Out-Law.com has more on the recent ruling in London that seemed to buck a trend of granting the rich and famous super-injunctions to protect their privacy from media exposure: The High Court’s refusal to issue an injunction preventing the media from reporting an alleged affair footballer John Terry had with a team mate’s girlfriend is…
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AU: Attorney-General cracks down on ‘sewer’ internet election comment
Michael McGuire reports: South Australia has become one of the few states in the world to restrict the internet under laws created by Attorney-General Michael Atkinson. AdelaideNow reports the new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month’s state election, to publish their real…
AU: CommSec pays $55k after breaching Spam Act
Munir Kotadia reports: CommSec, the Commonwealth Bank’s stock trading arm, has agreed to pay a $55,000 to The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) after breaching the Spam Act during 2009. According to ACMA, CommSec customers complained that they had continued to receive commercial messages despite having withdrawn their consent. The watchdog “also identified that…
New EU laws to target Facebook
Leigh Phillips reports: Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of social networking site Facebook, told the world to just get over it – no one cares about privacy anymore, provoking a storm of protest across cyberspace. On Thursday (28 January), the European Commission responded to the 24-year-old billionaire and announced plans for comprehensive new…