The first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. This issue concerns a case between five audiobook publishers and the Swedish ISP ePhone which appealed a lower court ruling ordering the firm to hand…
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Implementing the revised EU electronic communications framework
The Department for Business Innovation & Skills published a consultation on Sept. 13: The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has launched its proposals for implementing the revised EU Electronic Communications Framework. This document sets out our preferred approach to implementation and asks questions on a limited number of specific issues. Stakeholders will have 12…
Lobbying for the privacy bill
Tony Romm writes: The odds of Congress passing an online privacy bill this year get slimmer by the day, leading interest groups to fire up a lobbying blitz with an eye toward 2011. Supporters and critics of the effort are asserting themselves strongly in a debate over how companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook…
Four Questions Google Still Needs to Answer
As a follow-up to the revelation that Google fired an employee, David Barksdale, for accessing user accounts and harassing minors, Gawker.com has posed four useful questions to Google: 1) Has everyone whose privacy was violated by Barksdale been notified? 2) Why weren’t Barksdale’s actions reported to the police? 3) What specific steps is Google taking…