German prosecutors to appeal after Toben’s release (October 30, 2008) PETER KOHN ADELAIDE man Fredrick Toben has won at least a temporary reprieve from being sent to Germany to stand trial for Holocaust denial. In…
Orange ditches Phorm: “ Another blow for data pimping Updated Orange, the UK’s sixth largest broadband provider, is not going to use Phorm’s data-snooping technology.… “ (Via The Register – Comms.)
Reporters Without Borders 31.10 – Turkey: censorship threat to news website Bianet (GIF) Lawyers acting for creationist religious leader Adnan Oktar asked the Turkish news website Bianet (www.bianet.org) on 28 October to remove an article…
(Via Techdirt.) Big Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA’s Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional: “People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on…
Data Protection the DVLA Way: “ Just don’t ask awkward questions Don’t mess with the DVLA, or bad things might happen to your data.… “ (Via The Register – Public Sector.)
ECJ says websites need phone numbers or web forms: “Companies have to provide a means of contact on their websites in addition to their postal and email addresses, the European Court of Justice has ruled….
EU privacy chiefs update rules for overseas data transfers: “The European Union’s data protection authorities have published amended guidance on how companies can legally share customer and staff personal data with parts of the firm…
BBC News: Games firms ‘catching’ non-gamers Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed. The magazine was contacted by Gill and Ken Murdoch,…
Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech | csmonitor.com: “Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech The country’s courts and governments have banned 850 websites this year, including YouTube and Blogger. By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of…
[Blog entry by Yaman Akdeniz] Interesting story developing in Turkey right now. If you would recall Adnan Oktar (Adnan Hodja) is the Turkish creationist who is behind almost 61 blocking orders issued by the courts…