Associated Press reports on another cyberbullying or harassment case. This case really needs to be read by parents and discussed with their children. It also needs to be discussed in the schools as an opportunity to reinforce the importance of privacy – respect for one’s own and respect for others’. A cyberbully who forwarded explicit…
Category: Court
ECHR upholds Campbell v MGN
Thanks to Inforrm’s Blog, I just found out about RPC Privacy Blog, a new privacy blog by the UK law firm of Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. What better way to introduce readers to them than by providing an excerpt from their coverage of today’s European Court of Human Rights decision in MGN v. United Kingdom, a…
What the Government Wants to Know About You
Catherine Crump of the ACLU writes: Earlier this month, news broke that the government got a court order to force Twitter to reveal the private account information of some people associated with WikiLeaks. What is unusual about the situation is not that the government obtained such an order, but that we found out about it at…
Google to face off against Spain’s data protection authority in court tomorrow
I missed this over the weekend, but in earlier coverage in The Guardian, Josh Halliday had reported: …The technology giant has been ordered to remove almost 100 online articles from its search listings by Spain’s data protection authority, which Google warns would have a “profound, chilling effect” on freedom of expression. […] An injunction against…