Your Rights Online Stories for 2007

US Internet Control To Be Topic #1 In Rio 325
US Bot Herder Admits Infecting 250K Machines 206
Lawmakers Delay Telco Immunity Vote 102
FCC Planning Rules to Open Cable Market 70
Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020 101
Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies 210
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic 566
NY Rejects E-Voting, DOJ Trying to Force the Issue 228
Babelfish Sparks Minor Diplomatic Row 331
The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? 201
Nigerian Government Nixes Microsoft's Mandriva Block 327
FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies 442
Take Two Settles Hot Coffee Suit For Millions 46
Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II 217
Microsoft pays Timeline $5M in Patent Settlement 35
EFF Documentation Victory in Telco Spying Case 89
Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK 432
Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law 229
FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators 162
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney 1033
MLB Fans Who Bought DRM Videos Get Hosed 299
New Network Neutrality Squad — Users Protecting the Net 168
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected 151
School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog 291
National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks 185
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips 214
Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs 293
38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album 562
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU 315
Municipal Wi-Fi - A Promise Unfulfilled? 137
The Implications of a Facebook Society 226
Target May Discontinue Manhunt 2 Sales 71
Sun To Seek Injunction, Damages Against NetApp 183
US Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking 228
Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? 455
US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping 476
Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 482
Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? 251
NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam 73
First RIAA Case Victim Finally Speaks Out 204
Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues 101
Emailed Threats Less Crazy Than Snail Mail 113
Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years 459
Study Says P2P Downloaders Buy More Music 158
China's President Hu Talks IT Warfare 170
Wikipedia Wins Defamation Case 153
ICANN Punts on WHOIS Privacy Proposal 90
Epic's Motion to Dismiss SK Suit Denied 35
U.of Oregon Says No to RIAA 241
EMI Caught Offering Illegal Downloads 182
Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down 501
FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking 178
22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents 219
Hackers Uncensor Manhunt 2 125
BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" 335
Schneier On the War On the Unexpected 405
FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority 63
US Voting Machines Standards Open To Public 115
Court Blocks Controversial New Patent Rules 119
Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying 177
Privacy Groups Mull 'Do Not Track' List for Internet 136
Blogger Wins 1.5 Year Legal Battle 207
Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack 307
Privacy Advocates Bemoan the Problems With WHOIS 174
AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language 119
The Khaki Bandit Strikes At IT - 130 Stolen Laptops 249
FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database 433
FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments 269
Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive 990
Call for a Presidential Debate on Science 610
The Kremlin Tightens Its Grip on the Internet 280
Rochester Judge Holds RIAA Evidence Insufficient 169
Italian Judge Tells HP To Refund Pre-Installed XP 225
Senators Call For Hearing On Carrier Content Blocking 152
GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case 464
Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal 625
Patent Reformers O'Reilly, Bezos Mum on 1-Click 48
Italy's First Steps in Censoring the Internet 90
US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses 352
Technology as Tattletale 69
FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing 403
Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal 391
ECA Plans Games-Related DMCA Showdown 64
Looking for gPhone Clues in Google Patents 41
eBay's Lobbying Efforts May Include the CIA 38
Internet Connection Tax Held Off for A Few More Years 100
Vonage Settles With Verizon for at Least $80M 74
Thompson Sues ESRB, Best Buy 134
South Africa Adopts ODF as a Government Standard 107
Microsoft EU Decision Protects OSS Projects From Suits 186
SanDisk Sues 25 Companies for Patent Infringement 202
Manhunt 2 Could Beat Ban With Digital Download 59
Congressman Tells Comcast, Hands Off BitTorrent 304
NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless 218
Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 512
States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases 440
Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting 100
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma 199
Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites 359
Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering 378
Jaiku Bought By Google, Some Fear Privacy Issues 85
Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL 306
Nintendo Cracks Down on Copying Devices 361
FTC To Take a Second Look at P2P 132
What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety 411
FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" 456
Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures 365
Hellgate Beta's In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows 424
IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To Court 90
Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter 248
Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down 242
Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads 246
EFF Interviewed About Their Case Against AT&T 78
IBM Seeking 'Patent-Protection-Racket' Patent 169
New England Patriots Obtain Online Ticket Reseller Names 233
Vonage Goes To Court III - The AT&T Suit 113
Court Upholds Internet Deregulation 235
TV Links Raided, Operator Arrested 246
eBay The Vote 228
FCC Plan Will Result in Freedom Of or From the Press? 132
Senator Slaps Down FISA Telecom Immunity 206
Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source 601
The Real Problem With the US Patent System 173
Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment 200
