Dominic Ponsford of Press Gazette reports: The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint from Patricia Hewitt MP over an article in the Sun about her son Nicholas Birtles being charged with possession of cocaine. She claimed that it breached her son’s privacy (clause three of the Editors’ Code) and that it unnecessarily referred to…
Nebraska high court to hear new appeal in e-mail case
The Associated Press reports: The Nebraska Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether profanity-laced e-mails sent to a college professor who was a candidate for political office were criminal in nature or protected free speech. Darren Drahota was convicted of disturbing the peace and fined $250 for e-mails he sent in 2006 to former…
German authorities concerned about Google Analytics’ data protection compliance, says report
German data protection authorities are investigating whether Google’s web traffic measurement system Google Analytics routinely infringes privacy laws, according to a German newspaper report. Zeit reports that several regional authorities, as well as the national Federal Data Protection Commissioner, are investigating whether the use of the system is a breach of web users’ privacy rights…
Ad trade body urges ‘non-disruptive’ interpretation of cookie law
A trade body representing advertisers has called on European countries not to implement new EU cookie laws in ways that would “disrupt” use of the internet. The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which claims to represent the companies behind 90% of the world’ advertising spending, has warned that new EU laws on websites’ use of…