It's kind of surprising that more Canadians haven't been talking about the lost government hard drive that led to such a massive loss of data and infringement of privacy.
They had also secured from the information commissioner "a list of named News of the World journalists and a detailed table of data protection infringements between 2001 and 2003", seized during a raid on another private investigator.
And on March 1, 2011, the newly renamed Mission Abstract Data filed patent infringement lawsuits in Delaware federal court against 116 companies, including radio networks owned by CBS and Townsquare Media.
So this is an area where it's currently quite unclear whether big data mining constitutes copyright infringement in the first place.
It says it identified two serious infringements and one very serious infringement of data protection law — with the total sanction breaking down to €300,000 for each of the first breaches and €600,000 for the second.
"I don't think anyone's arguing that Viacom's planning to make any other use of the data [than proving copyright infringement.] But that shouldn't obscure the fact that Google says its data remains in its control and isn't given to third parties, and that's simply not true".
Cyber-hardware maker Hewlett-Packard said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit concerning data storage technology against EMC, hoping for both monetary damages and a halt to EMC using technology from seven HP patents.
Another strand of the proposition feeds back asset-based analytics to customers — offering "actionable intelligence data on assets, type of infringements, regions, sellers etc, so it can be used to benefit the business".
A striking example of such a case is Astrolabe, Inc. vs. Olson et al. (tzdata database), in which Astrolabe claimed infringement by distributing factual data snippets copied from published atlases [ 22].
