From the monthly archives:

December 2003

Don’t Even Think About Accessing Computer Data Without Permission

December 19, 2003

This AP story reports that an employee of a market-intelligence company pleaded guilty to federal charges of obtaining unauthorized access to a customer’s computer files. The files included passwords and personal data of the customer’s own customers. The market-intelligence employee reportedly downloaded the data to CDs and stored it at his house, just because he [...]

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Marketers, Be Careful About Your GET Statements

December 9, 2003

Recently, several pharmaceutical companies narrowly dodged a privacy class-action bullet concerning their collection of data about Web-site visitors. See In re Pharmatrak, Inc. Privacy Litigation, No. 00-11672-JLT (D. Mass. Nov. 6, 2003) (granting summary judgment for defendants), copy available at the BNA Web site, on remand from 329 F.3d 9 (1st Cir. 2003) (reversing and [...]

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Bandwidth Management to Keep Copyright Police Away

December 9, 2003

It’s said that a non-trivial portion of the Internet bandwidth consumed by businesses is taken up by illegal employee downloading of music and video files. This ComputerWorld column suggests that businesses can reduce their risks of being targeted by the record industry, video industry, etc. — and reduce costs too — by deploying bandwidth-management software:

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