A controversial law firm that sent letters to alleged illegal file sharers has been told it cannot drop its cases to “avoid public scrutiny”. ACS:Law contacted thousands of people accusing them of illegally downloading movies and songs and demanding payments of £500 to avoid court action. […] The concerns stepped up last month when the…
Category: Non-U.S.
Spain heads list of personal data abuse on the internet
I found this item in The Reader interesting in light of Spain’s lawsuit against Google over privacy: Spain is statistically the country with the most incidences of abuse of personal information on the internet, along with Bulgaria, confirms research by Eurostat. Data such as users’ names, postal and email addresses, and videos uploaded have been…
Guess What? Your Tweets Aren’t Private Unless They’re Private
If you’ve been protecting your tweets to keep them restricted to a small select following, your tweets as not as private as you may hope. But most of you probably knew that already, right? Robert Andrews reports: The UK newspaper business, via its self-regulator the Press Complaints Commission, has effectively raised the middle finger to…
Govt defers Data Protection Bill
Shaliza Hassanali reports: Opposition members prevailed on the Government on Friday to suspend consideration of the Data Protection Bill, claiming there were too many flaws. The suspension came at committee stage in Parliament, as both sides sought to amend the bill’s clauses which seek to provide protection of individuals’ privacy. During his contribution to the…