An ex-pilot for Virgin Australia is suing the airline for one million dollars relating to back injuries he alleges he suffered due to lugging around 18kg of flight manuals, something he states could not have occurred if the information was stored on an iPad. More »
Stephen Fry, the British comedian and actor, is a fully-fledged geek. Now, in an interview with the BBC, he has lashed out at a generation of technophobic judges who don’t understand the internet. More »
To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the arse. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming activist groups, he plans to transform Facebook’s privacy policy in Europe. More »
In October last year, Apple wrangled an injunction against Samsung from the Federal Court to prevent it from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. A month later, Samsung had the injunction overturned and the company’s been flogging its tablet ever since. Apple, as we know, is not one to back down when it comes to legal matters and has retorted fiercely, augmenting its case with 278 claims across 22 patents — a massive increase over the three patents in the original. More »
The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous — first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005′s Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn’t think the marine in charge should have walked free. This is their payback. More »
A French court has ruled that Google is guilty of abusing the dominance of Google Maps, and so has ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company. More »
Still not sure how US legislative efforts like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) could affect the rule of law on the Internet? On Giz, we’ve posted a detailed primer from the Stanford Law Review, but this video from MSNBC — hosted by Chris Hayes — is another great introduction. More »
Score one for the internet. One of SOPA’s most controversial provisions — DNS blocking — will be removed, for now at least, according to one of the act’s staunchest supporters, Representative Lamar Smith. More »
