John Byrne of the Chicago Tribune updates us on the online defamation case covered here a few weeks ago. The case involves a Buffalo Grove, Illinois politician, Lisa Stone, who is seeking the name of someone who allegedly defamed her teenage son in online posts. Cook County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ordered the Daily Herald…
Behavioural advertising and customised pricing face OFT scrutiny
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will investigate whether behavioural advertising and individually-targeted prices on the internet violate the rights of UK consumers’. The Government body announced two investigations today which will probe whether online retailers’ use of tracking and targeting technology and advertising are unfair on consumers. “[An investigation] into online targeting of advertising…
Manchester Airport rethinks strip-scanner for kids
John Ozimek reports: Manchester Airport will be taking legal advice on proposals to send children through its new X-ray scanners. This is a change from its position, reported in The Register yesterday, that they did not believe the images created by the new scanning technology (the slightly unfortunately named Rapiscan) would fall foul of child…
UPDATE: Microsoft recovers ‘most, if not all’ Sidekick users’ data
Mary Jo Foley reports: On October 15, Microsoft reversed itself, claiming now that instead of losing all of the personal data of Sidekick users, it has recovered “most, if not all” of it. (Over the past few days, Microsoft has moved from saying all data was lost, to some, to possibly none.) From a note…