How nice. A wake up call at no extra charge... They chose to reduce the value of their service while continuing to claim otherwise in their advertising. Fraud?
Comcast hit with class-action lawsuit over traffic blocking
By Eric Bangeman | Published: November 14, 2007 - 04:57PM CT
Comcast's traffic management practices have landed the cable giant in court. Yesterday, a California resident filed a lawsuit in state court accusing Comcast of breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and violating the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act.
... Hart is seeking class-action status for the lawsuit, damages, a change in the company's advertising to reflect its traffic-shaping practices, and an injunction barring Comcast from further interference with the "Blocked Applications."
One of those year-end lists you should be embarrassed to make.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071114193725110
A Rogues Gallery of Data Protection Miscreants
Wednesday, November 14 2007 @ 07:37 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
.... without further ado, we present our list of top data protection miscreants. Each comes with a brief explanation of the organization's most prominent disaster, with suggested lessons learned. We've also taken the liberty of ranking the list from least to most negligent, depending on our view of the circumstances -- not the results -- according to the following scale: 5 = Data Protection's Worst Enemy; 4 = Notable Rogue; 3 = Middling Miscreant; 2 = Petty Offender; 1 = Caught Once, Badly.
The List:
* 1) State of Ohio and Accenture
* 2) Deloitte & Touche and McAfee
* 3) TJX
* 4) Los Alamos National Lab
* 5) Department of Veterans Affairs
* 6) Iron Mountain
Source - ByteandSwitch
What happened to a presumption of innocence? (Are they really encrypted file or merely corrupt? How could the court tell the difference?)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/2335202&from=rss
First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 15, @12:22AM from the tell-us-everything dept. Encryption
kylehase writes "The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) is being used for the first time to force an animal activist to reveal encryption keys for encrypted files she claims to have no knowledge of. According to the article, she could face up to two years if she doesn't comply."
Hogwarts School of Law
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/15/0513232&from=rss
Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 15, @03:30AM from the the-first-rule-of-potter-is-you-don't-talk-about-potter dept. The Internet
Snape kills Trinity with Rosebud writes "Apparently famous authors don't like it if you try to make a buck using their imaginary property because J.K. Rowling is suing the publishers of the Harry Potter Lexicon for infringement. This should prove an interesting test case for fair use given that the lexicon contains mostly factual information about the series, not copies of the books' text. Of course, both sides seem a bit touchy about imaginary property rights, with Rowling's lawyers being miffed after being told to print it themselves when they asked for a paper copy of the lexicon's website, and the lexicon website itself using one of those insipid right click disabling scripts."
Earning your trust, every day...
Disappearing Gmail messages baffle users
A steady stream of Gmail users are reporting that their inboxes are being erased, and they find Google's expanations thus far to be lacking
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service November 14, 2007
When Jeneane Sessum logged into her Gmail account on the afternoon of Oct. 27, she was greeted with a horrifying sight: an empty inbox.
... Days earlier in Chicago, Jessica Squazzo, a writer and editor, accessed Gmail and stared at her computer screen in disbelief: All messages from 2007 had disappeared from her inbox.
Sessum and Squazzo are just two of a small but steady stream of Gmail users who regularly report losing some, many, or all of their messages without a clue as to why.
It seems that hardly a week goes by without at least several users reporting this problem on discussion boards, such as the official Gmail Help forum.
How indeed.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016527.html
November 14, 2007
How E-Government Is Changing Society and Strengthening Democracy
GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter Issue 20: How E-Government Is Changing Society and Strengthening Democracy, 48 pages, PDF, November 14, 2007.
This was never secret, was it?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016534.html
November 14, 2007
Free Federal Case Law Archive Available Online in 2008
Press release: "Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose."
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