Michael Arrington of TechCrunch discusses the dilemma they grappled with when they received a zip file from “Hacker Croll” containing hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees. There is clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren’t going to…
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CORRECTED: Anonymous web data can be personal data
The Register has a story on a fascinating legal analysis by Chris Pounder of Amberhawk Training (report here, pdf) as to how identifying yourself as being the individual associated with a particular IP address might be used to force companies such as Google and Yahoo to treat your data as being under the UK Data…
Irish bill requires telephone data retained 2 years
Ireland’s Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern TD, has published a Bill that will require the retention of all telephone and internet data for a minimum of two years to facilitate criminal investigations. The Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009 will enable a member of An Garda Síochána not below the rank of chief superintendent to instruct…
Opt-out requests crash mobile directory
Controversial new mobile phone directory service 118800.co.uk has crashed, after thousands of users flocked online to remove their numbers from the site, according to reports. The site, which launched last month, now displays holding page which reads “service suspended while we make improvements”. Read more on v3.co.uk. The service, which has generated a lot of…