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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...

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

Data Breaches: New Financial Penalties

13 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The Information Commissioner now has a new power to impose a monetary penalty of up to £500,000 if a data controller has seriously contravened the data protection principles and the contravention was...

Tags on this discussion: data data protection data protection act personal data privacy

Internet piracy could cost over one million European jobs by 2015

22 March 2010 | Mark Weston

The growth in illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing on the Internet has a real impact on the European economy. There will be a loss of over one million jobs across Europe by 2015 and over £200bn due to the...

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

Parliamentary group advocates journalists informing subjects of their stories before going to print

26 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a report calling for the Press Complaints Commission to recommend journalists to pre-notify people who are the subject of stories before...

Tags on this discussion: Human Rights Act Press Complaints Commission privacy

European data protection supervisor concerned over data protection issues with international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement

25 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Peter Hustinx – the European data protection supervisor – has expressed concern that the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement currently being negotiated may not be protecting people’s data protection...

Tags on this discussion: Acta anti-counterfeiting trade agreement copyright copyright infringement counterfeit data data controller data protection data protection act Data Provider European Commission illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights IP personal data privacy unauthorised unlawful

Freedom of Speech 1 John Terry 0 – LNS v Persons Unknown, High Court

9 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The recent tidal wave of the developing laws of privacy has been halted with the High Court’s recent refusal to continue an injunction stopping the reporting of the indiscretions of a footballer. John...

Tags on this discussion: damages free speech freedom of expression Human Rights Act injunction privacy

Virgin controversially trials new software to get info on peer-to-peer file-sharers

26 January 2010 | Mark Weston

Virgin Media is planning to trial new software called CView which would analyse file-sharing by its customers. Privacy International – a privacy rights watchdog – has taken issue with the Internet...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement CView debill Digital Economy Bill European Commission file-sharing illegal interception of communications peer-to-peer privacy

Social networking use creates creeping threat to privacy, according to academic

8 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

People routinely posting embarrassing personal details and photos on social networking sites are eroding all of our collective privacy rights. That is according to Dr Kieron O’Hara, a Senior Research...

Tags on this discussion: Court of Appeal privacy

Premier League boss caught in a brothel – but tabloids unable to reveal his identity because of creeping privacy laws

5 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

A football Premier League manager has been caught virtually with his trousers down in morally questionable circumstances. However, The Sun newspaper (which broke the story) and other tabloids have been...

Tags on this discussion: freedom of expression Human Rights Act privacy public interest

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Latest news and views tagged privacy

Music, movies, moolah – free online?

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

Data Breaches: New Financial Penalties

Internet piracy could cost over one million European jobs by 2015

Parliamentary group advocates journalists informing subjects of their stories before going to print

European data protection supervisor concerned over data protection issues with international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement

Freedom of Speech 1 John Terry 0 – LNS v Persons Unknown, High Court

Virgin controversially trials new software to get info on peer-to-peer file-sharers

Social networking use creates creeping threat to privacy, according to academic

Premier League boss caught in a brothel – but tabloids unable to reveal his identity because of creeping privacy laws

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