The ruling Kuomintang wants to delay the third reading of a new privacy protection act after fears it could lead to restrictions of press freedoms, reports said Thursday. The Legislative Yuan was scheduled to pass the third reading of the law on Friday, forcing media to ask people for approval before publishing personal data about…
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Privacy chiefs keep watch over Facebook
Sangeeta Shastry reports: Over the past six years, social networking has been the Internet’s stand-out phenomenon, linking up more than one billion people eager to exchange videos, pictures or last-minute birthday wishes. […] In Facebook’s case, the social networking tsunami has spread in barely six years from the Harvard dorm room of founder Mark Zuckerberg,…
Draft of ACTA released
The draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was released yesterday, and there’s a lot of buzz because it does not contain a “three-strikes” rule for those who illegally download copyrighted material. Here are some links to some of the coverage and commentary: Rashmi Rangnath, staff attorney for Public Knowledge, provides an analysis and commentary,…
UK: Sex offenders win right to challenge lifetime place on sex offenders register
Richard Ford reports: Two sex offenders today won the right to challenge their lifetime inclusion on the sex offender register after complaining that it breached their human rights. The ruling in the Supreme Court opens the way for hundreds of other sex offenders placed on the register for life to seek to have their details…