Barbara Leonard reports: A movie distributor can subpoena Internet service providers to identify 2,177 people who allegedly pirated the company’s film “Cornered!,” a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled. “Courts have broad discretion in discovery matters and, pursuant to that discretion, may allow parties to conduct expedited discovery where ‘good cause’ is shown,” U.S. District…
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Class Action Suit Targets Google, Seeks Elmination Of Search Query Sharing
Greg Sterling writes: On the heels the filing of a formal privacy complaint by former FTC employee Chris Soghoian targeting Google’s policy of disclosing search queries in referrer strings, a new class action lawsuit takes aim at the same thing. It seeks money damages and an injunction against Google’s sharing of search queries with third parties. Filed in…
Schmidt: Don’t Like Google Street View Photographing Your House? Then Move.
Google really needs to assign someone to keep Eric Schmidt away from any microphone or recording device. John Paczkowski describes some of Schmidt’s more controversial statements and then continues: Appearing on CNN’s “Parker Spitzer” program last week, he said that people who don’t like Google’s Street View cars taking pictures of their homes and businesses “can…
Firesheep: Firefox extension exposes Facebook and Twitter passwords
Matt Warman reports: A new extension for the Firefox web browser makes it easier than ever before for users to steal account information from users logging on to unencrypted websites via unsecured wifi networks. Developed by Eric Butler, the Firesheep extension collects the “cookies” that a selection of websites such as Facebook and Twitter use…