President Obama continues morphing into President Bush. If you need informal proof, just watch Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and you’ll see that she is becoming more openly critical of a president for whom she repeatedly made excuses earlier in his administration. Or be a fly on the wall at my next family get-together to hear…
DoD cancels EchoMetrix contract after EPIC complaint (updated)
Back in September, PogoWasRight.org reported that EPIC.org had filed a complaint with the FTC about EchoMetrix, a developer of software for monitoring of online activity. As reported at the time, EPIC alleged that EchoMetrix analyzes the information collected from children and sells the data to third parties for marketing or intelligence purposes while claiming it…
Telia forced to reveal file-sharing customer
Swedish Internet provider TeliaSonera has been forced to disclose the identity of a customer believed to be behind file-sharing site Swetorrents, after losing a court case to a consortium of film companies in the District Court. If TeliaSonera refuses to reveal the name and address of the IP address holder, the company will face a…
File sharing in Sweden nears record high
Did Swedish anti-piracy law backfire or did it just do no good in the long-term, or what? Following a severe drop in the aftermath of Ipred, Sweden’s new anti-piracy law implemented in April, illegal file sharing is once again on the rise, reaching record high levels. Many experts believed that the Ipred law wouldn’t have…