Sneaking into email accounts of spouses is illegal even if they include stories indicating his or her infidelity, a court ruled Thursday, putting privacy protection ahead of the right to know. The Seoul Eastern District Court slapped a 42-year-old woman with a 300,000 won fine for opening her husband’s emails without his approval. The court…
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UK: Privacy complaints against North-East titles rejected
HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk staff report: Press watchdogs have today rejected separate privacy complaints against two North-East newspapers. The first case arose after Newcastle’s Sunday Sun reported that a local radio presenter had been suspended after sending suggestive emails to a female listener, and published the text of emails subsequently sent between the pair. The radio presenter argued…
UK: E-commerce Regulations updated to exempt ISPs from hate speech charges
The Government has published Regulations that will absolve internet service providers (ISPs) and other digital service providers of responsibility for religion or sexuality-related hate speech transmitted over their networks. The E-Commerce Directive protects service providers from liability for material that they neither create nor monitor but simply store or pass on to users of their…
UK: Judge says extraditing Gary McKinnon may be unlawful
Afua Hirsch reports: The home secretary may have acted unlawfully by pursuing the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a high court judge said yesterday. Extraditing McKinnon, an Asperger’s sufferer who is facing a lengthy prison sentence in the US for breaching US military and Nasa computers, raises “stark and simple issues”, Mr Justice…