Tag: law
Non-Electronic Document Management System
Россия. Москва. 30 сентября. Сотрудники Государственной фельдъегерской службы России во время доставки документов проекта закона “О федеральном бюджете на 2015 год и на плановый период 2016 и 2017 годов” в Государственную Думу РФ. Фото ИТАР-ТАСС/ Сергей Фадеичев
With all the hype around Electronic (or Digital) Document Management Systems, I thought I’d share this photo, from this article (in Russian). Nanotechnology…
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On software liability laws
I came across this interesting opinion on software liability. Just to keep them here for the context, the suggested software liability rules include the following:
- Consult criminal code to see if any intentionally caused damage is already covered.
- If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality or code by the licensee, then your liability is limited to a refund.
- In any other case, you are liable for whatever damage your software causes when used normally.
Which sounds reasonable from the position of “let’s sort the security issues”. Even though I’m not a big believer in legal system when it comes to technology issues. But then, there is this:
The software houses would yell bloody murder if any legislator were to introduce a bill proposing these stipulations
with which I personally disagree. I think software houses that do quality work wouldn’t mind at all. The people who would mind are the clients of software houses. Quality always comes at a cost. And raising quality of software immediately means rising the cost of software. And the majority of clients (in my experience) don’t care about quality to the point where they would pay for it. And there are plenty of examples in other industries – food, automobile, furniture, clothes, etc.
Basically, this all just reiterates my points of security and privacy are mythical and/or dead. Mostly, because most people don’t care enough.
Paphos court orders Facebook to remove offensive comments
Cyprus News reports that :
The Paphos District Court has issued an injunction against social media giant Facebook, ordering the company to remove a number of offensive comments posted on a local business profile, aimed at a local man.
The comments, posted on February 4, accuse the man of criminal activities. The original post was still on Facebook on Wednesday morning. It has over 1,000 shares.
Charalambos Savvides of the Ch. P. Savvides & Associates LLC law firm, which handled the case, told the Cyprus Mail that Facebook was not only required to remove the comments but also take steps to ensure that future related comments were taken down immediately.
In-Cyprus has a few more details:
The case concerns comments on Facebook made against a bar owner from Paphos who became the target of a hate campaign which attracted thousands of users who shared and liked the page. The man in question was, according to those who had got the ball rolling on popular social media site, committing various crimes around the town and especially against competing bars.
He was also accused of being a police informant that was getting special protection in the town despite his ‘known illegal activities’.
The man has denied all the allegations against him.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.