From CDT.org: CDT today released an update to the browser report it issued in October of 2008. The report includes updated information about privacy tools available in five Web Browsers ?€? Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Safari 4, and Opera 10. The report compares browser offerings in three key areas: privacy mode, cookie…
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FileSoup’s founder arrested
A British man has been arrested for his role in running one of the internet’s oldest file sharing websites. The man – who started the FileSoup website in 2003 – was taken into custody last week after a raid on his home in Taunton, Somerset, and subsequently released on bail without charge. FileSoup, which was…
Student who blogged about patients reinstated
A federal judge has ordered the University of Louisville to permit a nursing student who had been expelled for writing blog posts about her patients, gun rights, religion, and other issues to re-enroll. […] The university expelled Ms. Yoder in February, saying she had violated the nursing school’s honor code by identifying herself as a…
ISPs scorn government net snoop plan
The government’s plans to massively increase surveillance of the internet have come under fire again, this time from the ISPs it wants to deputise as its snoopers. LINX, a major internet peering cooperative, said in its submission to the Home Office’s consultation on the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) – which closed last week – that…