I don’t know U.K. privacy laws, but I have to wonder about a news story I saw on an Australian publication, The Age, and the reaction of The Age‘s online commenters. As background, it seems a teenager in Greater Manchester was fired via Facebook posting by her supervisor at the Cookies coffee shop in Leigh…
Category: Non-U.S.
Facebook, Google’s game of online tag draws scrutiny of European privacy watchdogs
Frank Jordans of the Associated Press reports: You have been tagged in 12 photos. Even if you’re not signed up to the Web site. European regulators are investigating whether the practice of posting photos, videos and other information about people on sites such as Facebook without their consent is a breach of privacy laws. The…
Dutch prosecutors stop tapping lawyers’ phones
Jan Meeus and Merel Thie report: What do a miracle doctor, a shrink, a lawyer and an imam have in common? Their professions are all on a list of words compiled by the Dutch public prosecutor for what is its biggest inquiry ever. All over the Netherlands, millions of transcripts of phone taps are currently…
“Brother Sharp” had private life exposed online
This story, from the China Daily, about how a private individual with mental health issues became the focus of Internet and media scrutiny, and how the writer feels about the intrusion into privacy: We have all seen the power of the “cyber manhunt”, and how dramatically people’s lives can be changed when they are caught…