Juliette Garside reports: Broadband providers are being asked to create a database of customers illegally downloading music, films and books, which could be used to disconnect or prosecute persistent offenders. Measures to combat digital piracy will be among the topics discussed at a Downing Street breakfast on 12 September, when record-label bosses and their trade association, the…
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Your phone is blabbing your location to anyone who will listen
Devin Coldewey reports: Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements. You can’t turn them off, and companies have begun to pick them up, often without any indication that they’re doing so. As this trend develops, smartphones could spell the end of real-world…
Facebook’s new face recognition policy astonishes German privacy regulator
Loek Essers reports: A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday. “It is astonishing to find the facial recognition again in the new proposed privacy policy that Facebook published yesterday. We therefore have directly tried to contact officials from Facebook to find out…
China’s Regulation on Personal Data Use by Commercial Websites Takes Effect Sept. 1
June Wei writes: In June, we reported on China’s draft Provisions on the Protection of the Personal Information of Telecommunications (the “Personal Information Provisions”), which will regulate the collection and use of personal information by providers of telecommunications, Internet and information services within China. The Personal Information Provisions will come into force on September 1, affecting a wide range…