Google will comply with an expected Swiss court ruling into whether its Street View web service fails to protect people’s privacy by showing their faces and licence plates, the company and Swiss authorities said. The company is accused of failing to obscure such sensitive images from its photo mapping application sufficiently and setting cameras at…
Category: Non-U.S.
The Netherlands promises transparancy regarding wiretapping
Ot van Daalen writes: The Dutch Minister of Justice promised on 26 November 2009 at the request of the Dutch Parliament to provide more transparency regarding wiretapping. The Dutch government is placing relatively many taps on a per-capita basis, compared to other countries. During a debate in the Parliament, members of Parliament voiced their concerns…
Spoof Conroy website protests at internet filter plan
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…
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…