Told Apple Needs 14 Days to Change 'Untrue' Samsung Correction Notice, UK Judge Expresses Disbelief. International Law Posted Nov 1, 2012 4:53 PM CDT By Martha Neil Ordered by the United Kingdom's High Court of Justice last month to put a post on its website explaining that a competitor didn't copy its iPad design, Apple Inc. tried to comply but published a notice that was "untrue" and "incorrect," according to British judges. Then, when Apple was ordered by the U.K. Court of Appeal in London to take down the offending notice and replace it within 24 hours with one that informed readers about its inaccurate comments, a lawyer for the computing Goliath said it needed 14 days to get the new notice in place, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times' Tech Now blog report. That led to a critique by a British judge in court Thursday: “I would like to see the head of Apple make an affidavit setting out the technical difficulties which means Apple can’t put this on ... their website," said Judge Robin Jacob, adding: “I just can’t believe the instructions you’ve been given.
Earlier coverage: Hard drive recovery tips for disaster-damaged storage. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it's no surprise that some people are scrambling to recover data from damaged hard drives. Chris Bross, Senior Enterprise Recovery Engineer at DriveSavers, said his company has been busy with an uptick in business, working to reclaim the data on everything from home users' single-disk drives to business-level servers. Some of the hard drives have been damaged by water, he said, but even more have been fried by power surges related to the storm.
The good news, he said, is that the majority of damaged hard drives can be recovered—albeit for a hefty price. DriveSavers charges an average of $1,000 to $1,500 to save the data from a single, consumer-grade drive, though the company is offering $500 off for severe weather victims. DTI Data, another drive recovery service, also charges $1,000 for consumer drives if the company has to physically open it, said John Best, DTI's director of information technology. Whatever you do, don't dry it. Why Offline Privacy Values Must Live On In The Digital Age. Whenever pirates demand the right to send anything to anybody without being tracked, we are somehow accused of wanting things for free. That's not true. What we demand is simpler: we demand the laws to apply equally online and offline; we demand our children inherit the civil liberties that our parents fought, bled and often died to give to us. It's an entirely reasonable demand. Let’s look at the classic letter to illustrate this.
The physical letter, consisting of an envelope, a folded paper with writing on it inside the envelope, and a stamp. This was what personal communication looked like in our parents’ offline world, and it was enshrined with certain civil liberties. First, the letter was anonymous. Second, the letter was secret in transit. Third, the letter was untracked. Fourth, the mailman was never responsible for the contents in the sealed letter.
This is a set of civil liberties that our parents and grandparents literally fought, bled, and sometimes even died to give us. 7 Landmark Tech Laws Passed in 2012. Facebook Lobbying Brussels In Earnest On EU Data Privacy Proposals. Facebook is lobbying hard to influence European Commission policy makers on recent proposals to shake up data privacy laws across member states, TechWeekEurope understands. Earlier this year, the EC outlined its plans for new data protection rules, laying out a regulation and a directive. They both contained controversial proposals, including the ability for regulators to fine a company two percent of annual turnover for serious failings and an obligation to confess to data breaches within 24 hours of them happening.
A source close to the matter said today the company was putting plenty of effort into lobbying in Brussels to get officials to rethink the laws. The social networking giant is particularly concerned about the provision for the “right to be forgotten”, according to Simon Milner, director of public policy for Facebook in the UK and Ireland. “The right to delete your online data is an important one, the right to erasure is a key principle,” Milner said. Law Firms Eating More Costs | Bloomberg Law.
It’s getting much tougher for law firms to get paid back by clients for their legal research costs, a new Bloomberg Law survey of almost 100 firms has found. 43 percent of firms say they have to absorb more of their costs today than they did in 2010. A number of participants noted that an increasing number of clients do not want to pay for online See more + A number of participants noted that an increasing number of clients do not want to pay for online research, a trend they claim started with insurance companies. Firms are significantly more likely to recover legal research costs on litigation matters than other areas of law.
Participants feel this is because clients expect litigation to require legal research. Some participants noted that clients believe research services should be part of the overhead of running a law library, and not an additional cost that is passed on to them. For more details of the survey results, visit BloombergLaw.com. See less - Your Data Is Safe With Nicola Roxon. L'urbanité. Habiter le Capital ou la technonature. Ce texte reprend une conférence donnée dans le cadre du Colloque national Pour une poétique du numérique 2, CNRS, Université de Nantes, UFR SIC, 2010. Résumé : Produit contradictoire, Internet est consubstantiellement l'extension et l'intensification de la société urbaine dans notre vie et le sens de la ville, le sens de notre vie urbaine, entre habitation du technocapital et politesse du monde ; les réseaux urbains se comprennent à l'aune des réseaux numériques comme on comprend mieux la présence du singe en comprenant mieux celle de l'homme.
