West Midlands Police said it has removed all covert “spy” cameras installed in areas of Birmingham with a large Muslim population. More than 200 – covert and overt – were put up earlier this year, paid for with government money to tackle terrorism. An independent report into their installation said public consultation was “too little…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Fingerprinting gamblers is ‘one option’: Gillard
The Australian government seems to be investing a lot of time and energy into figuring out what to do about problem gamblers as a quick glance at Gambling Research Australia and an article on pre-commitment systems indicate. It’s one thing to try to help people who may have a problem or addiction. It’s another to…
Oui, Defamation Can be Automatic
Marie-Andrée – who unlike this blogger can actually speak French and is a lawyer to boot – provides a commentary and explanation of a recent French court ruling that Eric Schmidt was guilty of defamation because of Google Suggest results. She writes, in part: The Court noted that “algorithms or software solutions proceed from the…
EU takes UK to court over internet privacy
The UKPA reports: The European Commission is taking the UK to court for breaking EU rules on safeguarding internet privacy. The move follows complaints to the Commission from British internet users that they have been targeted by advertisers based on an analysis of their “internet traffic”. A Commission statement said it first launched legal proceedings…