Via Naked Law, belated but important:

“A new anti-terror law has come into effect as of 21 June 2007 : the Electronic Commerce Directive (Terrorism Act 2006) Regulations 2007. Under these new provisions (which operate in conjunction with the Terrorism Act 2006), encouraging acts…

This seems sufficiently remarkable to record without comment:

“A Russian court found the former boss of music download Web site www.allofmp3.com not guilty of breaching copyright on Wednesday in a case considered a crucial test of…

My very smart colleague Judith Rauhofer of UCLAN has made the Telegraph web section today on the back of the upcoming Potterdamerung (the best coinage of the current media drench). What she’s actually talking about is the paper she gave at last…

.. no? well who said you got a choice?

“A 17-year-old college student is taking legal action against a pornographic film company after it “stole” a photograph of her and used it on the front cover of one of its productions.”

One wonders what her threatened cause of action is. Data…

Interesting decision from the States yesterday on immunity of hosts (“service providers”) under CDA s 230 ©.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just determined that Roommates.com — a networking site for people looking for, housesharers, did not deserve immunity under Section 230 of the US…

Wonderful news from Bruce Schneier.


“Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.

Paper at a conference I’m going to in Berlin in July. I’m quite intrigued actually, so there to the undoubted cynics out there :-P

The Gendering and Sex of Online Information
In Session: The Morality and Politics of Search Engines and User-Generated Content 1236…