Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
August 31st, 2010
The High Court has granted another injunction to an England footballer to prevent the media reporting aspects of his private life. The order banned the publication of allegations about a “
sexual liaison, encounter or relationship“, after personal
photographs stored on a stolen mobile phone were offered to national newspapers. This is the third injunction issued to an England footballer in the past few weeks.
August 27th, 2010
Little Britain actor Matt Lucas is
taking legal action against the Daily Mail over a story that he claims breached his privacy. Entitled How Matt Lucas learned to laugh again, the article detailed how the actor was affected by the suicide of his former civil partner, Kevin McGee. Lucas said the story that appeared in March was “a very serious invasion of privacy” and an “intrusion into grief”. He claims the article included false information, such as the suggestion that he blamed himself for McGee’s death.
August 27th, 2010
A
proposed data privacy law could prevent companies from checking potential employees’ Facebook profiles. Employers will be allowed to search applicants on Google, but the use of social networking sites in the selection process will be banned. The new legislation will also require companies to notify employees about any monitoring of telephone calls or emails. The German cabinet is set to approve the law on
25 August.
August 12th, 2010
The Indian government has told RIM, the Canadian manufaturers of BlackBerry mobile phones to either provide access to encryption or
face a ban from 31 August onwards. The Indian government says the BES and messenger services pose a grave security concern.
India has one of the largest growing markets for BlackBerry users.
August 12th, 2010
The Scottish golfer and Ryder Cup captain, Colin Montgomerie, has successfully won a
court injunction against details of his private life being exposed. Montgomerie won the
order against a tabloid newspaper in July, but the details have only recently come to light. A settlement between the two parties was reached out of court and there is no evidence that the allegations were true. The order came after reports that Montgomerie’s second marriage was in trouble. The golfer is the
latest celebrity to use a gagging order to prevent articles about their private life being published.
August 10th, 2010
Reports from Khartoum state that the Sudanese government has
suspended BBC radio stations over alleged smuggling offences which included bringing satellite equipment into the country. The stations broadcast in Arabic to around four million people in the north of the country.
Recently the government demanded that journalists in the country
provide private information regarding political views, friends, addresses, bank details and floor plans of their houses. The deadline for the return of this information was August 5. Since then the government has announced that it’s official censorship of newspapers has
ended, but despite this, some newspapers remain closed and intimidation continues.
August 7th, 2010
The barring of photographers from picturing the supermodel at the Hague highlights the clash between privacy and free expression. Simon Jennings reports
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August 6th, 2010
The US government has introduced
new legislation which would allow the FBI to demand personal information from private email accounts. The bill would enable FBI field officers to access information regarding the times and dates emails were sent, as well as the private email addresses of correspondents. The FBI would not need to possess a court order and would simply need to deem the information relevant to demand
private details from internet providers. ISP’s would be forced to keep the requests secret.
