A blog owner can avoid liability for user-generated content that appears on his site without being checked or moderated, the High Court has ruled. But fixing the spelling or grammar in users’ posts could lose him that protection, it said. The Court ruled that the operator of blogging site Labourhome.org could not have a libel…
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Hello! pays Jude Law privacy damages
Mark Sweney reports: Jude Law has settled a breach of privacy action with Hello! magazine, with the magazine agreeing to pay £9,500 in damages and undertaking not to publish any pictures of the Alfie star with his children until they are 18. Law launched a legal action against the celebrity weekly for breach of privacy…
European Body Moves on Privacy Front
James Kanter reports: The European Commission is seeking the right for its citizens to sue in American courts if they believe that airline passenger data transmitted to the United States has been misused — part of a new bid to make protecting privacy compatible with fighting terror. At a meeting Thursday and Friday in Madrid,…
New Report Offers Insight on How the British Public Views Personal Data Use
Demos, an independent UK-based think tank, has published a report describing the views of a cross-section of British people on how their personal data are used by the public and private sectors. Private Lives: A People’s Inquiry Into Personal Information (the “Report”) was researched in the context of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s consultation on…