Rachel Metz of Associated Press reports that Amazon.com is offering free replacement books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels “1984” and “Animal Farm” were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. The deletion led to a class-action lawsuit started by one student who was using the book for…
People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension To Privacy And Technology Scholarship
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…