Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 22, 2010
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Capital Records v. Thomas-Rasset has been a very closely followed lawsuit to say the least. It demonstrated one of the largest verdicts in a copyright infrignement case, and was the most high profile with respect to Peer to Peer file sharing against an individual.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 21, 2010
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (or EFF for short) is a very serious group, with a serious intent, and yet their humor is sometimes just so inviting. They have added four more groups to their takedown hall of shame (That would be DMCA Takedown)...highlighting gross abuses of DMCA takedown's that were issued clearly without any sense or comprehension of "Free Speech".
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Jan 20, 2010
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In 2008, a European Union panel of privacy regulators asked Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to eliminate all online query data after six months. This data, which is valuable for the companies running search-engines, includes a computer's unique identification number, location, and the search queries. The Article 29 Working Group held a hearing with representatives from the search engine companies in February 2009, and had established a deadline of the end of January 2010 for each company to respond.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 19, 2010
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In relation to the EU Article 29 Working Groups recommendations as to IP address retention from search engines, Microsoft announced that they would limit the time that they associate IP addresses with search terms to six months.
Posted by: Aaron Titus
on Jan 9, 2010
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Note: This post originally appeared on The Security Catalyst Blog
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 6, 2010
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The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is planning on investigating the privacy and security implications of cloud computing, behavioural advertsing, and several other privacy matters related distinctly with internet activity according to a recent
filing (statement starts roughly on Page 8 of the PDF) with the
Federal Communications Commission.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 6, 2010
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On January 5, 2010, the European Union's Article 29 Working Party published an opinion dated December 1, 2009 about Israli data protection laws.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 4, 2010
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As a "hired brain" for a lot of technology companies, and also one that works with a fair number of startups, we regularly run into issues dealing with visas and bringing foreign workers to the U.S. I am not going to go on a tirade of whether it is good to have a visa process for foreign workers or not, but, especially in startups, I think there are several compelling reasons to do startup visas (especially with forming companies in the U.S./job creation etc.). One thing that is for sure, of any startup I have worked with, the most important thing is the synergy between the founding team.
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Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 2, 2010
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Outsourcing isn't an issue of if anymore, but when. Specialization in development, production, and skill set make certain issues cheaper and easier to outsource and get an expert on task. However, outsourcing presents a lot of risks. Some of those risks include the following:
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Dec 22, 2009
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I4i, a small Toronto based software company sued Microsoft for patent infringement, won an injunction and $290 million USD, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld the ruling on December 22, 2009.
