Thomas Mennecke reports: Every single US Copyright lawsuit against nearly 19,000 John Does has been filed in Washington DC. Discovery has been granted in every case, which means the identification process against many of these individuals is taking place as you read this article. Before the USCG can obtain the identifiable information associated with the…
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Token Attempt: The Misrepresentation of Website Privacy Policies through the Misuse of P3P Compact Policy Tokens
The abstract of a new research report by Pedro Giovanni Leon, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Aleecia M. McDonald, and Robert McGuire of Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) compact policies (CPs) are a collection of three-character and four-character tokens that summarize a website’s privacy policy pertaining to cookies. User agents, including Microsoft’s Internet…
ISPs to identify John Does in Debbie Does Dallas file-sharing case
There have been a number of file-sharing lawsuits filed recently. There are the two BitTorrent lawsuits filed by the US Copyright Group over Hurt Locker and Lucas Entertainment over Kings of New York, and more recently, a lawsuit by Titan Media against 19 John Does who allegedly used eDonkey2000 to share a variety of titles…
Judge declares U.S. military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy openly banning gay service members unconstitutional (update)
Phil Willon reports: A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, saying the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates the 1st Amendment rights of lesbians and gay men. U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips said the policy banning gays did not preserve military readiness, contrary…