CyberLaw Blog

Archive for August 18th, 2009

Oz gov suggests world’s worst copyright protection scheme: “

Desperate to retain internet villain of the year title

After taking the prize of internet villain of the year for worst internet blocking proposal on the planet, the Australian Government appears determined to do the double, with what has already been described as the world’s worst comms interception scheme.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Mandy not swayed by ents mogul on illegal file sharing: “

Says piracy chat with David Geffen never happened

The government has dismissed reports that suggest business secretary Lord Mandelson plans to crackdown on illegal file sharing, by slapping hefty fines on thousands of individuals found guilty of abusing their web access.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Changes confirmed for data protection and freedom of information appeals: “People appealing against rulings by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will face a new tribunal structure from January next year. The Information Tribunal, which hears appeals on ICO rulings, will become part of a wider system.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

38% of large US companies have full-time email monitoring staff, claims research: “Nearly four in ten companies have staff whose main job is to monitor the outgoing email of colleagues, according to US data security research. More than a third of the companies surveyed hired staff to perform only that monitoring function.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Privacy law stops stories before they are published, says Justice Eady: “Newspapers are refraining from publishing privacy-invading stories because of the effectiveness of an emerging law of privacy with its roots in the European Convention on Human Rights, Britain’s leading judge in privacy cases has said.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)