   May 30, 2004 - June 05, 2004 ArchiveJune 04, 2004Iceland Supreme Court Freezes DNA Database
The court ruled that Iceland's Health Database Act violates constitutional privacy protections.
Why Google Should Be Good on Privacy
Miguel Helft puts it nicely: Google's "we're not evil" ethos led to its gutsy stand against IPO madness, so why shouldn't it apply those kind of principles to its handling of privacy?
June 03, 2004China Bans Video Game for "Distorting" History
The Swedish-made "Hearts of Iron" depicts several parts of China as independent nations and treats Taiwan as part of Japan.
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Babs Ordered to Pay Legal Fees in Bogus Privacy Suit
Ms. Streisand will pay $177,000 in legal fees after suing a retired software engineer for snapping an aerial photo of the section of California coastline where her house happens to sit.
May 31, 2004Ireland Considers Emergency Copyright Bill
To fend off the litigious grandson of James Joyce. To complicate matters, the fight is over work that was snatched from the public domain by retroactive copyright-term extension.
Counties Decide to Wait Out E-Voting Storm
Questions continue to erupt about the reliability and security of electronic voting, so some counties are keeping their wallets shut until the situation improves.
Thinking Through the National ID
Pressure for a U.S. national ID is increasing, but so are questions about the efficacy of the systems that are supposed to enable the card to provide enhanced security.
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Who Tests E-Voting Machines?
The New York Times on the disturbing answer.
Florida Secretary of State Claims E-voting Machines Aren't Computers
She went on to explain that they are magical boxes with microprocessors and hard drives. That run Windows.
Pushing the Definition of "Aid and Comfort" in Idaho
A Muslim graduate student at the University of Idaho is on trial after being prosecuted under PATRIOT for serving as a webmaster for several Islamic fundamentalist sites.
Sony Signs Audible Magic for Anti-Piracy Post
The Japanese giant will use Audible Magic in a range of enforcement efforts.
P2P Traffic Shifts Lanes
A new study claims that filesharers are fleeing KaZaA for programs like eDonkey, but the overall level of file sharing remains stable.
Print Fiction: When Biometrics and Bureaucracy Go Wrong
The New York Times with a cautionary tale about a man whose fingerprint records were mistakenly switched with someone else's, and how it took six years to and two months in jail to clear it up.
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