Thomas O’Toole writes: Morrison & Foerster’s Socially Aware blog has an interesting post about a California man who filed a putative class action lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team for failing to honor the team’s alleged promise to send him no more than three text messages each week. After receiving five messages the first week and…
Category: Business
Legal action to stop sale of spy technology to brutal regime
Jack Serle reports: Human rights group Privacy International is preparing to take legal action against the British government for failing to control exports of sophisticated spy technology to brutal regimes. Legislation allows the British government to restrict or stop exports if they are capable of aiding repression or breaches of human rights. But the NGO…
Firefox 14 encrypts Google search, but admen can still strip-search you
Gavin Clarke reports: Updated Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 14, which automatically encrypts web searches through Google, but the new release leaves an important back door open to advertisers. The move also quietly undermines Mozilla’s crusade in the past years on maintaining the privacy of netizens by using Do-Not-Track as a plea to websites not to…
Skype refuses to confirm or deny eavesdropping rumours
Liat Clark reports: Video chat provider Skype has refused to deny that wiretaps can now be used to infiltrate its hosted conversations, according to a news report. After repeatedly putting the question to Skype representatives, a Slate reporter’s inquiries were met with the vague response: “[Skype] co-operates with law enforcement agencies as much as is legally and technically possible.” The…