An IBM researcher has solved a tricky mathematical problem that makes it possible to analyse encrypted data without compromising privacy. Craig Gentry used a mathematical object called an ideal lattice to develop a system called fully homomorphic encryption (apparently you might also know it as ‘privacy homomorphism’). […] With the breakthrough, companies storing confidential, electronic…
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Kaspersky gets “good samaritan” immunity
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals filed its opinion in Zango v. Kaspersky yesterday. Zango had sued Kaspersky Labs because Kaspersky’s software blocks Zango’s software. Kaspersky claimed that it was immune to lawsuit under the safe harbor provision of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 § 230. The district court had granted summary judgment in…
No retrial in Pirate Bay case
Sweden’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the judge in the high profile Pirate Bay case was not biased, as has been claimed by lawyers representing the men behind the popular file sharing site. The appeals court judgment means that the case will not be reheard at Stockholm District Court. “We have reached the…
Publishers win anti-piracy law test case
In the first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law in April, an ISP has been told by a Swedish court it must hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations. If the company, broadband service provider Ephone, fails to comply with the order from the Solna…