Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that broadband provider ePhone is obligated to hand over customer data to five audio book publishers. The ruling, which overturned an appeals court decision, means the first legal challenge under Sweden’s new anti-piracy law has ended in favour of copyright holders. The decision prohibits ePhone from destroying information about…
Fordham Law Study: Privacy of Nation’s School Children at Risk
Fordham Law’s Center on Law and Information Privacy released a study that found state educational databases across the country ignore key privacy protections for the nation’s K – 12 children. The findings come as Congress is considering legislation that would expand and integrate the 43 existing state databases without taking into account the critical privacy…
Memorializing the dead on Facebook
Barbara Ortutay of Associated Press set off a new round of news stories on Facebook’s “memorializing” of profiles of deceased members with her report yesterday. But Facebook’s “memorializing” isn’t new. The company has been doing that since the beginning of the year. What’s new, perhaps, is that Facebook’s new “Reconnect” tool applied to memorialized profiles…
UK councils get ‘Al Capone’ power to seize assets over minor offenses
Sean O’Neill reports: Draconian police powers designed to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against the public, The Times has learnt. The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators employed…