Consumer group asks EU for security breach law: “The National Consumer Council (NCC) has called on the European Commission to force companies who lose customer data to admit the error publicly. It believes a data…
Thailand clamps down on rude websites: “ You’d think they have bigger problems Thai authorities have reportedly moved to shut down hundreds of websites they view as a threat to national security, amid ongoing civil…
File Sharing Is Hard Habit to Break: “Roughly one million people downloaded the season premiere of ‘Prison Break’ from file sharing sites when they could have watched the show legally on either Fox or Hulu…
Thai government censors Internet for ‘national security’: “ Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Wednesday 3 September 2008. 23:42:00 Thai the interweb down, sport SHOWING THE WORLD what it really thinks about all this democracy rubbish, the…
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…