Privacy Digest - News that can impact your privacy.News that can impact your privacy.Spyware bill cloaks a mini-UCITA- June 23, 2008 Spyware bill cloaks a mini-UCITA - Via Ed Foster's Gripelog : The holy grail for the software industry's political muscle has long been what in UCITA was called "electronic self help" - the right of software publishers to remotely disable their software on the mere suspicion that it hasn't been paid for. UCITA was ultimately stopped, but last Wednesday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on a bill that nominally is supposed to fight spyware but seems intended to make remote disabling..http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/spyware+bill+cloaks+mini+ucita Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity- June 23, 2008 Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online: Khalid Baheyeldin writes in with a CBC interview with the CEO of Sandvine, Dave Caputo (bio here). Sandvine is the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that provides the technology that Comcast and other ISPs use to overrule Net neutrality by, for example, injecting RST packets to disrupt Bittorrent traffic. Caputo says, among other things, that Internet monitoring is a necessity. Some of the comments to the...http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/sandvine+ceo+says+internet+monitoring+necessity CDT Policy Post on Network Management- June 23, 2008 CDT Policy Post on Network Management - Via Center for Democracy and Technology: CDT issued a policy post today on the topic of network management. In addition to providing background on the status of the network management and Internet neutrality debate, the document recaps CDT's earlier comments to the FCC. Those comments suggested some high-level principles to guide network management efforts, while cautioning the FCC to avoid formal regulation of network management practices. CDT...http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/cdt+policy+post+network+management P2P traffic standards- June 23, 2008 P2P traffic standards - Via Susan Crawford blog: Someone pointed me today to an IETF workshop held last week at MIT (announcement here) about possible standard-setting activities focused on P2P issues. The workshop was prompted by the ComcastBitTorrent experience. This is a good development, in my view. Putting aside the policy implications of the Comcast situation (and the question whether the FCC has or should have jurisdiction to do anything about that situation), the key problem for the..http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/p2p+traffic+standards Understanding Privacy- June 23, 2008 Understanding Privacy : SYNOPSIS - &160; UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY Daniel J. Solove Harvard University Press (May 2008) Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information more and more available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible. read more »http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/understanding+privacy Microsoft to MSN Music Customers: Your Music is Still Good - Till 2011- June 23, 2008 Microsoft to MSN Music Customers: Your Music is Still Good &8211; Till 2011 - Via EFF.org Updates: Last April, Microsoft met with criticism when it announced that it would deactivate all music purchased from MSN Music. Customers rightly protested that the decision to pull the plug on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) servers that allow MSN Music customers to “reauthorize” music files would render their purchases useless At the time, EFF announced an open letter to Microsoft,...http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/microsoft+msn+music+customers+your+music+still+goo... Net Neutrality Debate Is Secretly All About Internet Television, Net Pioneers Say- June 23, 2008 Net Neutrality Debate Is Secretly All About Internet Television, Net Pioneers Say - Via Threat Level: NEW HAVEN, Connecticut -- The network neutrality issue is much more complicated than the debates in Washingtog suggest, according to two of the internet's most revered architects, David Reed and David Clark. Clark, a senior MIT computer scientist who spent eight years as the internet's chief protocol architect, argued that the focus on neutrality is misplaced, because the net hasn't ever been..http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/net+neutrality+debate+secretly+all+about+internet+... Too Much of that First Amendment Thing- June 23, 2008 Too Much of that First Amendment Thing - Via CDT - PolicyBeta: Isn&8217;t it about time for the U.S. wake up and fall in line with the rest of world when it comes to placing restrictions on certain kinds of speech Why, in a world so volatile and fraught with religious and ethnic tension, does the U.S. stand alone in providing a safe harbor for speech that oozes with hate, incitement and contempt In the global race to place restrictions hate speech the U.S. runs dead last, owing to its dogged...http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/too+much+first+amendment+thing Guilty Verdict in First Criminal Trial for Online Music Piracy- June 23, 2008 Guilty Verdict in First Criminal Trial for Online Music Piracy - Via Threat Level: A Brooklyn man was convicted of criminal copyright infringement Thursday for his role as part of the "Apocalypse Production Crew" -- a piracy group that specialized in releasing yet-to-be-published music, movies, software and video games to downloaders. Barry Gitarts, 25, is the first accused internet music pirate to take his case to a criminal jury, according to the RIAA. He was convicted by an...http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/guilty+verdict+first+criminal+trial+online+music+p... DMCA "Repeat Infringers": Scientology Critic's Account Reinstated after Counter-Notification- June 23, 2008 DMCA &8220;Repeat Infringers&8221;: Scientology Critic&8217;s Account Reinstated after Counter-Notification - Via Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags: The Scientology critic known as “Wise Beard Man” returned to YouTube this week after successfully filing counter-notifications to copyright claims that had earlier been made against his account. The takedown and delayed return illuminate another of the lesser-known shoals of the DMCA safe harbor, the 512(i)(1)(A) “repeat infringers”.http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/23/dmca+repeat+infringers+scientology+critics+account... |