The Press Association reports that two people have been charged under the Data Protection Act following the leak of the British National Party membership list on the internet last year. The BBC adds that the two are a man aged 27 and a woman aged 30 and that they were arrested in Brinsley, Nottinghamshire: They…
Category: Online
A new study on privacy online in Israel
Calls to better safeguard users’ privacy online and improve protection of personal data on the Internet are commonplace. The concerns about privacy issues are sometimes coupled with demanding higher legal standards of protection pertaining to access and use of personal data obtained over the Internet by third parties, may they be the government and its…
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new feature in its API: the capability to optionally put geolocation data into tweets. Currently, geo-focused apps like Foursquare must hack location data into updates by linking them to web pages. Once Twitter lets developers embed geo into tweets themselves, a…
Google rivals will oppose book settlement
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition of nonprofit groups, individuals and library associations to oppose a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital copies of millions of books. The settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers, which is awaiting court approval, has attracted opposition from various…