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Student alleges his computer was seized unfairly
A Boston College graduate student is challenging the legality of a warrant that enabled police to search his dorm room and seize several of his computers, an iPod, a cell…
Your MySpace rant will go down on your permanent record
If you write something on the internet, you can't later claim it was private. That's the surprisingly commonsensical ruling in the case of Cynthia Moreno, a California college student who…
Law school intervenes in Google book-scanning settlement
A federal judge will allow New York Law School to argue that a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit about Google Book Search should be delayed pending further review, reports…
Apple sued for promoting iPhone as an eBook reader
An overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touch-screen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago, Apple…
FTC urged to investigate security of Google services
An online privacy group is calling on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google is making deceptive claims over the security of data stored in cloud-computing services such…
Cyber-squatting cases hit record in 2008
Yale University was among a record number of organizations filing "cyber- squatting" cases in 2008 to stop others from profiting from their famous names, brands, and events, Reuters reports. …
Hackers transfer $200,000 out of school’s bank account
Officials with the Carl Junction R-1 School District in Missouri say computer hackers apparently were able to transfer nearly $200,000 out of the district's bank account, reports the Joplin Globe.…
Facebook named in cyber-bullying suit
A Long Island, N.Y., teenager has sued Facebook, some of its users, and those users' parents in a lawsuit that alleges the teen was traumatized through cyber bullying on the…
Supreme Court enters the YouTube era
The advent of online video links as evidence has the potential to unsettle the way judges do their work, reports the New York Times. …
Judge throws out lawsuit against Google Street View
A ruling issued Feb. 18 by Judge Amy Reynolds Hay in a Pennsylvania district court states that Google's Street View mapping service is not an invasion of privacy, reports Ars…