Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will report to Parliament later this year on the degree to which UK citizens are put under surveillance. The study will be a follow up to a previous ICO report which said that citizens were at risk from growing pressure in Government to share information between departments and…
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Google Warned by EU Over Street View Map Photos
It has not been the best of months for Google in Europe. Both Finland and Germany raised concerns over Street View, it faces anti-trust suits, and three executives were convicted in Italy of privacy invasion. Now the Associated Press reports: European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends…
UK: Mosley case on privacy laws ‘is being fast-tracked’
Kevin Rawlinson reports: It could spell the end of the kiss and tell: public figures might, within 18 months, have the power to stifle bad news stories before they are published, a senior lawyer has warned. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is currently fast-tracking a landmark case, brought by Max Mosley, to tighten…
AU: Cyber poison-penner hunted down and sued
Today’s news includes a case in Australia involving unmasking anonymous online posters and successfully suing them for defamation. Tony Wright describes the background of the case: The action against Graeme Gladman began after highly uncomplimentary comments appeared last November under pseudonyms on the HotCopper website, a stockmarket forum. The postings related to technology security company…