Privacy watchdog calls Home Office plans threat to British way of life: “The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that a single database of phone and internet usage records would undermine the ‘British way of…
As of today access to the popular blogging website Blogger.com has been blocked in Turkey with a blocking order of the Diyarbakir First Criminal Court of Peace (dated 20.10.2008 and order no. 2008/2761). The reason…
‘Notice-and-Take-Down’: “Dutch ‘Notice-and-Take-Down’ Code of Conduct issued Minister for Foreign Trade Heemskerk kicked off the ‘Notice-and-Take-Down’ Code of Conduct in The Hague. The Code sets out how internet companies are to handle reports about illegal…
EU – Commission welcomes European Parliament’s strong support for a new Safer Internet Programme: “(RAPID) The European Parliament cast an overwhelmingly positive vote on the report drafted by MEP Roberta Angelilli which supports the launch…
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data retention objections: “The European Union’s Data Retention Directive was not procedurally flawed and should not be repealed, an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Plug Pulled on Hamas’ YouTube Ripoff | Danger Room from Wired.com By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 15, 2008 | 4:44:00 PM A few weeks ago, Western intelligence officials discovered that the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas had…