The Swedish government has ignored the advice of Sweden’s Council on Legislation (Lagrådet) and proposed the introduction of drug tests on children below the age of 15. “Early intervention against young abusers is absolutely crucial,” said Beatrice Ask, Sweden’s justice minister. In a previous ruling, the council weighed the invasion of personal integrity occasioned by…
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Pirate Bay legal action dropped in Norway
Mikael Ricknäs reports: Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway’s performing rights society TONO and by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Norway (IFPI Norge) Norway have lost…
Ads nauseam: The battle to save UK privacy online
Peter Kirwan writes about the the impact of privacy activists on online advertising in the UK: The passion of privacy activists and the frustration of Phorm tells us that we’re on a frontier, where new rights and limits are being defined and re-defined. It was much the same with property rights in the late Middle…
Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing report: Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the…