Blogger who didn’t delete comment cannot sue over it, says High Court: “A man who was criticised in the comments section of his own blog cannot sue for defamation because he did not delete the…
ISPs slam CEOP bid to rewrite RIPA: “ ‘Money well spent’ ISPs have hit back after the boss of the UK’s online child exploitation police branded the costs of accessing data on their subscribers ‘ridiculous’.……
NSA whistleblower: Warrantless wiretaps targeted journos: “ Door to room 641A cracked open Russell Tice has dropped another bombshell. More than two years after he leaked the existence of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program to…
Deviants, perverts, ‘weirdos’ – who’s going down?: Opposition rises to extreme porn law Comment The die is cast. From today, it is illegal to possess ‘extreme porn’ – though exactly what that means, despite two…
The Guardian: Police will not target offenders against law on violent porn • New ban expected to bring just 30 prosecutions a year • Women’s groups worried by lack of active approach Rachel Williams, The…
BBC News: Child abuse unit paying for data By Angus Crawford, BBC News, 21 January, 2009 Internet service providers charge up to £65 a time for data The unit set up to tackle child sex…
England’s Extreme Pornography Act and BDSM – Associated Content January 23, 2009 by Heather K. Adams How Will it Affect the UK’s BDSM Community? In just three days, a law will go into effect in…
Hate Speech Allegations in Holland: Dutch Court to Prosecute Islam Critic: “An Amsterdam court ruled on Wednesday that populist Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an outspoken critic of Islam and maker of the anti-Muslim film ‘Fitna,’…
Chaotic Coroners and Justice Bill reels into view Net suicides, gay rights, data transfer – it’s all here Comment While the question of whether cartoon images of children should fall foul of the law has…
New EU rules on non-contractual disputes come into force: “New EU rules on which country’s law should govern disputes in tort (such as claims for negligence and misrepresentation), have come into force. The regulation, known…