Told ya: Lawsuit seeks disclosure in credit card heist (In conjunctions with post from GeeWhiz)

Senators propose sweeping data-security bill

Class Action Law Suit Filed in Response to CardSystems Disclosure of 40,000,000 Credit Card Accounts

Possible Vicarious Liability for Computer Users in the USA?

United States Supreme Court Decision - MGM V Grokster from Brenda

EFF Information Page on MGM V Grokster

Stephen Northcutt of SANS stated in response to the decision that "...a gun company can produce a "Saturday Night Special" under the law but Grokster has "unlawful intent". Weee Oh."

File-Sharing Networks Can Be Held Liable, Court Rules

Attorney General Proposes Sweeping Changes to Section 2257 of the US Code making any person who posts any sexually explicit image on any online media or service a "secondary producer of pornography". - Link from Anthony

Snowball effect: California ID breach bill gets thumbs-up

I see litigation in the future of MasterCard, Visa and rest: Bank in Utah Says Its Data Was at Risk in Intrusion

Borders, an Out of State Firm, Must Collect California Use Tax for Online Sales - What a horrible decision... now businesses potentially have 49 new taxing authorities and regulatory codes with which to comply.

The Decision in Borders Online LLC V State Board of Equalization

Pfizer Lipitor Patent Overturned At PUBPAT's Request

Kaiser Permanente division fined $200k for patient data breach

H.R. 1201: Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act of 2005

Groklaw: More Stupid Lawsuits
Daniel Wallace (who?) is suing IBM, Novell, and Red Hat for price fixing stemming from their use of the GNU General Public License. He is also suing the Free Software Foundation Inc., who developed the GPL, for conspiring with them to fix prices. Supposedly, this prevents him from earning money within the computer programming field.

Apparently, BJ's is finally taking the security of their customers' credit cards seriously. Of course, it took the FTC's involvement in response to the original breach that cost it's customers. Consider this; If BJ's has to answer to the FTC for the loss of data of a ""small fraction" of its 8 million members," what does it mean for companies like Mastercard and the exposure of credit card accounts of 40 million of it's customers?

How much diligence is due? - Internet Liability

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

This could be a nasty policy:
Your ISP as Net watchdog

Spam sign-up man convicted of harassment

Company settles spyware lawsuit for $7.5M

Novell Hires Another Lawyer for the Team -- Guess What He's Good At?

HIPAA compliance: Time's up

Swedish anti-piracy group broke privacy data act

File-sharing law to be tabled next week: CTV (Canada TV)

Quite a few headlines:
ISPs found innocent of aiding zombie attacks in 'trial'

London man arrested for 2001 Nasa hacking

Japanese Court Nixes New ID System

Texas HS Student Arrested for Unauthorized Computer Access: Student hacker accelerates school computer security

PGP use ruled relevant in child abuse case

PubPat Executive Invited to Testify Before Congress on Patent Reform

Arthur Andersen Conviction Overturned by US Supreme Court: It'd be terrible to have their briber..er...uh legal expenses. Arthur Andersen deliberately instructed workers to shred two tons documents as a direct result of the criminal investigation against them. The punishment faced by Andersen may have been excessive (shut down) but if that is not obstruction of justice, I do not know what is. Read the decision here.