The founders of The Pirate Bay have been hit a with new order to remove links to copyright material. A Dutch court has ordered them to to remove all links to the material of a group of Netherlands-based music and film makers. The trio could face fines of up to $9m (£5.5m) if they do…
Category: Non-U.S.
Deutsche Bahn fined 1.12 million euros for data protection breach
Germany’s rail carrier Deutsche Bahn was fined a record 1.12 million euros (1.7 million dollars) on Friday, for breaching data protection laws. Earlier this year, it emerged that the rail operator had been accessing confidential staff data including emails and bank accounts for more than a decade, in attempts to fight possible corruption. The head…
Online advertising is threatened by Europe’s cookie law
Struan Robertson of Out-Law.com has an editorial piece on how the fate of online advertising cookies in the UK is tied to a file-sharing bill that has as yet to be resolved: Visitors to websites in Europe may soon face a barrage of pop-ups that seek their consent to internet cookies. Bizarrely, the plan to…
Who’d release private tax data? A Norwegian would
Ian MacDougall of Associated Press reports: It’s the moment nosy Norwegian neighbors have been waiting for — the release of official records showing the annual income and overall wealth of nearly every taxpayer in the Scandinavian country. In a move that would be unthinkable elsewhere, tax authorities in Norway have issued the “skatteliste,” or “tax…