Asher Moses reports: He wants to censor the internet but what will Communications Minister Stephen Conroy do about a spoof website that uses his own name to protest against the Government’s internet filtering policy? A net prankster has taken advantage of Conroy’s failure to reserve his own domain name by registering stephenconroy.com.au and turning it…
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Lost Laptop is no more
It looks like The Inquirer‘s coverage of Lost Laptop may have resulted in the site/business being removed. David Neal updates us all: LOST LAPTOP, the, er, entrepreneurial website that we took to our hearts, is no more. We couldn’t quite believe the site’s premise when it launched. People who found laptops could send the unit…
Privacy challenge to data-storage law reaches German constitutional court
A controversial law forcing communications companies to keep records of customers’ phone and internet use for six months was to be scrutinised on Tuesday by the constitutional court after 34,000 people lodged appeals against the law. Germany’s highest court, based in Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, was to examine 60 separate legal questions regarding…
Ie: Supreme Court rules against woman in frozen embryo case
The Supreme Court has today unanimously ruled a woman cannot have three frozen embryos implanted against the wishes of her estranged husband. The five-judge court has also found that the embryos are not protected as ‘the unborn’ under the Constitution. The three frozen embryos have been stored in the Sims fertility clinic in Dublin since…