In a move reported by the Wall Street Journal online, responding to concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission and in the wake of a settled lawsuit, online movie rental powerhouse Netflix announced that it is…
Today the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany struck down a law requiring telecommunications companies to retain individual user data on phone and Internet usage in case it is needed by law enforcement authorities in criminal investigations….
In something of a departure from a trend in some European countries towards considering IP addresses to be personally identifiable information, a French appeals court last week determined that an IP address could not be used…
The recent ruling in an Italian court against three Google executives finding them criminally liable for violated Italian privacy law by allowing a video to be posted on YouTube predecessor Google Video has been widely criticized…
It’s not everyday that you hear Facebook’s most recent changes to its privacy practices referred to in strongly positive terms (at least by people who don’t work for Facebook), but some leading advocates of more fine-grained…
When Joy Pritts, the newly appointed Chief Privacy Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, started her job on Monday, she already had a list of pending action items stemming from activities,…
With a lawsuit filed in federal court last week , school officials in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania are on the defensive over the alleged illegal use of remotely activated webcams in laptop computers issued to students. It…
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