Google blurs faces to protect privacy in French StreetView
Google blurs faces to protect privacy in French StreetView: “Google has chosen to blur the faces of people caught on camera by the French edition of its StreetView service. (Via Macworld.)
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Times Comment: France’s anti-piracy law is like holding a tissue up to the breeze
Comment: France’s anti-piracy law is like holding a tissue up to the breeze: “From Times Online, June 18, 2008, by Jonathan Richards: Using heavy-handed tactics with ISPs is only latest in a line of tactics…
France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes rule
France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes rule: “From The Times June 19, 2008” Anyone who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under…
3-Strikes Law to Disconnect French Pirates
This is an article from: TorrentFreak 3-Strikes Law to Disconnect French Pirates: A few weeks after the University of Washington showed that ‘copyright infringement warnings’ are based on reckless tactics, France announces to use these…
France gets closer to ‘three strikes’ downloader web ban
France gets closer to ‘three strikes’ downloader web ban: International war on pirates part deux The globalisation of internet law continues apace, as French legislators press ahead next week with the ‘loi Hadopi‘. The purpose…
France blocks online child porn, terrorism, racism
France blocks online child porn, terrorism, racism – Yahoo! News: ARIS – France is joining at least five other countries where Internet service providers block access to child pornography and to content linked to terrorism…
British newspaper websites liable in France for privacy invasion
British newspaper websites liable in France for privacy invasion: “Two British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts because they violated French privacy laws. The publishers were liable because the articles were viewed in…