Sofia Fontanals and Samara Schaar write: On 15th October 2015 the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its first ruling[1] on the so-called digital “right to be forgotten” in which it states that harmful information affecting individuals without public relevance should not be accessible to Internet search engines when the news has lost relevance over time. The…
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Data mining Instagram feeds can point to teenage drinking patterns
From the University of Rochester: Instagram could offer a novel way of monitoring the drinking habits of teenagers. Using photos and text from Instagram, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester has shown that this data can not only expose patterns of underage drinking more cheaply and faster than conventional surveys, but also…
James Woods Not Allowed To Find Out Name Of Guy Who Called Him A Cocaine Addict On Twitter
From the sometimes-the-courts-get-it-right dept Mike Masnick writes: Over the summer, we wrote about a positively ridiculous lawsuit filed by the actor James Woods, who apparently took offense to an obviously hyperbolic tweet, calling him a “cocaine addict.” Woods felt that such a joke tweet deserved a $10 million lawsuit. The anonymous Twitter user hooked up with…
Mexicans come up with “World’s Worst” internet law
It takes a lot to qualify as the “world’s worst” internet law, but Nick Farrell thinks Mexico has a serious contender” One of the dafter laws in internet history is going before the Mexican senate in a desperate bid to curb computer crime. Typically laws drafted by politicians to deal with computer crime are based on a complete…