Jacqui Cheng reports: We’re all guilty of skipping over a site’s terms and conditions, but don’t go crying to the courts if there’s something in there that comes back to bite you. Another court has upheld a site’s “browserwrapped” terms of use, saying that they were displayed prominently enough that it’s the user’s fault for…
UK: Businessman is arrested in front of wife and son… for ‘anti-gipsy’ email that he didn’t even write
James Millbank reports: A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written. The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the ‘do as you likey’ attitude…
Pirate Party protests ‘naked’ scanners in their underpants
Scantily clad Pirate Party supporters demonstrated over the weekend at several German airports to show their opposition to controversial “naked” scanners planned for security checks. Despite the frigid temperatures outside, the protesters assembled nearly naked groups at airports in Berlin, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf on Sunday afternoon. The participants stripped down to their underpants, marching behinds…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
Marshall Kirkpatrick writes: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December. In a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Zuckerberg spent…