I’m not really a drinker, but can you imagine being legally barred from ordering an alcoholic beverage in a public place or even going into any bar in this country for two years? Such seems to be the case in the U.K. The BBC reports: A 20-year-old woman is thought to be the first person…
Category: Non-U.S.
To tweet or to delete?
Peter Fleischer blogs: How would you resolve the conflict between the cultural imperative to archive human knowledge and the privacy imperative to delete some of it? To put this in perspective, compare the approaches of the US Library of Congress and the French Senate. As reported by The New York Times, the “the Library of…
Halifax court orders newspaper to cough up names of anonymous commentators
A Nova Scotia judge has ordered a newspaper and Google Inc. to cough up whatever details they possess about the identities of people who posted comments anonymously about Halifax’s top firefighters. Halifax fire Chief Bill Mosher and Deputy Chief Stephen Thurber are considering a lawsuit against people who posted critical comments about them on the…
CAPAPA’s 2010 Salary Survey
I don’t normally post surveys to PogoWasRight.org, but there really should be some perks for contributing to this site, so when CAPAPA, who have sent me a number of links and news items for this site, asked me to post an invitation to participate in their salary survey, I’m happy to do so: CAPAPA’s 2010…