Privacy & Intellectual Property
ISP Blocking Injunctions: Who Should Pay?
A dissenting legal opinion in the UK may show the route to a European decision to reduce the costs being shouldered by ISPs when rightholders seek to protect their copyrights.
Police 3D Print Dead Man’s Finger to Unlock Phone
The ability to create a substitute finger shows why even biometric controls need to be supplemented by other lines of defense.
Paris Court Rejects Request to Filter ‘Torrent’ Searches on Bing
The French music industry wanted Microsoft to filter searches for pirated music, but the filter was too broad.
Will 5G Be a Battle for National Champions?
The greater the technological difference between 4G and 5G, the greater the potential to create new national champions in countries like China.
US State Changes Law To Steal Pirate Video
North Carolina is accused of changing the law just so it could upload video documentaries about Blackbeard's ship to YouTube.
Whose Phones Do the Police Bug?
The statistics from the United States may surprise you. Relatively few wiretaps relate to the investigation of violent crime.
Is Obscurity Worse Than Piracy?
Successful publisher Tim O’Reilly argues that unrestricted distribution of content on the web helps his business more than anti-piracy controls would.
Watch Hackers Using SS7 to Hijack Whatsapp
End-to-end encryption in messaging tools like Whatsapp can be rendered irrelevant by duplicating the victim's account.
Israeli Firm Says They Can Use SS7 to Bug Any GSM Phone
The CEO of Ability Inc says their Unlimited Interception System can track the location, calls and messages of phones everywhere.
How Quickly Must ISPs Remove Copyright Infringing Content?
An Italian court case addressed when an ISP becomes liable for copyright infringement via its network.
LinkedIn Scammers
There are many fake profiles on LinkedIn. When you receive a connection request, how should you check if the person is who they say they are?
What Anne Frank Teaches Us About Laws in the Internet Era
Activists used Anne Frank's diary to illustrate the impact of differing copyright durations on the global internet.
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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