Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website. […] The Appeals Court (Hovrätten) on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling forcing TeliaSonera to hand over to…
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NASA hacker McKinnon’s extradition halted for review
David Meyer reports: New home secretary Theresa May has paused Gary McKinnon’s extradition proceedings so she can fully consider the issues in his case. May has applied for a judicial review hearing, scheduled for Tuesday next week, to be adjourned, the Home Office said on Thursday. The hearing had been arranged to consider whether May’s…
UK data watchdog calls on Google to delete Wi-Fi data
Rosalie Marshall reports: UK privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has asked Google to delete the private Wi-Fi data it has collected from homes and businesses. Google admitted last week that it is holding the so-called ‘pay-load’ data, which includes Wi-Fi network names, MAC addresses and samples of information sent over networks. […] The…
UK’s secret surveillance regime does not breach human rights, rules ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a claim that the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) violates the human right to a private life. The UK’s rules and safeguards on covert surveillance are proportionate, said the court. The case concerned Malcolm Kennedy, a London businessman who was arrested for drunkenness in December…