Ernesto writes: The verdict against three people associated with The Pirate Bay just been announced. The Swedish Appeal Court found Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström guilty of “contributory copyright infringement” and handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 10 months plus damages of more than $6.5 million in total. Read more on…
Category: Online
Opting Out Isn’t Socially Neutral Anymore
Scott Peppet writes: Various news outlets are reporting that Google “fans” in Germany have been egging the roughly 3% of houses whose inhabitants have chosen to opt out of Google’s Street View mapping feature. Why? […] What’s next? If you won’t stream real-time data about your health (do you have the flu? other communicable diseases?) into…
NSTIC: Not-So Trusted Identity in Cyberspace
The following is a guest commentary by Sheila Dean. Dean is the blog editor for BeatTheChip.org and a non-profit consultant on a variety of civil liberties, human rights and digital privacy campaigns. The views expressed below are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of PogoWasRight.org. You may contact Sheila at contact[at]beatthechip.org or…
Whoa, Google, That’s A Pretty Big Security Hole
Michael Arrington writes: Facebook would probably just consider this a feature, but the rest of us will definitely consider this a big security hole. The creator of http://guntada.blogspot.com (don’t visit that site just yet) emailed us this morning to explain. If you’re already logged in to any Google account (Gmail, etc.), and visit that site, he’s…