The conviction, which includes jail time, is for privacy violations involved in allowing Google Video content to be posted. This meant that, beyond any civil penalties and damages, Google execs faced the possibility of jail time.
If the communciation lacked a "legitimate purpose," the sender faced jail time," Ars Technica reported. The constitutionality of the new law seems to be in question, according to Ars Technica, because the "law doesn't require that the picture be of...
Daniel Tzvetkoff, who had been facing 75 years jail in the US, has done a deal with prosecutors which has seen him freed on bail and living in a secret New York location.the Courier Mail reported. An Australian newspaper reported that the...
Arrogance About Your Google Ranking Can Land You In Jail by Frank Watson During a week when censorship of WikiLeaks' publishing of US government cables is being discussed and people suggest the founder Julian Assange be killed, UNESCO announced the...
So while he may have gamed the system, he really did not understand how social media would show how much of backlash there can be and how that gets the attention of the government and law enforcement.
Last month three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations and received suspended six-month jail sentences over a video showing a teenaged boy being bullied. Seems the Italian government is not finished investigating Google.
If you jail cyber-dissidents - that's censorship. We've put together a handy little guide so that government regulators of all nations, but mostly China, know when they've crossed that dirty little line over to censorship.
The Italian government believes Google had a responsibility of the published video when it was placed on YouTube, one of their properties. The Associated Press reported that Italian prosecutors are seeking "six-month to a year sentences for four...
Friday we reported that Yahoo was cited for helping to jail a Chinese dissident. Then Mary Osako starts explaining that this is a government-to-government issue, etc. Today I noticed that Forbes reports Yahoo's Mary Osako saying, "We are unaware of...
Yahoo just took another pummeling this week over accusations email it handed over helped jail a third activist. The story covers suggested accusations that Baidu got China to block Google in 2002 (which Baidu denies) and how the Chinese government...
helping Chinese authorities in jail a dissident. Closer to home, there was the U.S.government demand the major search engines hand over massive quantities of search data. Doing business in certain countries presents U.S.companies with challenging...
Yahoo helped jail another Chinese 'net dissident, Li Zhi from Boing Boing and Yahoo accused in jailing of 2nd China Internet user from Reuters covers Yahoo being accused of handing over evidence to the Chinese government about another activist.
Rights group says Yahoo's cooperation helped China jail journalist from the Associated Press has Reporters Without Borders saying Yahoo gave the Chinese government information that helped them trace a Yahoo email address to Chinese journalist Shi...
Domain name tricksters may land in jail/. Popular lists such as the "500" lists published by Forbes and Fortune magazines are included, but you'll also find more obscure lists like the Metal Construction News Top 100 Metal Builders and Marketers...
