From New Magazine in the UK: Paris Hilton’s infamous sex tape is at the centre of a new lawsuit as porn bosses battle to keep the film away from illegal downloaders. The socialite hit headlines back in 2004 when a porn video called 1 Night in Paris surfaced on the internet. The film, which features…
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UK: Privacy watchdog urges stronger data protection in EU law review
Organisations which lose personal data should be forced to disclose the data security breach, the European Union’s privacy watchdog has said. Planned changes to EU privacy law do not go far enough, said the official. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has published an opinion urging the European Commission to extend the obligation…
Nesbitt awards woman $40K for privacy breach
Robert Todd reports: A British Columbia doctor has been forced to pay his ex-wife $40,000 for breach of privacy and defamation after accessing private information about her on an old home computer and publishing it online and in e-mails. The case, Nesbitt v. Neufeld, saw businesswoman Wendy Neufeld go after damages from her ex-husband, Patrick…
Sweden looks to ban pics taken by Peeping Toms
The Swedish government wants to make it illegal to take pictures of people in “private places” without their knowledge. In a memo from submitted on Monday, the Ministry of Justice wants to add “unauthorised photographing” to the Swedish criminal code. “What we’re trying to do is come up with laws that make it illegal to…