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With a bunch of recent attention on the metaverse, our host decides to enter it. His verdict? Fascinating ...
Feb. 7, 2022
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Obscenity trial: An article in Thursday’s Section A about a website maintained by federal appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski paraphrased Corynne McSherry, staff attorney at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, as saying that just making music files available, even if no one downloaded them, might run afoul of the law.
June 17, 2008
Technology and the Internet
This is a week that Snapchat probably wishes were over.
May 15, 2014
Music
The Electronic Frontier Foundation asks the music industry to drop its case against a Playa del Rey man who says he doesn’t download songs.
Oct. 14, 2003
World & Nation
A San Francisco privacy group sued the Justice Department seeking information about electronic surveillance systems used to intercept personal communications.
Oct. 4, 2006
A dozen consumer advocacy and civil liberties groups urged a federal judge Friday to reject the major record companies’ attempt to force Verizon Internet Services to identify a customer accused of extensive music piracy.
Aug. 31, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
A civil-liberties group sued the major Hollywood studios and television networks Thursday in a bid to define consumers’ TV-recording rights for the digital age.
June 7, 2002
Business
Google is being accused of invading the privacy of students using laptop computers powered by the Internet company’s Chrome operating system.
Dec. 2, 2015
Obituaries
John Perry Barlow, an activist and independent voice who foresaw the internet’s far-reaching implications, and who turned life’s difficulties into adventures in songs he wrote for the the Grateful Dead, has died at his home in San Francisco.
Feb. 8, 2018
Software pioneer Mitch Kapor, founder and former chairman of Lotus Development, has found a new high-tech crusade to keep him busy: fighting overzealous computer crime stoppers.
July 10, 1990