Slashdot: Your Rights OnlineNews for nerds, stuff that mattersSenate Scrutinizes Privacy Issues of ISP User Tracking- July 8, 2008 Hugh Pickens writes "As companies collect, use, and disseminate data regarding online users, there is concern that tracking individuals' Internet activity and gathering information from online users violates their expectations of privacy. The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to look at the policy issues, and the hottest topic will be proposed systems by which ISPs can watch users and sell information about their surfing habits to advertising companies. The Center for...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/330225197/article.pl Online "Public" Spaces Don't Guarantee Rights- July 8, 2008 mikesd81 recommends an AP piece covering a lot of examples of the ways free speech and other rights don't exist on the private Web. One case featured was that of Dutch photographer Maarten Dors, who had this picture deleted by flickr. Without prior notice, Yahoo deleted the photo on grounds it violated an unwritten ban on depicting children smoking. While Dors eventually got the photo restored, after the second time it was deleted, the case highlights the consequence of having online commons...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/330189087/article.pl Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions- July 8, 2008 Corrupt notes an Ars analysis of the FISA bill of which the telecom immunity provision has been getting all the attention. Timothy B. Lee enumerates the ways in which the bill loosens current protections on domestic wiretapping and opens up whole new areas to government eavesdropping. "The legislation eliminates meaningful judicial oversight of eavesdropping between American citizens and foreigners located overseas, and effectively legalizes dragnet surveillance of domestic-to-foreign traffic...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/330007630/article.pl Your Mashup Is Probably Legal- July 8, 2008 TV Barn writes "We've been conditioned to think that if you pull something off the web and use it, you're committing some sort of copyright infringement. But increasingly, the law is moving in the opposite direction. Provided you are making a truly new use of the content, you are free to make money off those copyrighted images and video and sound. On Monday the Center for Social Media released 'Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video,' which reflects the latest changes in copyright..http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/329816010/article.pl Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment- July 8, 2008 I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With the telecoms all but assured of amnesty for their participation in illegal spying, there's now one last amendment in their way — the Bingaman amendment. Because President Bush is unwilling to sign FISA reform without immunity, and because Blue Dog Democrats fear for their reelection unless FISA reform as a whole passes, most compromise positions are already off the table. So the new amendment seeks to sidestep part of the problem by...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/329783497/article.pl |