A ruling in favor of Google after 8 years of litigation about Google Books since it “has become such an important tool for researchers and librarians that it has been integrated into the educational system — it is taught as part of the information literacy curriculum to students at all…

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Pew reported that 68% of Internet users believe that “current laws are not good enough in protecting people’s privacy online” and as result 86% of Internet users “have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints.”  In September 2013 Pew Research published its Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online…

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A French court ruled that that it is “illegal to take and distribute images of an individual in a private space without that person’s permission” which requires Google to “automatically filter its search engine” in France as reported by the New York Times.  The case against Google was…

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The NSA is arguing to the Supreme Court that the collection of telephone records may not be challenged because the Patriot Act precludes challenges in the name of national security.  On October 28, 2013 EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) filed a brief at the Supreme Court asking the Supreme Court…

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Apparently the NSA & UK “tapped the fiber-optic cables connecting Google’s and Yahoo’s overseas servers and are copying vast amounts of email and other information” as reported by the New York Times. The report went on to say that “the British agency known as Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ”…

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Based on a world-wide study analyzing traffic from Social Media sites all businesses must be proactive on LinkedIn since 64% of all traffic comes from LinkedIn. The same study revealed that 66% of the corporate website traffic came from the iPhone (29%) and the iPad (37%), with the Google Droid…

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To avoid a likely disclosure of software a Judge issued an order to allow the seize of a hacker’s computer based on evidence that in the defendants’ “own words” that they ” are hackers” as reported by Computerworld. Recently US District Judge Lynn Winmill in Idaho issued an unusual order…

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There are allegations that the National Security Agency (NSA) “spied on French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent and gathered data on millions of phone calls” according to French foreign minister Laurent Fabius as reported by Computerworld. On October 21, 2013 French newspaper Le Monde reported that the NSA used DNR (Dial Number…

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