From WikiLeaks.org: This file presents a draft law for internet and telephony spying from the Swedish department of justice. The document was mentioned, but not released, by Svenska Dagbladet on Dec 12, 2009 [1]. The legislation is aimed at giving Swedish police and domestic intelligence the power to automatically intercept internet traffic that passes through…
Category: Non-U.S.
Google Faces a Different World in Italy
Eric Pfanner reports on the trial of four Google executives in Milan. They have been charged criminally in conjunction with a video that appeared on Google Video that showed a disabled student being set upon by four teens who actually taped and uploaded the video. Google executives have been charged with privacy invasion as well…
AU: Human rights? Sorry, we’d rather strip-search children
Chris Berg writes in The Age: What’s the point of having a charter of human rights if it just gets ignored? The Summary Offences and Control of Weapons Acts Amendment 2009 is burrowing its way through State Parliament at the moment. Designed to tackle ”knife violence”, this bill will give police an extraordinary new array…
Tiger Woods’s UK court injunction ignored by non-UK media
I’ve blogged a few times about how non-U.S. injunctions are ignored in the U.S. Here’s another example: although U.K. High Court Justice David Eady issued an injunction barring unnamed parties X and Y in the U.K. from publishing nude photos of Tiger Woods — and from even revealing any information on the order itself —…