EU privacy watchdogs say Facebook changes ‘unacceptable’: “Europe’s privacy watchdogs have issued a rebuke to Facebook, telling the social networking site that changes it made to the site’s privacy settings late last year were ‘unacceptable’.“…
Blog libel suit thrown out because potential damage was so small: “A libel suit against a website has been thrown out of court because the potential damage to the reputation of the person making the…
Hurt Locker Makers To Sue Thousands of BitTorrent Users | TorrentFreak Written by Ernesto on May 12, 2010 The makers of the Oscar-winning movie Hurt Locker have joined a very lucrative ‘pay up or else’…
AFP: Japan must crack down on child porn: activists (AFP) – 14.05.2010 TOKYO — Japan’s government must crack down on rampant child pornography, which proliferates on the Internet causing great mental anguish for its victims,…
Only in the UK….. Twitter responds as ‘joke’ bomber prepares to stand trial | Metro.co.uk: “Twitter responds as ‘joke’ bomber prepares to stand trial 10 May 2010 As Twitter user Paul Chambers prepares to stand…
TH – Thailand censors more websites as protests persist: (AP) George Orwell’s ‘1984’ had its Big Brother, and Thailand has Ranongrak Suwanchawee. The country’s information minister stares down from billboards along Bangkok’s expressways, warning that…
EU Parliament calls for data rights charter: “Internet users should be able to demand that their information is removed from company systems even if it was collected with their consent, the European Parliament has said….
US telco watchdog finds new legal basis for regulating ISPs: “The US telecoms regulator has redefined internet access in order to assert its authority to regulate the provision of broadband access there. The regulator recently…
Facebook criticised over latest privacy lapse: Facebook is facing growing criticism of its privacy policies after an embarrassing technical error exposed users’ private conversations to others. (Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)
Secret copyright treaty published: A secretive global negotiation on new copyright rules will not force countries to adopt ‘three strikes’ internet disconnection policies. A draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been published officially…