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Argentina overturns previous ruling that had made search engines liable for links to content relating to superstars

26 August 2010 | Mark Weston

An Argentinian appeal court has overturned a controversial 2008 ruling in which search engines had been made liable for the content of sites to which those search engines provided links in the results...

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Facebook launches feature that shows user’s real-time locations

24 August 2010 | Mark Weston

Facebook has launched a new feature that allows people to see where a user is. Facebook has extolled the virtues of Facebook Places by saying that it is useful for two friends to see if they are both in...

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ICO gives Google minor ticking off for its interception of wireless data during Street View data gathering

11 August 2010 | Mark Weston

The Information Commissioner’s Office has given Google a ticking off but went on to say that no further action was necessary after the UK’s data protection regulator had investigated the search engine...

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European Union Article 29 Working Party says consent for cookies cannot be implied by computer settings but has to be express

8 July 2010 | Mark Weston

Last year, the European Union published a Citizens' Rights Directive amending the 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. The upshot of the change - which must be brought into each country's...

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Google’s Street View cars have been recording people’s wi-fi communications in error

25 May 2010 | Mark Weston

Google has been involved in more controversy over its Street View service, as its cars have been inadvertently collecting the contents of wireless communications from people’s unsecured wi-fi networks...

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RIPA law is proportionate and doesn’t breach privacy or human rights – Kennedy v UK, the European Court of Human Rights

20 May 2010 | Mark Weston

A man who claimed that the UK’s interception laws had wrongfully interfered with his privacy rights has lost his case. Malcolm Kennedy was a prominent campaigner against miscarriages of justice after...

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Loaded did not invade woman’s privacy for including pictures from her Bebo page when she was 15 because the photos were in widespread use across the Internet

17 May 2010 | Mark Weston

Loaded has been found not to have invaded a woman’s privacy, despite using pictures of her that had originally been posted on her page on the Bebo social networking site when she was 15. The Press Complaints...

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Music, movies, moolah – free online?

28 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The new Digital Economy Act includes provisions about online copyright infringement (including 'file-sharing' and 'peer-to-peer' transfer). Under the Act, over the next few months OFCOM is to supervise...

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Google suffers stinging attack on its privacy practices from leading privacy regulators in Buzz storm

23 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Google has received a stinging attack from leading privacy regulators. The online giant came under fire after it had launched a new service called Buzz that took what had previously been private data from...

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