Nicky Phillips reports: Politicians are letting foreign-owned companies covertly gather information about voters. The websites of Barry O’Farrell, Kristina Keneally, Tony Abbott and the Greens plant spying devices on visitors’ computers, which can track them as they browse the internet. […] The websites of Ms Keneally, Mr Abbott and the Greens also planted flash cookies…
Category: Non-U.S.
Digitally desecrating Germany’s landscape
Jeff Jarvis writes: Street View is online in Germany and it includes – or rather, excludes – 244,000 addresses that Germans have demanded be pixelated. They have, in their word, demanded their Verpixelungsrecht. It is more offensive than I had imagined, a desecration of the public demanded and abetted by German politicians and media on a supposed…
AU: Google must return wifi data: Privacy lobby
James Riley reports: The Australian Privacy Foundation is still seeking confirmation that the personal information of local citizens collected by Google Australia through its StreetView cars is being stored in Australia. The organisation says if the personal data – including whole emails, bank account details and passwords – has been moved offshore it should be…
UK: JIH v News Group – Removing Anonymity in Privacy Cases
Inforrm’s Blog has more about a case previously noted on this site. Mark Thomson writes: On 5 November 2010 Mr Justice Tugendhat handed down judgment in JIH v News Group Newspapers ([2010] EWHC 2818 (QB)) another privacy injunction case about anonymity. Following his recent decision in Gray v UVW ([2010] EWHC 2367 (QB)), he again decided that,…