Declan McCullagh reports that Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting…
Swedish police to publicly identify suspects
Police in Skåne in southern Sweden will shortly begin publishing pictures of criminal suspects on the police website, a practice that may soon be adopted all over the country. The pictures will be taken from surveillance cameras and the police hope that the general public will help investigate and identify criminals. […] Anne Ramberg, general…
Dutch royals win privacy case against AP
As reported two weeks ago, the Dutch royals sued the AP alleging invasion of privacy for taking pictures of the royals while on vacation. Now the AP reports that a court has ruled in favor of the Dutch royal family. Although the AP had argued that the pictures were taken of public figures in a…
Privacy missing from Google Books settlement
If Google digitizes the world’s books, how will it keep track of what you read? That’s one of the unanswered questions that librarians and privacy experts are grappling with as Google attempts to settle a long-running lawsuit by publishers and copyright holders and move ahead with its effort to digitize millions of books, known as…