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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...

Tags on this discussion: defamation e-commerce E-Commerce Directive E-Commerce Regulations EU European Union hyperlink illegal libel link Online online content privacy search search engine search engines search result search term unauthorised unlawful web site web sites Website website content

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...

Tags on this discussion: Online privacy social networking site web site web sites Website website content

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...

Tags on this discussion: data data controller data protection data protection act data security data subject ICO Information Commissioner Information Commissioner's Office interception of communications personal data privacy wi-fi

ISPs seek judicial ruling over legality of Digital Economy Act

21 July 2010 | Mark Weston

BT and Talk Talk – the Internet service providers – have asked the High Court to provide a ruling as to whether the Digital Economy Act is unlawful. They complain that the Act was scrambled through...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement Digital Economy Act Digital Economy Bill ePrivacy Directive file-sharing High Court illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet service provider IP ISP P2P peer-to-peer privacy privacy and electronic communications (ec directive) regulations Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive privacy and electronic communications regulations unauthorised unenforceable unlawful

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...

Tags on this discussion: advertising advertising network advertising network service provider Article 29 Working Party behavioural advertising cookies data data protection ePrivacy Directive EU European Union opt-in opt-out privacy Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive

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...

Tags on this discussion: data data controller data protection data security ICO Information Commissioner's Office misuse of data personal data privacy Regulator Street View

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...

Tags on this discussion: data data protection act data subject data subject access DPA ECHR European Convention on Human Rights European Court of Human Rights Human Rights Act interception of communications privacy proportionate Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act RIPA surveillance

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...

Tags on this discussion: Internet PCC Press Complaints Commission privacy social networking site

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...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement data protection Digital Economy Act Digital Economy Bill file-sharing illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights peer-to-peer privacy unlawful

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...

Tags on this discussion: Buzz confidential information data data controller data protection Data Provider data security databases Information Commissioner's Office misuse of data personal data privacy

Latest input tagged privacy

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

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

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

ISPs seek judicial ruling over legality of Digital Economy Act

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

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

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

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

Music, movies, moolah – free online?

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

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