Jonathan Ansfield reports: News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past. Until recently, users could weigh in on news items on many…
Category: Non-U.S.
In wake of wrist slap, ICO calls for tighter data abuse laws
A UK judge’s frustration that he could only fine a data leaker has the Information Commissioner calling for tighter laws…. Laws should be tightened to give judges the option to jail people found guilty of serious abuses of personal data, the UK’s Information Commissioner has said. Christopher Graham said penalties under the Data Protection Act…
In Canada, library net filter controversy heats up
Jonathan Sher reports: Just why Internet filters at London public libraries were scrapped became murkier yesterday after key supporters of their removal challenged explanations by the chair of the city’s library board. Board chair David Winninger, also a member of city council, had said the board was prompted to investigate the removal of the filters…
McDonald’s manager: “I am, very, like remorseful” for taking nude workmate’s pic
No, this is not the case out of Arkansas involving McDonald’s and a cell phone, but another case, this out in Australia. ANI reports: Amanda Jane Murison, 21, of Runcorn in Brisbane’s south, was at a fast-food conference at a Hamilton Island resort in August last year, and she was sharing a room with a…