The UKPA reports: The European Commission is taking the UK to court for breaking EU rules on safeguarding internet privacy. The move follows complaints to the Commission from British internet users that they have been targeted by advertisers based on an analysis of their “internet traffic”. A Commission statement said it first launched legal proceedings…
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Bruce Schneier: Web snooping is a dangerous move
Bruce Schneier comments on the government’s intention to seek greater surveillance capabilities: On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies are changing, the administration argues, and modern digital systems aren’t as easy to monitor as traditional telephones. The government…
Can You Be Forced to Turn Over Your Social Network Passwords in a Civil Case?
Bruce Boyden comments on Romano v. Steelcase, reported previously on this site (here) Let’s say you’re the plaintiff in a civil case against a neighbor, an employer, or a company you’ve done business with. And let’s say that you have a Facebook account. The other side believes that some of your Facebook communications might be…
UK case law: DFT v TFD and “super-injunctions”
On Monday 27 September 2010, Mrs Justice Sharp handed down an important judgment in a privacy case which had previously been the subject of a so-called “super injunction”. The judgment in the case of DFT v TFD ([2010] EWHC 2335 (QB)) concerned a blackmail case in which a woman was threatening to make public private and…