Swedish broadband provider Ephone has said it will appeal a controversial court ruling obliging it to hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations. The Solna District Court ruled that Ephone will face 750,000 kronor ($95,000) in fines if it fails to comply with the order to hand over information…
Category: Online
CORRECTED: Anonymous web data can be personal data
The Register has a story on a fascinating legal analysis by Chris Pounder of Amberhawk Training (report here, pdf) as to how identifying yourself as being the individual associated with a particular IP address might be used to force companies such as Google and Yahoo to treat your data as being under the UK Data…
Irish bill requires telephone data retained 2 years
Ireland’s Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern TD, has published a Bill that will require the retention of all telephone and internet data for a minimum of two years to facilitate criminal investigations. The Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009 will enable a member of An Garda Síochána not below the rank of chief superintendent to instruct…
Berners-Lee: end snooping on web users
Senator Conroy, meet Sir Berners-Lee… Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for governments and companies to limit the amount they snoop on web users. Berners-Lee likened the web to a blank piece of paper, saying that governments and companies cannot not control what is written or drawn on the paper by people, so neither…