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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002392
Appeals court: MySpace parody is protected speech
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| A federal appeals court today agreed that a
| high school student's parody profile of his
| principal was protected free speech.
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| Justin Layshock, who in December 2005
| created a MySpace profile of then Hickory
| High School principal Eric Trosch, filed a
| First Amendment lawsuit against the school
| district, claiming the administration had
| no say over the online parody.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10035/1033504-455.stm
Computer security: fraud fears as scientists crack 'anonymous' datasets
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| Computer scientists in the US have
| discovered ways to "re-identify" the names
| of people included in supposedly anonymous
| datasets.
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| In one example, a movie rental company
| released an anonymous list of film-ratings
| taken from its 500,000 subscribers. Using a
| statistical "de-anonymisation" technique,
| the academics were able to identify
| individuals and their film preferences.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/24/computer-security-crime-anonymous-datasets
Recent:
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
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| Authorities in the northwestern Chinese
| province of Qinghai have handed a six-year
| jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who
| returned from exile to make a documentary
| about his homeland, Tibetan sources say.
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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/filmmaker-01062010111100.html
How online life distorts privacy rights for all
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| People who post intimate details about their
| lives on the internet undermine everybody
| else's right to privacy, claims an academic.
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| Dr Kieron O'Hara has called for people to be
| more aware of the impact on society of what
| they publish online.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8446649.stm
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