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Is there Reasonable Expectation of Privacy or Confidentiality on Employer-Furnished Laptops?

Posted on January 08, 2008
An employee has no expectation in workplace computer files where company guidelines and policy explicitly inform the employee that no expectation of privacy exists." This is a well settled principle of law held in Muick v. Glenayre Elecs, 280 F...

Are my informal e-mails legaly binding contracts?

Posted on January 08, 2008
My question is in regards to personal emails, about my business, breeding dogs, and "promises" thought to be made to another party. I have a friend who has purchased a dog from me earlier this year. Through email conversation, he asked me if I would "give" him a dog from an up comming breeding I had planned...

Cyber Fraud and Online Bullying Affect 44% of Small Irish Businesses

Posted on January 08, 2008
An Irish study reveals that cyber crimes such as bullying and fraud are a significant problem for island commerce and take away vitality and profits from the smaller business sector with a presence on the web. Assistant Director of the Small Firms Association, Avine McNally said, "Firms are increasing their use of information technology (IT) and the internet on a daily basis, and while this brings enormous benefits to the business, firms must realise that they are vulnerable when online...

Saudis Censor Blogger, Highlighting Lack of Online Rights

Posted on January 08, 2008
Lack of Internet Rights of Free Speech and Political Expression in Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world have been highlighted again by the detention of a well-known blogger whom the Government deems a threat to their society. The royal Government Interior Ministry said Fouad al-Farhan, 32, was arrested December 10 "because he violated the regulations of the kingdom...

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FTC Staff Proposes Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles

Posted on January 06, 2008
To address important consumer privacy concerns associated with online behavioral advertising, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission today released a set of proposed principles to guide the development of self-regulation in this evolving area. Behavioral advertising is the tracking of a consumer?s activities online ? including the searches the consumer has conducted, the Web pages visited, and the content viewed ? in order to deliver advertising targeted to the individual consumer?s interests...

Benazir Bhutto Assassination Websites Used to Spread Computer Viruses

Posted on January 06, 2008
Many websites apparently meant to mourn Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's murder by assassin were really designed to help spread malware for fraud and other nefarious purposes. This proves again how quickly Internet criminals can move to capitalize on opportunities to find new victims...

Sears and K-Mart Purposely Exposing Web Customers to Spyware

Posted on January 06, 2008
A Harvard professor has published a claim that Net marketing software employed by Sears and corporate sibling K-Mart has been linked to privacy concerns, and worse, they are not divulging this information as they are obliged to do by law. Business School Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who wrote the report, says, "The software is not something you'd want on your computer or the computer of anyone you care about," said Edelman in an interview...

Federal Trade Commission Closes Google/DoubleClick Investigation

Posted on December 24, 2007
Proposed Acquisition "Unlikely to Substantially Lessen Competition" The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will not seek to block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Internet advertising server DoubleClick Inc. In a 4-1 vote to close its eight-month investigation of the transaction, the Commission wrote in its majority statement that "after carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google''''s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is unlikely to substantially lessen competition...

Entertainment Outlets ?Face the Music?

Posted on December 24, 2007
Supriyo Mukherjee, the Eastern Regional Head of Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), which is the licensing arm of the Indian Music Industry (IMI), has sought criminal action for copyright violations against ten business organizations. The music industry loses over Rs 50 lakh (US $ 127,000) of revenue every month through copyright infringement...

Trends in Identity Theft, From 2007 into 2008

Posted on December 24, 2007
While certain new developments have characterized Identity Theft in 2007, others are believed to be on the cusp for 2008. The analysts at the Identity Theft Resource Center made five predictions for 2007, all of which turned out correct. The IFRC bases its prognostications upon victim experiences and data from law enforcement focusing on how criminals steal and employ personal identifying information and financial details...

Continuing Data Loss Debacle Creates UK Government IT Circus

Posted on December 19, 2007
In a seeming unending series of lost data blunders creating the distinct impression of British Government technological incompetence, analysts are now debating methods to stop the private information hemorrhage. In late 2007, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs admitted to losing the private ID and financial details of 25 million individuals...

India Busting Barriers as New Satellite Connection Set for Remote Villages

Posted on December 18, 2007
Next June, India plans to send a satellite into orbit expressly to provide computer connections to remote villages, according to the Government Space Department. The Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, G. Madhavan Nair, said in a speech, "We are going to launch GSAT-4 which will have digital connectivity on board...

E-commerce Patents

Posted on December 18, 2007
E-commerce patents are the latest protection for innovative business methods delivered online. Many claim e-commerce models are not patentable because the subject matter they assert is not within the statutory definitions and because the United States Patent office, and most patent offices around the world, are not outfitted for this analysis...

Video-game Industry Watchdog Clamps Down on Illegal Game Activity in Singapore

Posted on December 16, 2007
In an effort to enforce its posture against piracy, the video game watchdog, Entertainment Software Association (ESA) in conjunction with the Singapore Police, carried out raids on local stores selling illegal video games. The shops were selling gadgets that allowed users to download and play pirated games on their Nintendo DS handheld consoles...

Tiffany Jewelers Court Case: Ebay a 'Rat's Nest' of Fakes

Posted on December 16, 2007
In an extraordinary broadside leveled at the integrity of the Internet's largest auction house, Tiffany Jewelers of New York City has claimed in a court case that consumer buyer safeguards in the business are appallingly absent. Tiffany's, the world's second largest luxury jeweler, has stated in its court brief about eBay, "Indeed, it was a proverbial 'rat's nest...

Prediction: Internet to Double in Next Decade to Two Billion Users

Posted on December 16, 2007
While most economists and online-business people will be delighted to hear that the Internet recently passed the one-billionth user mark, Governments, Web infrastructure gurus and other analysts are busy discussing and laying plans for how to properly accommodate the next billion coming online, which is predicted to happen within the next ten years...

Is Online Lottery Legal?

Posted on December 12, 2007
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