The Media Line posts: Israeli soldiers who served at one of the country’s most secretive bases have set up a group on the social networking site Facebook, in what has been called a serious security breach. The page allows veterans of the base to upload photos and videos of their shared experiences, and has attracted…
Category: Non-U.S.
Parliament gives green light for SWIFT II
The new version of the SWIFT anti-terrorist agreement on bank data transfers to the USA was approved by the European Parliament on Thursday. MEPs rejected the agreement in its previous form four months ago but since then have negotiated certain safeguards for Europe’s citizens and won an undertaking that the EU will start work in…
UK: Behavioural advertising is fair if users can opt out, says privacy watchdog
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its first code of practice for the gathering and processing of personal data online. It gives companies guidance on how to treat the information they gather when offering services on the internet. Some internet users and privacy groups have expressed concern about the increasingly common practice of tracking…
Legal proceedings against Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use Facebook
A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use the social networking site. Johannes Caspar said his Hamburg data protection office had initiated legal steps that could result in Facebook being fined tens of thousands of…