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- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
A federal judge in New York
has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of
YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have
watched there.
- Will you have to waive your 5th amendment rights against
self incrimination in order to obtain credit card. You may have to if
Senator Dodd has his way.
Senator Dodd is trying to pull a fast one in HR 3221 by slipping in a
provision, totally unrelated to preventing foreclosures, that would
require that personal credit card purchases must be reported to the
Federal Government. "The bill specifically targets payment systems like
eBay's PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout that are used by many small
online businesses. The privacy implications for America's small
businesses are breathtaking."
- Effective June 9, 2008 - Important Information Regarding Changes to Your Verizon Online Terms Of Service
1. Reporting of Actual or Potential Violations of Child Pornography
Laws. We have added language to our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) making
clear that the Service cannot be used in any fashion for the
transmission or dissemination of images containing child pornography.
In addition, in Section 5, Privacy Policy; Legal Compliance, we have
added language making clear that (a) we are required by law to report
any facts or circumstances reported to us or which we discover from
which it appears there may be a violation of the child pornography
laws; and (b) that we reserve the right to report any such information,
including the identity of users, account information, images and other
facts to law enforcement personnel.
This is a classic case of gummint usurping privacy by citing a hot
button issue that nobody can argue with. Yet further language makes it
clear that they will have the right to randomly monitor (read)
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- As a Verizon Newsgroup
service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes
that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service.
On
June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only
offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed
below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be
available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other
newsgroups using our Newsgroup service.
comp.* humanities.* misc.* news.* rec.* sci.* soc.* talk.*
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Comcast
has done away with newsgroups altogether. I'm guessing that the
gummint placed such a strict burden of liability on providers to monitor for child
porn, or anything that suits them, that corporate legal advised them to cut bait. The
problem is that groups like alt.* contained many worthwhile groups, but because of some very questionable content (by my standards), just as you'll find on a Google search,
the whole shebang is shut down. Like the man said, gummint will
eventually take all our liberties and have us applauding while they do
it.
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