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A congressional panel on Wednesday voted, against the Bush administration’s wishes, to shield journalists including advertising-supported bloggers from having to reveal their confidential sources in many situations.
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The IOC Press Commission, chaired by Australian Kevan Gosper, is set to recommend that the IOC’s powerful executive board drop its opposition to athletes writing blogs during the Games when it meets in November.
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a federal court in Kansas that ruled that interactive features on a Web site will not support jurisdiction in a forum unless users there actually accessed the features. (BNA sub req’d) [Capitol Federal Savings
Bank v. Eastern Bank Corp]
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“The websites that solicits online discussion forums must also be equally responsible to protect from the vices of any internet related crimes and the principle of vicarious liability impugn that it is just not good enough to say that the webmaster or e
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“It won’t change our lives. It won’t become the centre of all we do online, adding a new layer of amazement. Google did that. Facebook is just another thing to play with….”
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another said someone they knew was given access to one of their Facebook friends’ inboxes where private messages about them caused no end of grief with personal information falling into the wrong hands.