Street View has raised privacy concerns wherever it has launched but the UK’s privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that Google’s privacy protections are good enough to protect people’s privacy. A committee of all 27 EU member states’ privacy regulators, the Article 29 Working Party, has asked Google to ensure, though, that…
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Analysis: UK bloggers can no longer be sure on anonymity
Thousands of bloggers churn out opinions daily – secure in the protection afforded to them by the cloak of anonymity. From today they can no longer be secure that their identity can be kept secret, after a landmark ruling by Mr Justice Eady. The judge who has become synonymous with creating a law of privacy…
Tagged e-mails grab your address book
As a child, the main point of playing tag was to avoid being tagged. Many people are learning lately that the same thing applies to Tagged.com, a social networking Web site that has made the experience of being tagged anything but fun. The site has been around since 2004 and boasts 70 million members to…
AU: iiNet ordered to hand over customer records
Internet service provider iiNet has been ordered by Australia’s Federal Court to hand over a sample of twenty customer records, to be used as evidence in a landmark copyright case. At the close of the directions motions hearing today, both iiNet and film industry group AFACT (The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) could lay claim…