Philip Willan reports on the trial of four Google executives in Milan. The case stems from a video depicting harassment of a disabled youth that was uploaded to Google Video and that was not pulled until two months after it was uploaded. Google claims it removed the video as soon as it was made aware…
Can copyrighting your name keep it out of the news?
Josh Verges reports: A former lawmaker convicted of raping his foster daughters says news media are no longer allowed to use his name without his permission. Ted Klaudt sent notices to the Argus Leader and several other news outlets claiming he has copyrighted his own name. Reporters were told to ask his permission 20 days…
Keeping Uncle Sam from spying on citizens
Elinor Mills reports: During the first Gulf War, Greg Nojeim went to Washington National Airport to observe Arab Americans being pulled out of lines and put through security checks that weren’t required of other passengers. The evidence he gathered was used by his employer, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to sue Pan Am World Airways on…
AU: Spam mastermind faces court
Amelia Bentley reports: A Sunshine Coast man accused of being the mastermind of the world’s largest online spam operation, which could send 10 billion emails a day, faced court in Brisbane today. Lance Thomas Atkinson, 26, has admitted to being behind a large-scale spam-sending operation that sent emails to internet users all over the world….