Philip Willan reports: Both sides claimed victory Monday after a Rome judge took a minimalist view of the responsibilities of telecom carriers for stamping out online piracy in a court battle pitting copyright defenders against Internet distributors and privacy interests. Judge Antonella Izzo rejected a request from the Audiovisual Antipiracy Federation (FAPAV) that Telecom Italia…
Category: Non-U.S.
Journalists Arrested for Breach of Privacy in Connection to Gay Indian Professor’s Death
Ryan Prado reports: 2 journalists have been arrested in the Indian city of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh for breach of privacy after they filmed gay Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) teacher S.R. Siras having consensual sex with a rickshaw puller in his campus home. Sira was found dead last month under mysterious circumstances. Adil and Siraj, journalists…
Gun registry privacy not violated, says watch dog
Janice Tibbetts reports: The RCMP did not violate the privacy rights of gun owners by giving their names, phones numbers and firearms information to a private pollster to conduct a survey about feelings on the controversial gun registry, says the federal privacy commissioner. Jennifer Stoddart dismissed a complaint from former public safety minister Peter Van…
Korean Curfew Imposed on Juvenile Gamers Uses National ID Number
Justin Kwong writes: The government of Korea announced last week that it would seek to cut off or dramatically slow young gamers’ Internet access between Midnight and 8:00 AM in an effort to cut down on incidents of addiction and other harms associated with extended MMO sessions. This news quickly made headlines around the world…