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…
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Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit China
Miguel Helft and John Markoff report: Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there. As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit…
Roman Polanski sues French media for invasion of privacy
Associated Press in Paris provides more on a lawsuit first covered here: The snapshot shows Roman Polanski standing at a window, his face narrowly visible between the curtains. The French paper that published the photograph said it was a legitimate depiction of the director’s life under house arrest in his Swiss Alpine chalet, but the…
New Chinese Tort Liability Law Contains Provisions Affecting Personal Data
Hunton & Williams provide more details on the newly passed Chinese tort law: Certain of its provisions relate, expressly or in a general sense, to personal information. These provisions can cause data users to incur liability to data subjects for the mishandling of personal information. In particular: The law (at Articles 2 and 6) states…