John Gordon Ross

EFF.org Updates » Court: Violating Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, But Bypassing Technical Barriers Might Be

Wednesday 21 July 18:09:58 CDT 2010

Good news: another federal judge has ruled that violating a website terms of service is not a crime. But there's bad news, too — the court also found that bypassing technical or code-based barriers intended to limit access to or uses of a website may violate California's computer crime law. The decision comes in Facebook v. Power Ventures, a case … [Link]

EFF.org Updates » Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns

Wednesday 21 July 4:15:34 CDT 2010

Coauthored by Seth Schoen The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the "National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions" and emphasized, reasonably, the private sector's development of technologies to secure sensitive online transactions. But the recent shift to "Trusted Identities … [Link]

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