John Ribeiro reports: BlackBerry data services can continue in Saudi Arabia after Research in Motion agreed to monitoring of e-mail and instant messaging data services, an official of the country’s regulator, Communications and Information Technology Commission, (CITC) said on Tuesday. RIM has agreed to place some of its communication servers in the country, said the…
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Consumer Watchdog Asks FBI, DEA to Explain Use of Google Earth
The FBI and DEA are now making extensive use of Google Earth, according to federal spending records. Consumer Watchdog is filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the agencies today to determine how the Internet giant’s digital mapping technology is being used for domestic surveillance, including whether it is used for racial profiling or other…
Nighthawk Energy forces chatroom users into open over ‘defamatory’ posts
Nick Goodway reports: Nighthawk Energy today said it had unmasked online investment chatroom users who targeted it with “persistent defamatory and untrue postings”. The AIM-listed oil company went to court to force the websites advfn.com and iii.co.uk to reveal the identities of anonymous message posters. Following a ruling in the High Court, Nighthawk said: “Both…
The Great Privacy Debate on WSJ
Jim Harper writes: I have a piece on Internet privacy in the Wall Street Journal today. It’s one side of a “debate” on Internet privacy and tracking. I say be careful what you give up if you thwart online tracking—personalization, free content, and other goodies may go by the wayside. My “opponent” is Nicholas Carr,…