Eric Sylvers and Eric Pfanner report: Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday in a case that the company says could undermine freedom of expression on the Internet. The case involved online videos showing an autistic boy being bullied by classmates in Turin. They were posted in 2006 on Google…
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Another twist in “webcamgate:” was the student’s laptop “missing?”
New revelations in The Philadelphia Inquirer hint that there may have been an innocent explanation for why the Lower Merion School District reportedly activated a webcam while the laptop was in the student’s home. On the same day that a court issued a temporary restraining order that bars the district from reactivating the remote security…
Fourth Amendment news–And the public, as usual, has not been paying attention
John Wesley Hall Jr. nails it: For a little over two weeks now, ever since the press got wind of an oral argument in the Third Circuit about a cell phone tracking information appeal by the government (see prior post: Fourth Amendment news–CA3 to hear argument on accessing cell phone location data), the blogosphere has…
EU privacy watchdog warns Commission on controversial ACTA negotiations
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx, who oversees the data protection practices of EU bodies and advises them on privacy policy, has said that those proposals that had been made public were worrying. He also condemned the fact that so little information about negotiations has been publicised. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a…