Stefan writes: India’s Home Ministry has told the country’s operators that they need to start storing each and every text message that goes through their network for a period of 6 months. For a country that regularly sends between 130 and 150 billion texts a month, this new government requirement is going to require a huge…
Category: Non-U.S.
Facebook in hot water with Germany again
German ministers criticised social networking site Facebook on Sunday for failing to respect privacy, following a report of a serious flaw that allowed non-subscribers access to private data. German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reported that a glitch potentially allowed anyone access to the contact lists of subscribers. New subscribers to Facebook are required to enter their…
Many Germans Opt Out of Google’s Street View
Kevin J. O’Brien reports: Google on Friday said that it remained on course to begin its Street View mapping service in Germany this year despite the thousands of people who have asked the company to delete their properties. “The number of requests will not have an effect on our plans to launch Street View this…
Pirates’ lawyers end trial with ‘Facebook defense’
Defence lawyers for the three founders and a financier of Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay warned on Friday of the consequences for popular websites like Facebook and Twitter if their clients’ guilty verdict isn’t overturned. […] Neij’s lawyer Jonas Nilsson insisted Friday that if the appeals court confirmed the guilty verdict for his…