Photo © Lionel Bouffier "Urbanité 41" Ce titre un brin sophistiqué propose, sinon une actualisation épistémologique (Ulmann, 2004), un (ixième) retour à et un rapprochement entre Karl Marx et à Martin Heidegger (Axelos, 1961 ; Kittsteiner, 2007). Autrement dit, au milieu de la nuit du monde, pour l'être occidental (plutôt), qu'y a-t-il sinon la ville, centre de tous les centres à vivre et à traverser ? Voici ma thèse : Vers quoi ?... Amazon cloud entry poses legal concerns to business. US company Amazon is to open as an Australia-based cloud provider. Photo: Bloomberg James Hutchinson E-commerce giant Amazon’s plans to offer data and computer hosting services through Australian data centres from this week will not indemnify customers from legal action in the United States, legal experts have warned. Amazon’s hosting division will today announce plans to offer public cloud services – computers and hard drives that companies can lease for a fraction of the cost of purchasing a similarly capable machine – for the first time within Australian borders.
The move has been touted as a “game changer” for high-risk sectors like finance and government, which are traditionally kept from storing critical data outside of Australia. The introduction of Amazon-hosted services in Australia is thought to have been spurred by those concerns, providing local companies with the ability to store data in local facilities rather than data centres in the US, Singapore or Europe. UK's planned copyright landgrab will spark US litigation 'firestorm' High performance access to file storage Exclusive The UK faces a "firestorm" of international litigation if the government's copyright land-grab goes ahead, American artists and photographers have warned. In a letter to business minister Vince Cable seen by The Register, six groups representing US photographers and graphic artists say proposals in the Business and Enterprise Reform Bill, currently going through Parliament, breach international law and will have costly consequences for UK plc.
The measures encourage gathering creative works into "extended collective licensing" systems, which grant others the rights to use the stockpiled material. Crucially, this could happen without the original creators' consent nor any royalty paid to them, unless they manage to opt out of the scheme. The UK measures are being rushed through before Europe-wide orphan works proposals are incorporated into UK law. This is no idle threat. Bootnote. The Fight Over First Sale « Copyright and Technology. Posted by Bill Rosenblatt in Law, Libraries, Publishing. Trackback I’ve been writing regularly about the battle that libraries are fighting over e-book lending — a battle whose outcome doesn’t look good for libraries right now. Libraries can only lend e-books at the pleasure of publishers and not through any legal right. I have said that libraries’ best shot at changing their fortunes as the reading world transitions to digital is to try to get e-lending rights enshrined in the law.
I also didn’t believe — with all due respect to the American Library Association and other library advocacy groups — that the library community stood much of a chance of getting Congress to pay attention to this issue. I had thought that if there were any path to change it would be through the long, hard slog of litigation.
That is, until I read about the Owners’ Rights Initiative, a lobbying group that began life last month. Libraries have found some interesting allies in the ORI. Like this: Like Loading... Vos données personnelles valent 315 milliards d’euros. Confidentiality: High Court rules content in emails should not be considered as property unless it is confidential information, copyrightable or owned under contract. Business cannot be said to have an "enforceable proprietary claim" to the contents of emails held by staff unless the content can be considered to be confidential information belonging to a business; unless copyright subsists in the content that belongs to a business, or unless that business has a contractual right of ownership over the content, Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart ruled.
"I can find no practical basis for holding that there should be property in the content of an email, even if I thought that it was otherwise open to me to do so," the judge said in a recent ruling. "To the extent that people require protection against the misuse of information contained in emails, in my judgment satisfactory protection is provided under English law either by the equitable jurisdiction to which I have referred in relation to confidential information (or by contract, where there is one) or, where applicable, the law of copyright. Discussion sur la fiscalité numérique avec Philippe Marini. Mise à jour : la vidéo est en ligne : Ce lundi soir, Numerama participera sur à une discussion avec le sénateur Philippe Marini sur la fiscalité du numérique, organisée pour la première fois via la plateforme Google Plus et ses vidéo-bulles.
Président de la commission des finances du Sénat, et auteur d'une proposition de loi surnommée taxe Google ainsi que d'un rapport parlementaire, Philippe Marini répondra également aux questions d'Antoine Bayet (Le Lab d’Europe 1), Richard Menneveux (Frenchweb), et Erwann Gaucher (CMC). Le programme de la discussion, également ouverte aux internautes, abordera non seulement la fiscalité du numérique au sens strict (les impôts et autres taxes imposées aux acteurs du numérique en France et dans le monde), mais aussi des questions parallèles comme la fameuse Lex Google qui pourrait aboutir à la création d'une taxe visant à rémunérer la presse en ligne.
Toutes les informations et le programme détaillé sur le site du Sénat. Draconian Downloading Law In Japan Goes Into Effect... Music Sales Drop. Google Says Governments Requesting More Content Removals. Google Inc. (GOOG:US) said government requests to remove content from its search results and other services rose 71 percent in the first half of the year, according to a new report.
The owner of the world’s largest search engine said there were 1,791 requests in the six months through June, up from 1,048 during the last six months of 2011, according to its Transparency Report. Turkey’s government made 501 requests to remove content, up from 45 in the previous period, while the U.S. followed with 273, up from 187. Google is under scrutiny from companies and governments around the world over what type of content it shows. Some countries are being more aggressive in seeking content removal from search results and sites such as video-sharing service YouTube. While the company may receive such requests, Google may choose not to comply, according to the report. Shares of Mountain View, California-based Google declined less than 1 percent to $662.39 as of 2:47 p.m. in New York. L'"Encyclopædia Universalis" entre dans l'ère du tout-numérique. L'Alliance pour la culture et pour le numérique guette les "géants du Net" Un nouveau cercle de réflexion sur la vie numérique a fait son apparition : l’Alliance pour la culture et pour le numérique.
Apparu au printemps dernier et désormais mis en marche, ce think tank constitue un véritable melting pot de l’IT. Il a vocation à fédérer des représentants du monde de la culture, de l’audiovisuel, des opérateurs télécoms et des fournisseurs de services en ligne. Pêle-mêle, on y trouve des membres comme Alain Augé (Directeur général du groupe Bayard), Jean-Michel Counillon (Secrétaire général du groupe TF1), Corinne Denis (Présidente du Groupement des éditeurs de services en ligne ou GESTE), Michael Trabbia (Directeur des affaires publiques du groupe France Télécom-Orange.
On recenserait en tout 16 membres au sein de l’Alliance pour la culture et pour le numérique. Dans le cadre de l’Acte 2 de « l’exception culturelle » (Mission Lescure), ils sont émis un ensemble de propositions visant à alimenter la Mission Lescure. How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign. Automated Trading Errors Give Rise to New Compliance Concerns. Les libertés numériques sont-elles des libertés comme les autres ? Voici la contribution que j'ai apportée au numéro spécial sur "Les Penseurs de la liberté" du Magazine littéraire qui paraîtra ce samedi. Je vous recommande d'acheter l'ensemble, coordonné par Frédéric Martel, et absolument passionnant.L'ampleur et l'importance du sujet, ainsi que l'exigence de concision m'ont contraint à produire un gros effort de synthèse et à rester généraliste. On ne parle pas ici de SOPA ou autre... Chaque paragraphe pourrait faire l'objet d'un blogpost à lui seul. Mais je ne doute pas que vos commentaires vont développer cette introduction.A vous lire, donc.
Une Révolution politique Internet est d’abord un projet politique. Tout comme l’informatique individuelle. Quarante ans plus tard, un tiers des Humains possèdent chacun l’équivalent des supercalculateurs d’alors, et échangent librement grâce à ce réseau ouvert et relativement décentralisé. Une plateforme d’innovations radicales Le numérique est marqué par cette origine libertaire. Government Surveillance Is on the Rise, Says Google. Google released its sixth Transparency Report on Tuesday, showing what it believes is a clear trend: around the world, government requests for user data is on the upswing. "As you can see from the graph below, government demands for user data have increased steadily since we first launched the Transparency Report," wrote Dorothy Chou, senior policy analyst at Google, in a blog post.
