirus does this by flooding the user read more
ACLU, EFF File FOIA Suit Against US DOJ Over Cell Phone Snooping
ICWT: In Corruption We Trust | July 3rd 2008 by Keith
Most readers of ICWT are likely aware of the fact that a cell phone can be used to pysically locate someone with little difficulty, if you have access to the phone company’s network. Apparently, the government has been regularly checking up on read more
Privacy At Peril, Again
Geoff Fox - My Permanent Record | July 3rd 2008 by Geoff Fox
I have nothing to hide, but that's beside the point. I want my privacy preserved. read more
YouTube Users, Meet Your Big Other
Velvet Howler | July 3rd 2008
Some stupid judge has recently ordered that all of your (yes, you! the one in TIME’s shiny magazine reflection!) YouTube histories are now the property of the giant asshole company known as Viacom, even though this ruling explicitly violates th read more
YouTube / Viacom lawsuit poses a threat to more than just civil l…
Scholars and Rogues | July 3rd 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
In 2004, Yahoo turned over user information to the Chinese government that was used to track down a dissident journalist, Shi Tao, and send him to a labour camp. It was the moment that the Internet knew sin. Now, Judge Louis Stanton has decided to f read more
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