Stories by Loek Essers

Banking privacy prevails over copyright enforcement, Dutch court rules

Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court ruling this week.

By Loek Essers | 17 May, 2013 15:00

Tags: Brein, Civil lawsuits, legal, ING Bank

German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court

Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday.

By Loek Essers | 16 May, 2013 13:51

Tags: Google, intellectual property, copyright, Civil lawsuits, legal, youtube

German online copyright law to take effect in August

A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into effect on Aug. 1.

By Loek Essers | 16 May, 2013 09:43

Tags: Google, legal, government, internet, search engines

Syria disappears from the Internet again

Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys.

By Loek Essers | 15 May, 2013 14:25

Tags: internet, Renesys

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde to run for EU parliament

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014.

By Loek Essers | 15 May, 2013 12:01

Tags: pirate bay, Peter Sunde, government, Pirate Party, European Parliament

Google has to delete offensive autocomplete results, German federal court rules

Google has to remove search suggestions from autocomplete in Germany if the results are offensive, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled Tuesday.

By Loek Essers | 14 May, 2013 12:46

Tags: Google, Civil lawsuits, legal, internet, search engines

Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands

A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherlands on Monday evening, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday.

By Loek Essers | 08 May, 2013 15:56

Tags: Criminal, Spamhaus, security, legal, cybercrime

Consumer service lawsuit looms for Google in Germany

A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer organizations to start answering customer emails individually.

By Loek Essers | 08 May, 2013 13:57

Tags: business issues, advertising, e-commerce, Google, VZBV, internet, search engines

Apple's privacy policy violates German data protection law, Berlin court rules

Apple violates German data protection law by asking for users' broad, overall consent in its privacy policy, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled.

By Loek Essers | 07 May, 2013 15:10

Tags: Apple, security, Civil lawsuits, legal, VZBV, privacy

Operator of German file-sharing site sentenced to almost four years in prison

A 33-year-old man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison by a German court for running the torrent site torrent.to between December 2005 and April 2008.

By Loek Essers | 07 May, 2013 11:49

Tags: kino.to, torrent.to, intellectual property, copyright, legal, Jens R., Christine Ehlers, German Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringement

EU says Motorola abused its position by seeking and enforcing injunction against Apple

Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (SEPs), the European Commission said in a preliminary antitrust review of the case on Monday.

By Loek Essers | 06 May, 2013 11:52

Tags: Apple, intellectual property, regulation, european commission, patent, legal, Motorola Mobility, government

Systems manager arrested for hacking former employer's network

A 41-year-old man was arrested for allegedly disrupting his former employer's network after he was passed over for promotions, leading him to quit his job and take revenge, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

By Loek Essers | 03 May, 2013 10:24

Tags: Detection / prevention, intrusion, security, data breach, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Exploits / vulnerabilities, data protection

Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers

The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located in foreign countires -- to do research, gather and copy evidence or block access to certain data.

By Loek Essers | 02 May, 2013 10:47

Tags: Simone Halink, legislation, government, data protection, privacy, cybercrime, Ivo Opstelten, Detection / prevention, intrusion, security, data breach, legal, Forensics, encryption

Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies

Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copyright levies for offering access to copyright protected materials online.

By Loek Essers | 01 May, 2013 13:00

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, e-commerce, intellectual property, copyright, Belgacom, legal, Music and audio, Telenet, SABAM, internet, Voo

Wolfram Alpha study of Facebook users details relationship cycles

The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis of Facebook data by Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram.

By Loek Essers | 26 April, 2013 15:40

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, Wolfram Research, social media, internet, search engines, Facebook

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