• Supreme Court Debates Patentability of Software
  Justices look skeptically at the details of software's
  protection.
  
• Toward an Ethical Patent System
  European citizens unite against over-broad patents....
  
• Bad Patents Are Bad for Business
  ... as does the European business community to go with it.
  
• Canada Turns Away Americans for Past Misdemeanors
  Thanks to DHS data mining, Canada turned away a visitor who
  shop-lifted during a fraternity prank 20 years ago and
  others with minor criminal records.
  
• Has the Media Center Moved to Silicon Valley?
  On the day of the Oscars, Tom Forenski thinks that films
  have lost their magic, and Net technology has seized it.
  
• Whit Diffie Warns Of Overbroad Privacy Laws
  "I am, on balance, more pleased with the fact that I can
  learn lots of information about people in minutes by using
  the Web than I am concerned about the fact that people can
  learn lots of information about me that way. And I would
  not like to see laws that restrict people's ability to go
  investigate things. "
  
• Protect Your Users' Data With a Privacy Wall
  How one company works to protect its users' financial
  information.
  
• SF Chronicle: Reverse Real ID
  "Congress must take a hard look at whether it makes sense
  to proceed with an expansive law that would be more
  appropriately called the National ID Act."
  
• North Korea and the Internet
  North Korea's strange, inward-looking national intranet.
  
• Did WIPO's Director-General Lie About his age?
  Confidential report suggests that he was 28 when he first
  took the job, not 37, and has repeatedly given the wrong
  age on official documents for 24 years.
  
• The "Crime" of Blogging in Egypt
  Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman is sentenced to four years for
  free speech.
  
• Recording Industry Targets Colleges
  Administrators get caught in the crossfire: "[The
  complaint] is asking us to pursue an investigation and as
  the service provider we don't see that as our role", says
  Purdue spokesman.