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…
Berlusconi sues local, foreign media for libel
Reuters reports: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday. His lawyer Niccolo Ghedini told Reuters that he and his colleagues abroad had already filed lawsuits against newspapers in…