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Gary McKinnon is an admitted hacker. He breached U.S. military computers and NASA computers. He has been trying to avoid extradition to the United States:
“…Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon was said to be “distraught” after losing the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. He faces extradition within two weeks.
The unemployed man could [...]

The issue of copyright has been a contentious internet issue. A U.S. court ruling established a precedent:
“…”For non-lawgeeks, this won’t seem important but this is huge,” said Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig.
“In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licences set conditions on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the [...]

The disgraced NBA referee, Tim Donaghy, was sentenced today. He will serve time in prison:
“Tim Donaghy the former NBA referee who was in the middle of a betting scandal was sentenced to 15 months in prison today. U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the Eastern District of New York said she took Donaghy’s [...]

An eighteen year old hacker had charges dropped because he had a “potentially bright career”. Owen Walker was charged as a teen and it was not for a small crime:
“…Investigators called Mr Walker’s programme one of the “most advanced” they had seen, prosecutors said.
He did not take money from people’s accounts, but he [...]

At least one spammer will be going to jail. It is jail time plus a significant amount to financial restitution:
“NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A Brooklyn man was sentenced to more than two years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to sending unsolicited “spam” emails to about 1.2 million subscribers of Time Warner [...]

A court ruling in early July 2008 stated that Google had to give Viacom the history of viewers on YouTube. It seems that Viacom has reversed its demands:
“Viacom has backed off a request to gain access to all YouTube user histories after public outcry over privacy concerns, according to a YouTube blog post.
“We [...]

Google is well known for its minimalist, plain home page. Now there is a change. There is a link to the Google privacy policy. There has been pressure on Google to adhere to the convention of making a privacy policy link available on its main page. Up to this point, Google [...]

A New York court ruling effectively renders Google’s privacy policy useless. Google, the owner of YouTube, must surrender all data about site visitors to YouTube:
“…Google must hand over all the information contained in its logging database, including the login ID of the users who have watched videos, the time they started to watch the [...]

In a lengthy litigation process, the European Court of Human Rights has recognized that the surveillance of telephone communication tramples privacy rights:
“Government phone-tapping practices have violated the right to privacy, the European court of human rights ruled yesterday. It described the legal discretion granted to the government for intercepting communications as “virtually unfettered”. Procedures covering [...]

Even for an internet giant like eBay, a sixty one million dollar fine makes for a rough way to begin the week. A French court has ruled against eBay:
“A French court has fined eBay Inc. $61 million for allowing the sale of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture counterfeit goods on its Web [...]