Google is well known for its minimalist, plain home page. Now there is a change. There is a link to the Google privacy policy. There has been pressure on Google to adhere to the convention of making a privacy policy link available on its main page. Up to this point, Google […]
A New York court ruling effectively renders Google’s privacy policy useless. Google, the owner of YouTube, must surrender all data about site visitors to YouTube:
“…Google must hand over all the information contained in its logging database, including the login ID of the users who have watched videos, the time they started to watch the […]
In a lengthy litigation process, the European Court of Human Rights has recognized that the surveillance of telephone communication tramples privacy rights:
“Government phone-tapping practices have violated the right to privacy, the European court of human rights ruled yesterday. It described the legal discretion granted to the government for intercepting communications as “virtually unfettered”. Procedures covering […]
Even for an internet giant like eBay, a sixty one million dollar fine makes for a rough way to begin the week. A French court has ruled against eBay:
“A French court has fined eBay Inc. $61 million for allowing the sale of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture counterfeit goods on its Web […]
Your email is private, even at work. The appeals court has ruled that, under certain circumstances, email is indeed private:
“…Under Wednesday’s ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, employers that contract an outside business to transmit text messages can’t read them unless the worker agrees.”
link: SF court protects privacy of work […]
A convicted felon is appealing his spam conviction. His lawyer is arguing that the legislation against spam violated free speech:
“…Lawyer Thomas M. Wolf said the state law that makes bulk e-mailing a felony is unconstitutional because it fails to distinguish between commercial messages, which are not covered by the First Amendment, and protected political […]
Surveillance cameras are synonymous with security and preventing crime. At least, this is the common perception associated with surveillance. It is the sacrifice of some privacy for some security. In Britain, where there is so much citizen monitoring that it is called the ‘Surveillance Society’, the empirical data are contrary to common […]
The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld the first felony conviction for spam email. Spam is not protected as a constitutional right to free speech. The spammer was convicted to a nine year prison sentence.
“…Prosecutors presented evidence of 53,000 illegal e-mails Jaynes sent over three days in July 2003. But authorities believe […]
