Volume VI

Issue : 14: September 18, 2008

• Privacy Commissioner Issues PIPEDA Interpretations
• Metatags Hiding Competitors Mark To Boost Search Is Willful Violation Of Lanham Act
• European Court Allows Extradition of British Hacker to U.S.
• CIRA Panel Denies Request to Transfer Domain Name
• Defamation by Domain Name Misdirection
• Wisconsin City Sued for Removal of Web Links to its Website
• One in Five Bosses Screen Applicants Web Lives

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European Court Allows Extradition of British Hacker to U.S.

The European Court of Human Rights has denied the requests of the British High Court and the House of Lords to prevent the extradition of alleged hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States, enabling U.S. authorities to proceed with the extradition process.

McKinnon, an unemployed systems administrator, allegedly hacked into U.S. military computers in 2001 and 2002 using security holes left from the response to the terrorist attacks and military alerts of September 11th, 2001. U.S. prosecutors want to try McKinnon for allegedly hacking into 97 computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense, and several branches of the military from a bedroom in a north London home, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in system damage.

McKinnon’s lawyers plan to appeal to the British Home Office to deny the extradition request on the basis that McKinnon was recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a variant of autism, and would suffer undue hardship if he is not returned to his home country following a trial in the U.S.

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