Google Data Admission Angers European Officials: (New York Times) European privacy regulators and advocates have reacted angrily to the disclosure by Google, the world’s largest search engine, that it had systematically collected private data since…
Pressure Grows on Spain to Curb Digital Piracy: “Critics say it will be difficult to stop illegal downloading in the country because of the popularity of file-sharing sites and a perceived indifference to piracy as…
Germany Asks Google to Surrender Private Data: “The demand by a German regulator increased pressure on the company over its collection of private data from unsecured home wireless networks. (Via NYT > Technology.)
Google claims its privacy protections are adequate in response to regulators’ criticisms: “Google has responded to the criticisms of 10 privacy commissioners and their demands that it improve its record on the privacy protections in…
Woman loses privacy case over Bebo pictures published in magazine: “A magazine did not intrude into a young woman’s privacy when it published photos that she had uploaded to social networking site Bebo when she…
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…