As reported in the preceding issue of E-TIPS®, (“The BlackBerry Security Saga in Asia Shifts to India”, Vol 9, No 4, August 25, 2010), the Indian Government (India) threatened to ban Research In Motion’s (RIM’s) BlackBerry e-mail and messenger services (BlackBerry Services) unless RIM gave India the capability to monitor the encrypted BlackBerry Messages (BBMs) which pass through RIM’s proprietary network. | MORE 

In Hershkovitz et al v Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd (2010 FCA 190), the Federal Court of Appeal (Court) has made patent disclaimers generally fatal to the patent, based on reasoning which, to this commentator, appears to be faulty. | MORE 

On August 30, 2010, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ordered Canada’s largest telecom providers to make their Internet access services available to smaller independent ISPs and supply them with the same speeds that they offer their own retail customers. The decision mirrors a similar decision made by the CRTC in December 2008 (see E-TIPS® “Large ISPs Ordered by CRTC to Give Equal Access to Smaller ISPs” December 17, 2008, Vol 7, No 13). | MORE 

A controversial law proposed by the German Interior Minister would limit recruiters’ ability to take into account information from Facebook profiles before hiring or eliminating candidates. The law would attempt to define proper recruiting techniques and to prohibit those seen to be improper. | MORE 

On August 13, 2010, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that Ontario has jurisdiction and is the convenient forum for Conrad Black’s Internet libel suits, styled as Black v Breeden et al. Between February 2004 and March 2005, Conrad Black filed six libel actions in the Ontario Superior Court, relating to statements posted on the Hollinger International, Inc (Hollinger) web site. The defendants in the actions are directors, advisors and a Vice-President of Hollinger. | MORE 

William Lynn, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense, writing in the latest issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, confirmed that in 2008 the US military suffered a significant breach of its classified military computer network. The cause of the breach was the insertion of an infected flash drive containing malicious computer code into a US military computer at a base in the Middle East. According to Lynn, the code spread on both classified and unclassified military systems, allowing data to be transferred to servers under foreign control. | MORE 

As reported earlier (“High Frequency Trading Re-Visited – After Wall Street’s Freefall” Vol 8, No 23, May 19, 2010), the US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched investigations into anomalous trading patterns during 2009 and 2010. | MORE