Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay remained closed on Tuesday morning after a Stockholm court decision forced a supplier to cut off server capacity. The Stockholm District Court ordered Black Internet to stop supplying the notorious file sharing site with capacity in a ruling issued shortly after lunch on Monday. Faced with a fine…
Social networks leak personal information
Online social networking sites leak personal information, a new study has found, raising the possibility that users of such sites can be tracked everywhere they go online. The study, “On the Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information Via Online Social Networks,” was co-authored by Balachander Krishnamurthy, a researcher at AT&T Labs and Craig E. Wills, a…
Goody family sues newspaper
The family of Jade Goody is suing Mirror Group Newspapers for up to £100,000 over the publication of a picture of her burial in the People. Seven people, including Goody’s mother and grandparents, claim the image, published on 5 April, was an invasion of privacy and a breach of confidence. The group are also suing…
Deutsche Bank spy probe needs more time
Frankfurt prosecutors said it would take until mid-September at the earliest to conclude a preliminary probe into a spying affair at Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE). “We still need a few weeks,” a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said on Monday, after previously saying the probe might be completed around the end of August. The probe by…