October 30, 2002
October 29, 2002
CNET News.com: Who owns your e-mail? (customer sues Canadian ISP that kept her account open for incoming e-mail but denied her access to the messages) (also see Privacy Commissioner of Canada ruling; Canadian privacy legislation; and the customer's own account of the incident)
CNET News.com: Promise of P3P stalls as backers regroup (also see Platform for Privacy Preferences project overview and CPSR's P3P FAQ)
October 24, 2002
October 21, 2002
CNET News.com: Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover web (federal court rejects ADA suit challenging Southwest's inaccessible web site)
CNET News.com: Direct marketers want anti-spam laws (not surprisingly, the type of law favored by the DMA would simply prohibit forged message headers; the result would be to legitimize spam, and the quantity of spam would increase dramatically, so no legislation at all would be far better)
October 19, 2002
Wired News: Privacy czar: Past haunts present (Peter Swire compares war against terrorism to 1950s anticommunism)
October 15, 2002
Wired News: Spam masquerades as admin alerts (yet another Microsoft-related security vulnerability) (also see CNET News.com; Stop Messenger Spam; and Internet Privacy for Dummies)
October 14, 2002
Wired News: Man sues airlines for fare access (lawsuit contends that Southwest and American Airlines are violating Americans with Disabilities Act by designing their web sites to thwart access by screen reading programs)
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