Ryan Calo at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society has a thought-provoking article, “People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension To Privacy And Technology Scholarship.” Here’s the abstract: This article updates the traditional discussion of privacy and technology, focused since the days of Warren and Brandeis on the capacity of technology…
Court orders Google to reveal critics’ names
As a follow-up on a story previously discussed, Ben Fox reports: A resort developer has obtained a court order requiring Google Inc. to help uncover the identities of anonymous contributors to an online newspaper that posted articles linking him to government corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Developer Cem Kinay of Miami accuses TCI…
In Canada, library net filter controversy heats up
Jonathan Sher reports: Just why Internet filters at London public libraries were scrapped became murkier yesterday after key supporters of their removal challenged explanations by the chair of the city’s library board. Board chair David Winninger, also a member of city council, had said the board was prompted to investigate the removal of the filters…
McDonald’s manager: “I am, very, like remorseful” for taking nude workmate’s pic
No, this is not the case out of Arkansas involving McDonald’s and a cell phone, but another case, this out in Australia. ANI reports: Amanda Jane Murison, 21, of Runcorn in Brisbane’s south, was at a fast-food conference at a Hamilton Island resort in August last year, and she was sharing a room with a…