donalee Moulton discusses online reputation: … The study, Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency, also discovered that fully 60 per cent of Internet users surveyed said they are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, the majority of online adults (61 per cent) do not…
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RIM may win more time to meet India rules on BlackBerry
John Ribeiro reports: Research In Motion (RIM) will likely gain more time to run its BlackBerry service in India as it negotiates with the government on giving access to data on its networks to law enforcement agencies. An official in the country’s home ministry said Tuesday on condition of anonymity that an extension from the…
NL: BREIN and Usenet Portal Face Off In Court Over Legality
In another anti-piracy case in foreign news this week, anti-piracy group BREIN tried to convice a Dutch court that a usenet group (FTD) that publishes the locations of where copyrighted materials can be (illegally) downloaded is equivalent to publishing the material itself. Torrent Freak reports: … Lawyer Gijsbert Brunt began by outlining how FTD operates. He…
IE: Record labels lose file sharing case against UPC (updated)
Ciara O’Brien reports that although the High Court was sympathetic to record labels who are losing money due to illegal file-sharing and downloading, it held that Irish law does not permit enforcement of any “three strikes” rule that would require ISPs to cut off users upon notification by the label companies. Warner Music, Universal Music,…