According to this report, four Italian police officers have been arrested for allegedly accepting cheese as bribes from motorists they pulled over.  Read more »

Chile's Supreme Court has stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity in order to bring him to trial on charges of embezzling public funds. The prosecution case alleges that secret overseas bank accounts were established for his family members.

Originally by ABC News: Politics, 9:15 PM

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In its first interpretation of remedies available under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the 3rd Circuit ruled that civil claims are allowed. In the case, an employer alleged that former employees used information wrongfully obtained from the employer's computer system. The 3rd Circuit's decision is particularly significant to employers, who may now obtain federal court jurisdiction and assert a claim without meeting all of the requirements under traditional common law and trade secret claims.  Read more »

An anonymous reader writes "A UK teenager who was cleared last year of launching a denial-of-service attack now faces a retrial. Judges have ruled that crashing a server with five million emails probably isn't permitted under the law. With NASA hacker Gary McKinnon vowing to fight on after losing his extradition fight yesterday, it's been a busy few days for the UK courts."

Originally by CowboyNeal at Slashdot: Your Rights Online, 2:22 PM  Read more »

After pointing out a hole in the security of a USC database, a computer expert finds himself on the short end of the legal stick.  Read more »

A 21-year-old man in California has received one of the harshest sentences for cyber crime, but Internet polls say it should have been longer.

Originally by ABC News: Science and Technology, 1:42 PM

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From Overlawyered: 'Laura Lee Medley was making a regular career of filing claims against various Southern California entities complaining of violations of her rights as a wheelchair user under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Placed under arrest after police sniffed fraud, Medley leaped from her chair and led authorities on a brief chase which ended with her capture:  Read more »

In the first trial of its kind in the United States, a federal jury in Los Angeles recently convicted a retired painter of illegally bringing a camcorder into a movie theater to record "The Legend of Zorro." The jury's decision against Manuel Sandoval was the first brought under the U.S. Family and Entertainment Copyright Act. The year-old law makes it a crime to upload a copyrighted work onto the Internet, and makes it a felony, not just a misdemeanor, to copy a movie in a theater using a camcorder.  Read more »

They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine. Plus: Retail-Safe RFID Unveiled.

Originally by Wired News: DAT's Entertainment, 10:54 AM

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The Federal Trade Commission has concluded its first major spyware-related lawsuit, slamming down a US$4 million hammer against Sanford Wallace and his company, Smartbot.net. Will this have any effect in the War On Malware?

Originally by Ars Technica, 10:44 AM

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