Wendy Davis reports: The fast-growing Chatroulette has been hailed as the next viral sensation. But the site, which enables users to video chat with strangers, also could become a poster child for the end of online anonymity. Now it’s emerged that a new site, ChatrouletteMap, is combining screenshots of users with their physical location on…
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Is Disclosing a 911 Call to the Public a Privacy Violation?
Law professor Dan Solove writes: Whenever there’s a story these days about an emergency 911 call, the call is often disclosed to the public. Recently, there was news of yet another public disclosure of a 911 call, this time a call by a woman who witnessed the suicide of Marie Osmond’s son. I’ve long thought…
Mr Justice Eady: ‘The law of privacy is a new creature requiring a terminology and language of its own’
Judith Townend reports: An absence of existing privacy law in England has led to Parliament giving the courts a “free hand” to apply Strasbourg jurisdiction directly, the High Court judge Mr Justice Eady said last night. “There were few established domestic rules to get in the way,” he said. Marking the launch of City University…
FTC Releases Agenda for Final Roundtable on Consumer Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission has released the agenda for its final roundtable on consumer privacy issues scheduled for March 17, 2010, at the FTC Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Ave,. NW Washington DC, 20001. The Roundtable is the last of three public events designed to explore the privacy challenges that are posed by technology and…