Sent to me by Brian Honan, The Pirate Bay’s response to Eircom’s three-strikes rule: Underneath the image, it says, “#failcom introduced orwellian laws. hide yourself.”
Category: Non-U.S.
Eircom to cut broadband over illegal downloads
John Collins reports: Eircom will from today begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally. Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of “graduated response” is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who…
Ca: Private information is being hacked
Dear MP and others: This is an extremely urgent message. Read the correspondence below. Your information is at grave risk, putting you, your home, your property and family in danger. Please contact your MP and others on this dangerous situation. As you all well know, the information has already been hacked numerous times as has…
Swiss want new rules to regulate firms like Google
Switzerland’s data protection chief said Sunday that the country needs new rules to regulate Internet services such as Google which could pose a problem to individuals’ privacy. “I believe that Internet services and applications that could endanger personal rights must be subject to a licensing procedure,” said Hanspeter Thuer, Swiss data protection commissioner, in an…