EFF Wins DMCA Exemption for Jailbreaking iPhones
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a draconian law that prohibits “circumventing” DRM and “other technical protection measures” protecting copyrighted works according to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Once every 3 years the Copyright Office accepts applications for exemptions from the DMCA clause. Previously this covered such allowed uses as unlocking cellphones and other…
Thankfully Google Latitude Has Long Term Memory Loss
When Google first introduced the Latitude friend locating feature in Google Maps for BlackBerry I was kind of worried. I do not consider myself overly-paranoid but Google already has a wealth of information about me. I was worried about them also storing everywhere I went every day! So I just set my location as static…