An editorial at Out-Law.com written by Struan Robertson, editor: The fate of Europe’s cookie law became improbably entwined with a debate over file-sharing. To cut a long story short, it broke free. On 26th October, it was voted through by the Council of the EU. It cannot be stopped and awaits only the rubber-stamp formalities…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: Warren Young: Needless alarm over search and spy bill
Dr. Warren Young* writes: In an article on October 23, the Herald reported that the Search and Surveillance Bill before Parliament would give “sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers” to a web of state agencies. The bill arose from a Law Commission report that recommended comprehensive reform of search and…
The EU has its finger on the Internet privacy button, which threatens to turn out the lights on European web publishers
Jarvis Coffin, CEO & President of Burst Media writes: In case it has escaped anyone’s attention, the European Union is dangling the online advertising industry outside a window and threatening to drop it on its head over the issue of privacy (ClickZ, 11-06-09; Ad Age, 11-05-09.) Incited by bad behavior at Phorm and BT, which…
UK: Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours
A council is enlisting 2,000 resident spies to report anti-social behaviour by their neighbours, it emerged today. The recruits, described by town hall chiefs as ‘Neighbourhood Champions’, will pass on evidence of graffiti, fly-tipping, litter and excessive noise. They could even be trained to report child abuse, domestic violence, racial harassment and other ‘hate crimes’….