http://www.goldsteinreport.com/ RSS feed for the Legal, Privacy & Security category. en-au Sat, 18 May 2013 23:23:29 +1000 Copyright: Goldstein Report 2005-2006 http://www.goldsteinreport.com/page?id=rss 120 http://www.goldsteinreport.com/images/site/rsslogo2.jpg http://www.goldsteinreport.com/ http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20306 Corporations and governments are turning the internet into a colossal, always-on surveillance tool. Once passive objects are able to report what's happening, where is the power balance? http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20306 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:50:54 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20303 A group of Congress members has sent a letter to Google seeking answers to a range of questions about the privacy implications raised by its Google Glass project. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20303 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:03 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20300 Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20300 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:15:25 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20299 A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied class-action status to copyright owners suing Google Inc over the use of material posted on YouTube without their permission. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20299 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:47 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20298 Cybercrime has developed in the last few years into a major concern, not just for the consumers and businesses that are victims, but also for governments around the world. Obama administration officials have called it one of the larger threats to the United States economy. While law enforcement agencies handle the investigative and prosecutorial piece of things, they are increasingly being aided by experts at companies such as Microsoft, Google and others that have unique insights into attackers' activities and the capability to make life more difficult for them. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20298 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:12:40 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20290 Four "modern day pirates" launched cyber-attacks on the CIA and global corporations stealing huge amounts of sensitive data and causing websites to crash across the world for their own amusement, a court heard today. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20290 Thu, 16 May 2013 19:10:39 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20285 Students at Humboldt State University in California individually reviewed 150,000 geocoded tweets containing racist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive terms to build a "hate map" indicating where people in the U.S. are most bigoted. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20285 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:37:46 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20283 A recent change in the way Google presents its privacy policy violates the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) and the policy is "fundamentally deceptive," Consumer Watchdog told Attorney General Kamala Harris. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20283 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:33:53 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20282 Businesses should have to ask for individuals' consent before sharing anonymised personal data with third parties, digital rights campaigners have said. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20282 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:32:49 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20266 The FBI last month gave temporary security clearances to scores of U.S. bank executives to brief them on the investigation into the cyber attacks that have repeatedly disrupted online banking websites for most of a year. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20266 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:46 +1000 Legal, Privacy & Security