Caitlin McBride and Melanie Finn report: The Vodafone employee responsible for hacking into the phones of Louis Walsh and Glenda Gilson has been sacked, it has been revealed. The company confirmed last night that they fired the individual responsible for hacking into the voicemails of the TV stars after an internal inquiry and the involvement…
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Cn:New Rule Guards Minors’ Privacy in Chongqing
Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality has banned parents from breaking their children’s privacy, including internet chat records and text messages, the Chongqing Evening News reports. The regulation on the protection of minors was adopted by the municipal legislature on Friday and will go into effect on September 1, when the new semester begins. No institution or…
Retail wall of shame aims to tame shoplifting
Clare Mellor reports on what may indicate a trend in North America: posting suspected shoplifters’ pictures in stores and banning them — despite the fact that they have never been charged criminally. I posted a story like this from New York last month and now there’s one out of Nova Scotia: A couple of Dartmouth…
No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop ‘premature unnecessary debate’
Ben Grubb reports from Australia: The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians’ web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause “premature unnecessary debate”. The government has been consulting with the internet industry over…