Nick Goodway reports: Nighthawk Energy today said it had unmasked online investment chatroom users who targeted it with “persistent defamatory and untrue postings”. The AIM-listed oil company went to court to force the websites advfn.com and iii.co.uk to reveal the identities of anonymous message posters. Following a ruling in the High Court, Nighthawk said: “Both…
Category: Non-U.S.
A deal to avert BlackBerry ban could set precedent
Abdullah Al-Shihri reports: A preliminary agreement between the maker of the popular BlackBerry smart phone and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which government officials say grants them some access to users’ data, will avert a ban on the phone in that country. The pact involves placing a BlackBerry server inside Saudi Arabia, Saudi telecom regulatory…
IN: In the service of privacy
A scandal in India involving Swami Nithyananda leads in to discussion of privacy law in India. From an article by Shamnad Basheer, a professor in intellectual property law at the National University of Juridical Sciences: One might argue that Indian law only recognises a right to privacy within the meaning of Article 21 of the…
UK: MSP accused over letters to pupils
At first blush, this report from the UKPA in the Kilmarnock Standard sounded like data protection possibly run amok: A Government minister has called on Labour’s Karen Whitefield to resign from Holyrood’s Education Committee after accusing her of breaching data protection rules by writing to schoolchildren. The MSP sent letters of congratulations to primary seven…