The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday rejected [opinion, PDF] an appeal from an Internet domain owner seeking to recover $10 million in damages from an online marketer under the federal CAN-SPAN (sic) Act. James Gordon had recruited his friends and relatives to collect thousands of unsolicited emails as evidence that…
Category: Online
Defrocked pastor sues Christian dating site
A Church of Sweden minister has demanded compensation from a Christian dating site after he was stripped of his clerical collar for insulting a number of the site’s female users. The operators of the 7EHimlen (“Seventh Heaven”) site kept copies of the pastor’s online comments and passed them on to his superiors at the cathedral…
Complying with the EU Data Retention Directive
Back in April of this year the UK Home Office announced that all ISPs must retain their internet-related communication data for law enforcement authorities (LEAs) to gain access to the information that would help with a criminal investigation. The law, based on the European Union Data Retention Directive (EU DRD) requires ISPs to retain the…
Iraq plans internet porn, violence crackdown
The Iraqi government has decided to crack down on internet service providers and ban sites that incite violence or carry pornography, officials said , a move that has been strongly criticised by freedom of speech advocates as a dangerous first step toward political censorship. The plan to strengthen government control of content and usage will…