You may recall a few months back that Google admitted that a rogue engineer wrote some code to use its fleet of Street View vans to collect data from unsecured wireless networks.

Today, Google sent an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office explaining that it sort of, you know, didn’t delete that data. The ICO responded to the email and requested to examine the data before it is destroyed. I’m honestly not sure if I think that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

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• GoogleNeverActuallyDeletedThatStreetViewBreachData

It’s a popular week for judges ordering people to turn over their social media accounts to third parties. On Thursday, a US district court judge ordered Icelandic Minister of Parliament and former Wikileaks volunteer, Birgitta Jondottir, to release her login credentials to the Justice Department. Additionally, the court opined that users have a lessened expectation of privacy with respect to their IP addresses, particularly where they agree to Twitter’s Terms of Service.

Today the Senate voted down a bill that would have overturned the FCC’s new Net Neutrality Rules. The current Rules are set to enter into force on November 20, although we can certainly anticipate a last ditch attempt at a preliminary injunction by the wireless providers.

Gavel bang to Ed Walters’ Google+ page for bringing this chart to my attention. Obviously as “persons interested in the law” it’s important for us to know how to get caffeine into our bodies without all those pesky calories. Infographic from the good people at Information is Beautiful.

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• InformationIsBeautiful|CaffeineandCalories

Eric Goldman thinks it may have as a result of a broad statutory definition of “book.” For another analysis, read Eugene Volokh’s analysis of whether the statute would prevent bookstores from reporting patron-on-patron crime.

A study published yesterday by the International Center for Law & Economics seems to indicate that Microsoft uses Bing to promote its own products to a greater extent than Google uses Google to promote its own products. Might this have some effect on pending antitrust actions?

TechCrunch reports that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has seen a 90% decline in traffic since since implementing the EU’s new Cookie Law.

Congress is looking into former FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker’s recent move to Comcast. For those of you who don’t know, Ms. Baker recently voted to allow Comcast to acquire a majority stake in NBC, and then jumped ship to lobby for Comcast. I, for one, welcome the inquiry.

Those of you who follow me on twitter may have caught that I had to change my credit card as a direct result of the Playstation Network getting hacked almost a month ago. The Playstation Network recently resumed service in North America and in other parts of the world, only to be hacked again within a few days.

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From an article I assumed had been sourced by The Onion, it seems that YouTube will soon require that copyright offenders take a copyright law class before their accounts will be reinstated. This could be a good thing so long as an “offense” isn’t tantamount to “DMCA request received.” That’s unrealistically optimistic, though.