Frank Jordans of the Associated Press reports: You have been tagged in 12 photos. Even if you’re not signed up to the Web site. European regulators are investigating whether the practice of posting photos, videos and other information about people on sites such as Facebook without their consent is a breach of privacy laws. The…
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Privacy groups urge Supreme Court to protect text message privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the United States Supreme Court today to ensure that modern communications methods such as text messages retain the constitutional privacy protections applied to earlier technologies. In an amicus brief in City of Ontario v. Quon, EFF sided with a public employee who was allowed personal use of his work…
Google stops censoring in China
Everyone’s writing about Google’s cessation of censoring search results in China. Here’s a sampling: Thomas Claburn reports: Ending months of speculation, Google on Monday stopped censoring search results in China. The company has done so by redirecting searchers who arrive at Google.cn, its search site in China, to Google.com.hk, which relies on servers based in…
Privacy International to set up $1m Asian privacy network
Ian Grant reports: The Canadian International Development Research Centre has awarded a $1m contract to UK-based civil rights campaign group Privacy International to set up an Asian privacy network. Announcing the deal at Privacy International’s 20th anniversary celebration in London, executive director Simon Davies said the network would include Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines…