Columbia Science and Technology Law Review » spammers http://www.stlr.org Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 STLR Link Roundup – February 27, 2010 http://www.stlr.org/2010/02/stlr-link-roundup-february-27-2010/ http://www.stlr.org/2010/02/stlr-link-roundup-february-27-2010/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:14:14 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=849
  • A federal appeals court held that federal agents need not get warrants to search files shared over peer-to-peer networks, reports Wired.
    • The Pentagon will now allow troops access to online social media like Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace, Business Weekly reports.
    • The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given Google a license to trade energy on the wholesale market, as The Register reports.
    • Notifications of website privacy policies do not appear to actually protect online privacy, the New York Times observes.
    • From Computer Weekly: Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon will have a new court date to determine whether he should be extradited from the United Kingdom to the U.S.A.
    • BBC: Italy convicts Google executives for allowing the posting of a video of the harassment of an autistic teenager (see our earlier post on the case here, and Google’s official response here).
    • From CNET: Google’s Street View map photos do not conform to European Union privacy standards.
    • A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, gives Microsoft a victory by ordering the deactivation of hundreds of e-mail addresses allegedly linked to spammers, reports the Wall St. Journal.
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