Renai LeMay reports: Federal Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim wouldn’t disclose the details of any discussions his office had had with the Attorney-General’s Department over its controversial data retention proposal, under questioning on the matter in a Senate enquiry into online privacy today. The Senate’s Environment and Communications References Committee is holding an enquiry into online…
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Students accused of secretly recording Tyler Clementi withdraw from Rutgers after tragedy
Kelly Heyboer and Amy Ellis Nutt report: One of the two students accused of secretly using a webcam to watch Tyler Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man has withdrawn from the university — but she hopes to eventually return to classes, friends said. Molly Wei, 18, e-mailed professors to get assignments and continued…
AU: Google quizzed over privacy laws
A Labor senator has likened Google’s approach to privacy laws as similar to the exploitation of sweatshop workers across Asia. Google representatives today fronted the Senate Communications References Committee, which is examining whether Australians are given adequate protections when they go online. Spokesman Iarla Flynn was explaining to senators that the internet giant abides by…
A Google Map of Google Maps’ Legal Troubles
Austin Carr writes: Italian officials today launched a probe into Google, which has been accused of collecting mounds of personal information through unsecured Wi-Fi networks with its Street View cars. This is just the latest in a long line of governments looking into the matter, from Australia to Germany to South Korea. We’ve found it…