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In the midst of Google's battle with the U.S. government to keep its users' search records private, British Telecom on Tuesday reported some disturbing figures about child pornography online. While the Bush Administration seeks to revive an online pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Cour...
The U.S. government's efforts to conduct surveillance and gather data on the nation's citizens has been aided by huge U.S. companies, specifically AT&T, which are privy to the telephone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans, according to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
Wireless carriers and the United States government are looking to block individuals from obtaining, exposing and selling mobile phone calling records. On Wednesday, Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) introduced legislation aimed at curbing the practice. The Consumer Telephone Records Protection Ac...
If corporate managers have Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to blame for late nights and lost sleep, those in the livestock and poultry industries have plenty of compliance worries of their own, triggered by NAIS, which stands for the National Animal Identification System. NAIS is a multi-year, phased-in p...
New research released this week indicates that counterfeit drug sales over the Internet are threatening to cause a major, global crisis, one that may harm the health of all. The report, "Counterfeit Drugs: Towards an Irish Response to a Global Crisis," was produced for the IPA by Dublin City Univers...
It's 2006 -- a brand new year and the entertainment cartels are already crying doom and gloom. As usual, rather than acknowledging they're the authors of their own misfortunes, they're blaming the most important people in their worlds -- their customers. Worse, they're continuing with their bizarre ...
Court decisions recognizing the CAN-SPAM Act, which is now almost two years old, have been few and far between. However, recent actions have made up for lost time, say proponents of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Fifth Circuit Court's summary judgment that the University of T...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who filed a class action lawsuit over the music giant's digital rights management (DRM) software on CDs, according to documents filed in New York federal court on Wednesday. The settlement will likely be considered in a h...
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed three major music labels as yet another controversy in the digital-music industry unfolds. The subpoenas are in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital-music downloads. Werner Music Group on Friday confirme...
A Christian evangelical group is suing Google for allegedly infringing on its trademark. Jews for Jesus, which publishes several evangelistic Web sites in its mission to reach Jews, is claiming that a Web log hosted through the search giant's Blogspot service is harming its reputation. Google's Blo...
France's parliamentary lower house has approved a law that would make the downloading of unlicensed music and movies from peer-to-peer (P2P) services legal with a monthly royalty fee of about US$8 per user. While the law is far from final, it evoked sharp criticism from the French music and film ind...
The U.S. Congress is plotting out the transition from today's over-the-air analog broadcast television to digital television -- setting a 2009 date and the basic structure for assisting consumers who do not have satellite or cable TV service. While these are necessary first steps, there are still a ...
A federal appeals court has invalidated patents for bar codes and machine vision in a case that could have significant implications for the technology industry, experts told TechNewsWorld. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the appeals court for patent cases, based in Washington, D...
Experts are raising uncomfortable questions about Research in Motion's proposal to maintain the viability of its Blackberry wireless network through a technological "work-around" if the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va. issues an order to shutter its services in the U.S. The work-around -- as cur...
One visit to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Web site offers an eye-opening glimpse into the world of cybercrime. Case after case details how the Feds are cracking down on cyber-criminals, defendants are pleading guilty, and the judged are bei...
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