The Battle for Net Freedom
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After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet search engines" and "all social media websites"—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to "de-index" the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
The recording industry considers filing a lawsuit against Google for allegedly abusing its dominant market position to distort the market for online music. Industry groups including IFPI and the RIAA want Google to degrade links to “pirate” websites in its search results.
Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results | TorrentFreak
A new WordPress plugin makes it dead easy to uncensor blocked websites.
WordPress Plugin Unblocks Censored Sites, Including The Pirate Bay | TorrentFreak
Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details... | Techdirt
from the copyright-as-censorship dept Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine's offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the company's printing presses, and told the world that the magazine was a criminal enterprise with a giant banner on their building. Then imagine that it never arrested anyone, never let a trial happen, and filed everything about the case under seal, not even letting the magazine's lawyers talk to the judge presiding over the case.
How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account | Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Few realise that foreign governments gain the right to our personal data when we sign up to social media.
This post is part of "CDT Fellows Focus," a series that presents the views of notable experts on tech policy issues. This week, Peter Swire , the C.
‘Going Dark’ Versus a ‘Golden Age for Surveillance’ | Center for Democracy & Technology
Officers in numerous states and cities get detailed information from cell-phone carriers without a warrant -- and legislators ought to stop them. Conor Friedersdorf With the phrase "Big Brother is watching," George Orwell captured the central role constant surveillance plays in dystopian visions.
Big Brother in Your Pocket: How Police Use Your Cell Phone to Track You - Conor Friedersdorf - Technology - The Atlantic
The Surveillance Catalog - The Wall Street Journal
As the Internet has grown to handle more data, monitoring companies have had to keep up. Interception now can mean taking all the traffic from the Internet backbone and funneling it through devices that inspect the packets of data, determine what is inside them, and make decisions about whether to copy them for law enforcement.Why the Jones Supreme Court Ruling on GPS Tracking Is Worse Than It Sounds - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
While the justices unanimously agreed police violated a suspect's Fourth Amendment rights, the Court split on whether the government can track you without a device. Last fall the Supreme Court heard a case concerning whether police in Washington DC were in violation of the Constitution when they tracked the car of a suspected drug dealer's wife using a GPS device they installed on the car.
U.S. v. Jones: Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
As technology makes surveillance easier and cheaper, courts are grappling with how to apply the Fourth Amendment in the digital age.
Jim Giles, consultant
One Per Cent: FBI releases plans to monitor social networks
Obama Pushes for New Internet-Privacy Law to Protect Consumers - The Daily Beast
Every few weeks, it seems, we’re hit with some new scandal when a tech company gets caught invading the privacy of its users.A Clunky Cyberstrategy
Essay Right now, more than 100 foreign intelligence organizations are trying to hack into the digital networks that undergird U.S. military operations. The Pentagon recognizes the catastrophic threat posed by cyberwarfare, and is partnering with allied governments and private companies to prepare itself.A Privacy Manifesto in Code: What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
A new tool under development by Oregon State computer scientists could radically alter the way that communications work on the web.Does CISPA Have Sufficient Safeguards?
Snapshot As the White House sanctions Iran and Syria for using technology to target their citizens, other parts of the U.S. government are driving the development of policies, regulatory norms, and business practices that embolden authoritarian governments to electronically police their populations. Mike RogersPiracy Debate
Thank you! I keep forgetting about the 100 Pearl rule until I can't add any more pearls! Thanks for the suggestions. by fionnbharr Feb 13
This pearltree is amazing ! But be careful because there's a limit of 100 pearls by pearltree, so you'll reach it soon ;) You should use a few sub-pearltrees to put the pearls within. For exemple you could create one for the SOPA pearls, one for the piracy Pearls etc... :) by amsika Feb 13