The Lower Merion School School District Webcam-spying case has presented suggestions that intimate photos have been taken of students during non school hours remotely via school laptops. Two school district employees have been placed on administrative leave from their posts following the suggestions. When the accusations first came out, the school district admitted that 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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On Monday, new Canadian anti-spam and anti-spyware legislation (Electronic Commerce Protection Act) will be put to vote. The Copyright lobbies for the software and music industries have been very busy trying to make significant alterations to the bill. One area of concern for the copyright lobbies is a limitation to install DRM software on user [...]

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