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Man Gets Served On Facebook, Literally
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:52:08 CET
Holy hell, how embarrassing would this be? But, in a pretrial for a commercial dispute, these old-fashioned methods proved fruitless. The prosecuting team then decided to check online, and noticed recent updates on defendant Fabio De Biase's profile. Satisfied it was currently active, they sought permission to send documents via the website, with Justice Nigel Teare duly obliging. Comments... Read more
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Web privacy standards: easy to break, hard to enforce
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:52:07 CET
Over the past week, Google has been called out for bypassing default privacy settings in both Safari and Internet Explorer in order to serve up advertising cookies. The two cases were quite different. With Safari, Google acknowledged the problem and said it was an accident. With Internet Explorer, Google said it was using the best available workaround for an outdated browser privacy technology tha... Read more
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Spamming apps: Facebook is to blame, not Silicon Valley
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:52:06 CET
Facebook Connect lets you choose whether to install an app or not, but it doesn't let you control what it can access or what it can do with your Facebook account. It needs a complete overhaul.... Read more
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La La La La La: The Internet Routes Around Copyright Censorship To Restore Daria
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:26:20 CET
One of the things I've never liked about copyright is its potential to be the functional equivalent of censorship. Sometimes this censorship comes about because an author didn't get permission to create his work in the first place (see: Richard Prince, JD California). While this unfortunately turns judges into cultural gatekeepers, it's been deemed a necessary balance between copyright law and the... Read more