August 30, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald: London council crosses line in its harassment of motorists (traffic officials hoist legally parked car, paint yellow lines under it, put it back down, and issue parking ticket)
AP: Court withdraws opinion on web site access (also see Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines and descriptions by Martin H. Samson and BNA)
August 29, 2001
Politechbot: Borders suspends using facecams after public outcry; follow-up: Borders says it never intended to try facecams (also see Privacy.Org)
August 25, 2001
August 23, 2001
Decided today: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney, No. 00-2289 (4th Cir. Aug. 23, 2001) (also see People Eating Tasty Animals)
August 22, 2001
CNET News.com: Anti-spam group makes up with pollster (MAPS agrees to remove Harris Interactive from its Realtime Blackhole List, after Harris agrees to confirm opt-in requests) (also see InternetNews.com)
August 16, 2001
CNET News.com: Gateway closes a half-dozen Country stores (is it finally starting to dawn on Gateway that their entire comparative advantage arose from not having to collect sales tax — an advantage they lost by opening retail stores? … naah, they’re probably just reinventing the wheel once again)
Reuters: U.S. sites fail EU privacy test
August 13, 2001
Politechbot.com: Dmitry Sklyarov, spamware author? Elcomsoft sells email harvester
New York Times: Rebels in black robes recoil at surveillance of computers (federal judges disable monitoring software)
The Register: Old code defeats new CD anti-ripping technologies
August 10, 2001
InternetNews.com: First PDF worm hits PC users
August 08, 2001
New York Times: Rebels in black robes recoil at surveillance of computers (federal judges disable monitoring software)
New York Times: Rebels in black robes recoil at surveillance of computers (federal judges disable monitoring software)
August 07, 2001
CNET News.com: Web sites prey on rivals’ stores
August 05, 2001
Wired News: Mantle, Mays and AOL discs (AOL CDs are becoming increasingly popular among collectors) — seems strange, but it beats actually using AOL
CNET News.com: Spiegel charges credit cards in coupon gaffe (retailer accuses customers of misusing its online coupon codes, then posts charges to customers’ credit cards for the amount it says they owe, prompting investigations by FTC, BBB, and MasterCard)