"In the first half of 2012, there were 20,938 inquiries from government entities around the world. Those requests were for information about 34,614 accounts. " Government requests for Google to remove content rose dramatically over the past six months, too. "In the first half of 2012, there were 1,791 requests from government officials around the world to remove 17,746 pieces of content," noted Chou. Google's latest Transparency Report covers January to June of 2012. "From time to time, we receive falsified court orders," says the Google FAQ. The Clock That Cost Apple $21 Million. Data thieves target debit cards, PINs at point of sale. Privacy & Security Matters | Mintz Levin : Data Compliance & Security, Employee Privacy Lawyer & Attorney. William McGurn: Sex, Lies and Gmail. Canada Modernizes Copyright Legislation | Bennett Jones LLP. Exemptions to Copyright Law Revised for Video Mash-Ups and Smartphone Jailbreaking and Unlocking : TMT Law Watch.
Knowledge Workers - Do you have the tools to do your job? Survey. Papa John's faces $250 million spam lawsuit (Olivia Smith/CNNMoney.com) Be careful what you share: How fraudsters use social media - and directory enquiries - to build an intimate picture of our lives. First Time Ever I Tagged Your Face… FTC Guidelines on Facial Recognition Technology. Data privacy: Not a priority for marketers? What Can Napster Teach Us About BYOD? Copyright Maximalism: Turning Satirical Works Into Ridiculous Reality. We're Missing Out on the Value of Security Awareness CIO. Facebook now gives all new users a privacy tutorial, thanks to Irish authorities. Project risk - how to assess and scale to fit.
Harry Surden suggests RFID and other tech advances necessitate new privacy rights. US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time. Prepare your business for digital disaster. Twitter 101 for Lawyers: 3 Key Ways to Make Your Tweets Stand Out - Social Media / Networking. McHenry County court joins social media. Security Researcher Shares Blow-by-Blow Account of Advanced Persistent Threat CIO. Remise en questions du dogme de la primauté actionnariale « Gouvernance | Jacques Grisé. How to Preserve Data When You Can't Trust Your Adversary. United, Delta Said to be Warned by California on Privacy. Surrey woman files lawsuit accusing Apple of privacy breach. Apple Plays Two Ways on Patent-Field Fight. Zappos Terms Of Service Ruled Invalid.
Big Data in Law: Cloud Challenge, Analytics Opportunity. Trusted computing and clouds. Rosetta Stone Agrees to Drop Google Trademark Suit. Rosetta Stone Agrees to Drop Google Trademark Suit (Don Jeffrey/Bloomberg) When does community action against an anonymous troll become a lynch mob? Fughettaboutit: Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seized in Megaupload Case | Threat Level. Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seized in Megaupload Case (David Kravets/Wired) Consultant Has 'Somewhat Robust' Watch List of Law Firms in Possible Danger. Microsoft Sued Over Use of Live Tiles in Windows CIO.com. DOJ: Hearing on Megaupload Stored Data Should Be Limited CIO.
FaceTime now on patent troll list. Expert Warns of the Growing Trade in Software Security Exploits. Pro Bono Task Force report: ‘If we don’t do it, who will?’ How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked (Forbes Cross-Post) Data Breach Claim Survives Based on Allegation of Misuse of Personal Information -- Burrows v. Purchasing Power. Alternative Trading System Agrees to Pay $800K for Failure to Protect Confidential Information. Google's data-collecting habits drawing more scrutiny - The Hill's Congress Blog. Homeland Security chief: Banks 'under attack' by hackers | Security & Privacy.
iPhone App Teaches Exotic Dancers Their Rights. Special Report: Starbucks's European tax bill disappears down $100 million hole. FTC: Sue Google For Anti-Trust Violations. IT Business.ca Mobile Article. Another Court Finds Online Statements With Links Are Not Defamatory – Seldon v. Compass Restaurant. 12 Most Useful Things to Know About Social Media and Defamation. [Video] Privacy Law Expert: Many Companies Waiting for a Hack. FTC Declares Rachel From Cardholder Services 'Enemy Number 1'; Files Complaints Against Five Scammy Robocollers. FTC Staff Said to Formally Recommend Google Lawsuit Over Patents - Liz Gannes. Cyber security for the non-technical. Internet technology law: Social media give rise to Internet and technology law. Canadian Centre for Court Technology Guidelines on Social Media in the Courtroom. California AG Begins Enforcing the State's Online Privacy Protection Act for Websites, Aps : Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report.
Police allowed to install cameras on private property without warrant. Régulation, neutralité du Net : le rapprochement CSA-Arcep en questions. La "liste noire" de l'Internet russe mise en place. Espionnage-sur-facebook-tel-est-pris-qui-croyait-prendre - philippe-buist.