CyberLaw Blog

Archive for October 22nd, 2008

Advocate General rejects Ireland’s data retention objections: “The European Union’s Data Retention Directive was not procedurally flawed and should not be repealed, an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Ireland’s argument that the law was wrongly adopted has been rejected.”

The decision can be accessed here.

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks: “

Trojanised Home Sec comes home to infect Parliament

Is the UK Government about to turn world class hacker? It’s going to have to if the Germans succeed in getting their domestic programme of planting Trojans onto suspects computers adopted by the EU.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

German privacy watchdogs agree social networking ground rules: “Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people’s use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a panel of all that country’s data protection officials.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

U.S. Identity Theft Convictions Up 26 Percent, Feds Say: “Identity theft convictions in the United States increased 26 percent in 2007 from the year before, the Bush administration reported Tuesday. Still, 1.6 million complaints of identity theft are on file with the Federal Trade Commission.

(Via Wired News.)

BBC News: Porn protesters hit Westminster

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Models wearing chains, stockings and gags have been led around Westminster in protest at laws to make owning “extreme pornography” illegal.

From next year, possession of images such as those showing a threat to life or serious injury to a person’s genitals will be banned.

Demonstrators opposite Parliament described this as the government interfering with people’s sex lives.

Ministers argue the law is needed to cope with more use of internet images.

Traffic hold-up

The demonstration, organised by the Consenting Adult Action Network, was led by photographer Ben Westwood, son of fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood.

He paraded two “slaves” – models called Jade and Dolly Blowup – across the road from Westminster underground station and around Parliament Square, with police having to hold up the traffic.

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