Sarah Schmidt reports: The clock has run out on Facebook to revamp its privacy rules to avoid a public showdown with Canada’s privacy czar over how it protects the personal information of its 500 million users worldwide. After announcing in July 2009 that the social media giant was operating outside of Canada’s private-sector privacy law,…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Mentally ill offenders get GPS ankle tag
Mark Gould reports: Violent mentally ill patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, are being fitted with satellite tracking devices to stop them escaping and re-offending. More than 60 medium and high-risk patients detained at the Bethlem Royal Hospital have been fitted with a locked ankle bracelet containing a global positioning system as a condition of…
German IT consultant threatens to publish blocked Google Street View images
Jeremy Kirk reports: IT consultant Jens Best is preparing to upend the debate over Google’s Street View mapping program, which has run into fierce criticism from data protection officials. Google launched an online tool this week that lets people living in some 20 cities where Street View is due to launch later this year to…
UK: TalkTalk defends monitoring while critics claim it violates law
Dean Wilson reports more on the controversy concerning TalkTalk: TalkTalk has today issued a statement defending its recent action of spying on customers, reiterating its assertion that its website tracker is only part of its anti-malware program, not an attempt to invade users’ privacy. It said that its approach is designed to make the internet…