A controversial new law requiring telecoms companies to retain details of Germans’ communications for 10 weeks was passed on Friday with votes from 404 MPs. […] The law means that all telecommunications metadata – including computer addresses and phone numbers – will be saved for ten weeks, in a measure which the government claims will…
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California court okays lawsuit against mugshot posting website
Evan Brown writes: The Court of Appeal of California has held that defendant website operator – who posted arrestees’ mugshots and names, and generated revenue from advertisements using arrestees’ names and by accepting money to take the photos down – was not entitled to have the lawsuit against it dismissed. Defendant’s profiting from the photos…
Brazil’s Politicians Aim to Add Mandatory Real Names and a Right to Erase History to the Marco Civil
Danny O’Brien writes: The Marco Civil Da Internet, Brazil’s Internet bill of rights, was a unique achievement in modern law. Net users, academics, technologists, businesses and representatives of government all contributed to it in a lengthy consultation process, conducted using the very technology it was constructed to defend. Its scope and principles were publicly debated. Its…
UNLV senior pleads guilty in cyberstalking case linked to nude photos on Facebook
Jeff German reports: A 31-year-old college student pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday in what authorities said was a cyber-stalking scheme against his former girlfriend. During the 2013 scheme Jeffrey C. Granados unlawfully gained access to the woman’s Facebook page and posted nude photos of her, authorities said. Read more on Las Vegas Review-Journal.