Everyone’s writing about Google’s cessation of censoring search results in China. Here’s a sampling: Thomas Claburn reports: Ending months of speculation, Google on Monday stopped censoring search results in China. The company has done so by redirecting searchers who arrive at Google.cn, its search site in China, to Google.com.hk, which relies on servers based in…
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Privacy International to set up $1m Asian privacy network
Ian Grant reports: The Canadian International Development Research Centre has awarded a $1m contract to UK-based civil rights campaign group Privacy International to set up an Asian privacy network. Announcing the deal at Privacy International’s 20th anniversary celebration in London, executive director Simon Davies said the network would include Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines…
Anonymous sender of beer pong email gets to remain unknown
Evan Brown reports on a case in New Jersey where the standards for unmasking an anonymous party articulated in Dendrite v. Doe were applied to a case involving a teenage girl who tried to unmask an anonymous party who sent pictures of her playing beer pong to her school administrators. In A.Z. v. Doe, the…
EFF Appeals Dismissal of Warrantless Wiretapping Case
Cindy Cohn of EFF reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is not going quietly into the night when it comes to warrantless surveillance: EFF today filed its appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of the dismissal of Jewel v. NSA, the case EFF brought against the U.S. government and government officials on behalf…