Noam Cohen of the New York Times reports: A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: Services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game. But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually…
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Ie: Analysis of the new Data Retention Act
T.J. McIntyre writes: Ronan Lupton (barrister and also chair of Irish telecom industry body ALTO) has written a particularly useful and well informed analysis of the impact of the new Data Retention Act on Irish law and has been kind enough to allow me to mirror it here. Read his analysis of the Communications (Retention of…
EP demands personal data protection in US WikiLeaks investigation
On 23 March MEPs asked the Commission and the Council about the implications for EU citizens of a US court order obliging Twitter to hand over personal data, messages and communications of users considered to be related to WikiLeaks. What personal data protection rights do EU-based Twitter users have in such cases? Read more on…
AdChoice Buttons from Yahoo are not Privacy Choice Buttons
Last week, I posted an item about how Yahoo was going to show UK web surfers how sites were using their data, and I commented, “Good for Yahoo.” Perhaps I engaged in Premature Congratulatory Disorder (henceforth, PCD). Monique Altheim has a commentary on Yahoo’s new tool that’s important to note: A few days ago, PCWorld…