NebuAd suspends Web-monitoring plans: “ Silicon Valley start-up NebuAd has suspended plans to deploy a controversial program that displays ads based on the monitoring of Web activity while Congress reviews privacy concerns, according to a…
SPLCenter.org: England: “Extremist U.K. Fugitives Arrested in U.S.” Intelligence Report, Fall 2008 Two men fled to the United States after they were found guilty in England of publishing Holocaust denial and racist tracts online, including…
Privacy regulator criticises misuse of Data Protection Act: “Organisations must not use the Data Protection Act as a smokescreen for not giving out information, privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned.” (Via OUT-LAW…
Noted on Bollox Britain provided by http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/ Photographer prosecuted for fairy ‘child porn’ – Yorkshire Post: “Photographer prosecuted for fairy ‘child porn’ A ‘NAIVE’ photographer employed by parents to take pictures of their young daughters…
(Via TorrentFreak.) MPAA Wants ISPs to Cut Off Pirates: “ Following on from the IFPI-inspired Italian blockade of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA’s President has been in Italy offering ideas on how to deal with…
Bidisha: New legislation will outlaw extreme porn – I’m all in favour: “Bidisha: New legislation will outlaw extreme pornography – even the kind some photographers like to call art. I’m all in favour” (Via guardian.co.uk…
Letter lottery determines your exposure to spam: “The amount of spam in your e-mail inbox may depend on the first letter in your address, reveals a study.” (Via BBC News.)
Government data protection standards are protected data: “ We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you As yet another laptop full of confidential data goes up for sale on Ebay – this…
Arrest made over personal data-filled laptop sold on eBay: “Police have made an arrest in connection with the eBay sale of another laptop computer containing personal data. The security lapse follows last week’s eBay sale…