Jeff Gorman reports: A law librarian’s free-speech rights weren’t violated when he was fired for blasting his superiors’ alleged “disgusting, degrading, and utterly unprofessional” conduct in an email, a California appeals court ruled. […] Justice McConnell cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 opinion in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which states: “Restricting speech that owes its existence…
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UK: ICO to appeal Court of Appeal’s judgement on database
Should records of minor criminal convictions from years ago remain in a database where they would be accessible to many? The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Information Tribunal didn’t think that would be consistent with the Data Protection Act, but in October, the Court of Appeals reversed their orders to remove such records….
High Court rejects libel case because article received approximately four visits
Out-Law.com describes an interesting libel case in the UK where being able to demonstrate how many people actually accessed the article and from what locality came into play: A libel action over an article that appeared on the website of a South African magazine has been dismissed by a court in England. Evidence suggested that…
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Back in August, when Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, demanded that Google withdraw Street View from Switzerland, Google responded by pledging to blur more and do more to protect personal privacy. Whatever steps Google took were apparently not sufficient, as Frank Jordans of the Associated Press now reports that Thür has…