The Dutch royals aren’t the only ones suing the media this month. TMZ reports that George Clooney is gearing up for a legal war in Italy — claiming invasive paparazzi climbed over the wall of his Italian home and shot a topless photo of a 13-year-old girl changing in one of his guest rooms. In…
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Dutch royals in privacy lawsuit against AP
Lawyers for the Dutch crown prince argued in court Friday that The Associated Press violated his privacy by taking photographs of his family on a skiing holiday in Argentina. The AP photographs of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, his Argentine-born wife Maxima and their 4-year-old daughter Amalia on a slope were published July 30 in several Dutch…
Overseeing Surveillance – Lessons from the UK Experience?
In a previous post I pointed out the remarkable lack of transparency in the oversight of surveillance in Ireland. This has become all the more worrying since July when the remit of this oversight system was extended (by the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009) beyond telephone tapping and data retention to include also the planting…
118 800 mobile phone directory still suspended
Controversial 118 800 mobile phone directory service is still unavailable a full month after announcing the temporary suspension of its service. The mobile phone directory service launched in mid-June but decided to suspend its website and phone-based service on 10 July. Speculation that the service was overwhelmed by the volume of traffic to its site…