Privacy & Intellectual Property
Czech Pirate Party Beats Anti-Piracy Union in Fight Over TV Links
The Czech Anti-Piracy Union lost on a technicality, allowing the pirates to claim a symbolic victory.
UK ISPs to Send ‘Educational’ Emails to Pirates
Targeting peer-to-peer piracy by telling kids about copyright demonstrates just how clueless institutions can be.
Telstra Defeats Aussie Privacy Commissioner Over Metadata
Federal judges decided the Australian Privacy Act does not force telcos to give detailed service data to customers.
EU Proposes New Comms Privacy Regulation
The ePrivacy Regulation is meant to update privacy rules for electronic comms, addressing issues raised by OTT services and the IoT.
The Echo Is Listening; or Why We Bug Ourselves
The voice interface of the Amazon Echo leads to recordings being transmitted and stored on Amazon's servers. The police, and others, may want that data.
Swedish Supreme Court Rules Sports Broadcasts Not Protected by Copyright
Telcos increasingly make money by exploiting exclusive rights to sports. Is the law on their side?
Coffee to Go? Privacy Already Gone
What would you give for a cup of coffee? This video from Cifas shows how people risk identity theft by sharing their Facebook profile with strangers.
IMSI-Catcher Disguised as HP Printer
The external appearance of the device made by conceptual artist Julian Oliver gives no hint of the trickery which lies inside.
Turning WiFi into an IMSI-Catcher
Oxford academics found two privacy flaws which allow WiFi devices to track mobile phones.
Linking to Unlicensed Content: Copyright Infringement or Not?
A Swedish court was the first one to apply an important recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
How Even Pokémon Go Infringes Copyright…
Sharing a photograph of a building or statue can be a copyright infringement, even if it is in the background... and a Pokémon is standing in front of it.
10 RAFM Issues: The Rise of Biometrics
Biometric technology has improved rapidly in recent years. We should be keen to adopt biometrics that will prevent fraud, whilst remaining mindful of the many risks.
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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