Josh Halliday reports: The publisher of the Sunday Mirror has lost its bid to overturn a privacy action brought in the French courts by the actor Olivier Martinez. Martinez successfully sued Sunday Mirror publisher Mirror Group in 2008 over an online article about his relationship with the pop star Kylie Minogue. The British publisher took its…
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Facebook to give German state privacy exemption
Facebook has offered a special exemption from its data handling practices to Schleswig-Holstein after the northern German state’s data protection commissioner complained about the online social network’s popular “like” button. Thilo Weichert, who leads the state’s data protection efforts, said in August that the site’s “like” button violated German privacy laws because it allowed Facebook…
When a government spies on its people: German spyware scandal; second version of spyware reported
The use of spyware by the government is fast becoming THE surveillance scandal of the year. In typical fashion, however, rather than deal with the substantive issues its use raises, there are those who would shoot the messenger or whistleblower. Cyrus Farivar reports: On Tuesday, a pair of German researchers working for Kaspersky Labs, a…
Twitter chief: We will protect our users from Government
Emma Barnett reports: Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief, has stood by the company’s decision not to suspend the service during the UK riots or disclose user identities to authorities. Speaking at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Costolo referred specifically to the UK riots when talking about the need to ensure Twitter remains a…