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity 658
How to Dodge the Chinese Internet Censor 119
Usenet.com May Find Safe Harbor From RIAA lawsuit 126
Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid 754
Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution 166
USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent 166
BBC Quietly Announces Linux/Mac iPlayer 218
RIAA Sues Usenet.com 495
US House Votes To Renew Internet Tax Ban 123
Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program 279
Critic of Software Patents Wins Nobel Prize in Economics 235
Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages 403
Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies 134
Racketeering Trial of MS and Best Buy Can Proceed 179
Governator Kills Data Protection Law 177
Porn Spammers Get Five Years Each 187
Halo In Church Points Out ESRB Flaws 185
Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators 293
Blog Action Day 216
The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain 212
Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records 216
Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court 283
Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting 177
Universal and Sony Plan "Free" Music Service 98
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early 596
Chinese Internet Censorship Operation Revealed 86
T-Mobile Phone Unlocking Lawsuit May Proceed 116
US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban 522
Amended Internet Tax Ban Will Not Include VoIP 139
Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell 473
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel 937
How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World 256
Qwest Punished by NSA for Non-Cooperation 170
Interview with 'Anti-Gamer' Senator Leland 157
FCC Weighs Net Access Charge Decision 86
"Wiki the Vote" Project Open-Sources Candidate Info 89
Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied 433
AT&T Issues Formal 'Censorship' Apology 98
Mark Webbink Joins Software Freedom Law Center 10
Hacking the Presidential Election 229
Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM" 391
Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks 918
Stalling Cars Via OnStar 737
Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers 207
Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up 520
Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" 286
Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt 370
UK Moves To Allow Human Hybrid Experiments 284
Vonage Settles Patent Suit With Sprint-Nextel 45
Manhunt 2 Rejected By BBFC Again, Rockstar Appeals Again 86
How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter 235
In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism 602
Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail 264
Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued 486
Googlestalking For Covert NSA Research Funding 150
New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' 176
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records 97
Designing Software With Privacy in Mind 77
MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs? 156
Japanese Bureaucrats Reprimanded for Wikipedia Editing 177
Novell to SCO - Pay Up 151
RIAA Conceals Overturned Case 211
Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design 121
Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking 418
White House Lauds MN RIAA Win, Analysis of Victory 368
Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data 136
Court Puts Further Limits on Software Patents 113
China Now Blocking RSS Feeds 73
Open Invention Network Calls Out Microsoft 95
Judges Reinstate Charges In Google Age Discrimination Suit 291
IBM Ditches Outsourcing Patent 85
Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial 1001
Testimony Wraps In RIAA Trial 132
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election 177
GAO Report Slams FCC 117
German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs 176
Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law 201
IBM Patents Checking a Box 186
Science In Islamic Countries 1289
AT&T Denies Censorship, Won't Change Contract 170
Jericho Won't Be Edited For Germany 57
UK Government Can Demand You Hand Over Encryption Keys 426
Bloggers Who Risked All In Burma 338
Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal 267
The Dirty Business of Assembling WiMAX Spectrum 101
LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists 321
Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates 232
IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs 203
Internet Blackout in Myanmar Stalls Citizen Report 185
Hospital Wants Critical Blogger's Anonymity Ended 181
AT&T Silences Criticism in New Terms of Service 298
FDIC Closes Netbank, One of the First Online Banks 174
Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta 231
Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting 161
Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down 121
Motley Fool Says RIAA Hitting a Brick Wall 228
1-Click Rejection Rejected 201
Dutch Commission Deals Blow To Electronic Voting 210
Sony Developing Gigapixel Satellite Imaging 101
Chicago Developing 'Suspicious Behavior' Monitoring System 294
Verizon Reverses Itself On Pro-Choice News Texting Ban 175
The Canadian Taxman Goes Browsing on eBay 221
Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional 414
How Burmese Dissidents Crack Censorship 154
Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing 333
Supreme Court Continues to Address Patent Concerns 78
MMO Bans Men Playing As Women 616
Internet Service Tax Moritorium Set To Expire 163
Watchdog To Represent eBay Seller In Autodesk Suit 80
Bloggers Versus Billionaire 207
GPL Lawsuit May Not Settle 285
Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement 234
Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta 349
Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google 296
WordPress 2.3 Does Not Spy On Users [UPDATED] 229
Apple May Be Breaking the Law With Policy On iPhone Unlocks 385
Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime 573
Unisys Investigated For Covering Up Cyber-Attacks 114
Canadian Copyright Official Dumped Over MPAA Conflict 215
Virgin Digital To Close Up Shop 207
Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics 261
Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time 136
Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3 240
New Attorneys Fee Decision Against RIAA 144
FBI Boosts Servers For Faster Criminal Searches 90
Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? 482

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