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…

Another late catch up from my hols, mainly for own benefit. Mumsnet, the non-profit site run part-time by single mothers to advise on parenting, has capitulated to Fearsome Lawyers without going to court. Pangloss is rather sad.

From OUT-LAW:

“Mumsnet was sued by Gina Ford, who is famous for…

Re yesterday’s query about when Oyster Card would finally roll out as a multi purpoe contactless small payments card.. look no further.

Interestingly, no mention of legal difficulties round becoming an EMI — only commercial problems with revenue sharing.

Interesting story — the IFPI raid an agent of AllOfMP3.com, the infamous Russian-based illegal download service, in London.

“The individual was allegedly the UK-based European agent for allofmp3.com, facilitating the sale of digital downloads by advertising and selling…

OK v Hello! has finally been decided in the House of Lords (thanks to Loveandgarbage for the tip-off.) This is NOT, it should be stressed, about whether Michael Douglas and C. Zeta-Jones had their privacy invaded at their wedding (that one’s been and gone in a shower of legal fees); it is about whether…

FInally today (honest), the Art 29 WP has issued a significant letter criticising Google’s privacy protection of personal data. Google is now to be the subject of an Art 29 report.

Google’s recent olive branch of increasing privacy protection by anonymising server logs older…

Blogzilla has an interesting post on Generation Y and privacy.

I am in fact usually one of the doom sayers who argues that privacy norms and by extension, regulation, will have to change as the current Web 2.0 generation grows up. But perhaps I’m wrong? My very dear…

Interesting climbdown.

I guess that one can be chalked up as another, albeit belated, victory for the users in web 2.0 culture — rather as with AACS and Digg.

It also makes it fairly plain that LJ’s main worry was probably the appearance of locked communities to advertisers (where the visble content…

Good god the EU people really want their hols don’t they? This one also seems to have been going as long as I can recall..

“The new proposal is called the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive and will replace the TV Without Frontiers Directive. It will permit…

My colleague Technollama and I have long subscribed to the view that PayPal does not really fit the model of an Electronic Money Issuer under Euro law , despite the fact that the UK and other EU countries have agreed to accredit it as such. PayPal itself has now taken the…

Less exciting than LJ censorship, and slightly late, but still significant: Rome II which seems to have been trundling on All My LIfe has finally reached a common agreement as of May 15 2007. the full text of the agreement does not yet seem to be available but many details are on Diana Wallis MEP’s site.

As I’m…