Lawyers for the Dutch crown prince argued in court Friday that The Associated Press violated his privacy by taking photographs of his family on a skiing holiday in Argentina. The AP photographs of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, his Argentine-born wife Maxima and their 4-year-old daughter Amalia on a slope were published July 30 in several Dutch…
More seek privacy from Google book search settlement
Concerns about Google Book Search and its potential effects on reader privacy are spreading widely in the wake of the joint action alert issued by EFF and the ACLU of Northern California. Copyright scholar Pam Samuelson recently investigated the scope of the settlement in an editorial titled “The Audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement,”…
WA private eyes get 6 months in ID theft
A Belfair couple who ran a private investigation firm have been sentenced to six months in prison and two years supervised release for using illegal methods to dig up dirt on people who were involved in court cases or litigation. Emilio and Brandy Torrella ran BNT Investigations, where workers posed as the people they were…
Overseeing Surveillance – Lessons from the UK Experience?
In a previous post I pointed out the remarkable lack of transparency in the oversight of surveillance in Ireland. This has become all the more worrying since July when the remit of this oversight system was extended (by the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009) beyond telephone tapping and data retention to include also the planting…