June 30, 2011
Court Decision Upholding Wi-Spy Wiretap Violations Reaffirms Effectiveness of Existing Privacy Laws
Today the U.S. District Court issued a significant ruling that Google can be held liable for damages under the Wiretap Act because of its Wi-Spy program that [...]
ACT Applauds Supreme Court Decision on Video Game First Amendment Rights
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) applauds the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision today in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association striking down a California law that prohibited, in [...]
Supreme Court Decision Affirms Video Games’ First Amendment Rights
The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision today in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association struck down a California law that prohibited, in part, the sale of certain video games [...]
Voting to Pull the Weeds is Good — Pulling Them Is Even Better
At the ICANN Public Forum in Singapore yesterday, I likened the ICANN to a community garden: fertile, colorful and above all, worthwhile, but not without a few [...]
ACT’s Morgan Reed Testifies before Congress on Modernizing Communication in the House
ACT Executive Director Morgan Reed testified before the Committee on House Administration yesterday on ways in which the House of Representatives could modernize its communications infrastructure to [...]
Fairly examined, truly understood No standardisation is wholly bad, nor wholly good*
In early June, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on European Standardisation intending to “accelerate, simplify and modernise standardisation procedures”. In this document, the [...]