The Register reports that the BNP has had the entirety of its membership list leaked and posted online.
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neilstewart
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Barbara Gordon
Max Mosley has applied to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to reform the UK’s privacy laws by forcing UK newspaper editors to tell people when they are going to publish stories about them.
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Barbara Gordon
Two cases of interest: man wins libel case over false Facebook profile and Max Mosley wins privacy case against News of the World.
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Barbara Gordon
Google to hand over YouTube viewer logs to Viacom “Google must hand over the log holding details of every user who has watched any video on YouTube, a US court ruled”
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Barbara Gordon
Facebook violates privacy laws: “A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site Facebook accusing it of violating privacy laws.” [BBC]
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Barbara Gordon
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Barbara Gordon
UK government wants a phone call and email database. Worlds of bad!
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Barbara Gordon
In excellent news: Information Commissioner gets power to fine for privacy breaches
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jennielaw
I’ve had to figure out how to turn off Beacon in Facebook, as it was asking to send info to my Facebook profile when I was playing games on what must be a partner site in America. I didn’t even know it affected UK users yet! Iwas having to tell it ‘no’ for only a few games though – odd.
To turn it off:
Privacy >
News Feed and Mini Feeds >
Actions on External Websites >
Tick box marked “Don’t allow any websites to send stories to my profile.”
Save changes.Just in case anyone else wants to get rid of it and hasn’t done this already!
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neilstewart
An interesting tip from Boing Boing- apparently the Internet Archive can be considered a library for the purposes of protecting its contributors from the Patriot Act. This has allowed the EFF to overturn a gagging order imposed by the FBI.
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iOverlord
Outlaw.com has an excellent piece on Phorm http://www.out-law.com/page-9090
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Barbara Gordon
Facebook security questioned again. “Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found.”
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neilstewart
John Harris writes in the Guardian on his experience of making data protection subject access requests to various companies and agencies, and the varied responses he received.
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Barbara Gordon
Google has started their streetview project outside of the States, Outlaw reports that their camera vans have been spotted in Rome and Milan.
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lo-fi
French websites liable for story in RSS reader Oh, the implications!
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Barbara Gordon
Mosley injunction against News of the World publishing video footage of his ‘orgy’ fails.
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jennielaw
Heathrow Airport has very quietly temporarily dropped their plans to fingerprint every passenger travelling through the new Terminal 5 at the airport, as it’s dubious if they have the authority to compel passengers to give the data.
Had a (very) quick scout about the BAA / Heathrow site to try and find the statement referred to, but can’t see it anywhere obvious?
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neilstewart
Anyone thinking about using Google Apps for education outside the US might be advised to think twice.
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lo-fi
Have you signed the petition?
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Barbara Gordon
The Press Complaints Commission is to examine whether data from social networking sites can be used by the press.
