The secret blogger behind the UK police blog Night Jack has had a legal setback in his quest to remain anonymous. The UK High Court has refused to preserve the anonymity of the policeman who has blogged about his work and government ministers. The BBC is reporting that because the blogging touched on political issues, [...]
Pirate Bay supporters are screaming holy murder after it was discovered the judge in the case was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association, the same group that also counts as members the entertainment industry’s attorneys. Regardless of the political feelings on this case one way or another, there may very well be a retrial [...]
Proxy servers are a great way to hide your identity, and are a pretty common thing on the Internet, especially for corporations trying to shield their worker’s computers from the dangers of the Internet.
But now the use of a proxy could be seen as ‘sophistication’ such that it would incur harsher penalties from a court.
The [...]
This makes five if you lost count.
Monday’s naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department’s deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Gershengorn, [...]
With a scare headline like that, you know your post will get attention. So the EFF went ahead and is running a story about how the Obama team is now following a line of legal thinking that is ‘worse than Bush‘ when it comes to warrantless wiretaps. At issue is the ability to sue to [...]
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