Ben Grubb reports: A mother’s fear that her 12-year-old daughter was being stalked by a paedophile on Facebook sparked an in-depth, almost month-long investigation involving the Australian Federal Police. But police have been left dumbfounded by the discovery that the person who harassed and sent pornographic images to the girl via the site was another…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: Police Ordered To Pay Half of Legal Costs For Breach Of Privacy
The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Human Rights Review Tribunal has ordered police to pay $3000 towards the legal costs of a man who pursued them for breach of privacy. In July the tribunal told the police to pay the 47 year-old man $6000 compensation for handing over a list of offences he had…
Anti-piracy law test case sent to EU Court
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. This issue concerns a case between five audiobook publishers and the Swedish ISP ePhone which appealed a lower court ruling ordering the firm to hand…
Privacy: a number’s game?
Peter Fleischer muses about why Europeans seem so focused on length of data retention rather than on what he sees as more important measures of privacy protection: ….. Curiously, the time dimension of data retention is almost entirely a Continental European privacy concern. It rarely registers as a meaningful vector in other countries, even in…