The Federal Bureau of Investigation Office of General Counsel (GLU) sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation (the parent company of Wikipedia) ordering them to remove the FBI shield from it’s pages (“Unathorized posting of the FBI Seal”) and threatening litigation. The image in question is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-FBI- ShadedSeal.svg. The letter states that “the site itself notes, [...]

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A United States piracy list pointed to China, Russia, and Canada as the top three worst governments for enforcing copyright policy in the world (in respective order). China’s Foreign Ministry stated that these claims were “groundless” and says that China is doing a lot to combat piracy in copyrighted films, music, video games and other [...]

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The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]

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More objections to Google’s street view are forming in the European Union. The Swiss Government is suing Google because its Street View online service is too revealing they claim. The Swiss data protection authority filed a claim with the Federal Administrative Court over the way Google handles personal information–specifically for additional constraints to obscure the [...]

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Lawmakers in Venezuela are planning on creating a ban on the sale of violent video games. This effort is an attempt to fight the pervasive violent crime in the region–where dozens of people are murdered every week in the capital Caracas. Allegedly 100,000 people have been murdered since Hugo Chavez took office in February 1999.

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