More on online tracking, this time from Julian Lee of The Age: The online behaviour of millions of Australians is to be tracked and auctioned to advertisers by a new generation of internet businesses setting up shop here. The world’s largest ”data exchange”, the Californian company BlueKai, boasts it already has the computer addresses and…
Category: Non-U.S.
Quebec spammer must pay Facebook $1 billion
Jason Magder reports: A Quebec man has been ordered forced to pay Facebook more than $1 billion in fines for spamming. The Quebec Superior Court issued a judgment last week upholding a ruling in a California court that ordered Montrealer Adam Guerbuez to pay $1,068,928,721,46 U.S., which includes punitive damages for each of the 4,366,386…
Cn: Chat Program Sparks Privacy Fears
A popular Chinese online chat service is believed to have scanned users’ personal information. A group of Chinese lawyers has said they will file a privacy lawsuit over one of China’s most popular online chat programs, following complaints that the service had scanned confidential information on users’ computers. The allegations were reported in the official…
UK: The right against self-incrimination is not a right to remain encrypted
A teenager has been jailed for 16 weeks after he refused to give police the password to his computer. Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation. Police seized his computer but could not access material on it as it had a 50-character encryption password. Drage was…