Google and Facebook could face new privacy code
Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 3 November 2010 01:40
Companies such as Google and Facebook could be subject to a new privacy code under proposals from communications minister Ed Vaizey.The code would allow individuals to seek redress against internet companies if they felt their privacy had been invaded,
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Germany calls for privacy code after Google Street View concerns
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:01 Written by External Post Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:01
The German government has called for internet companies to draw up a data protection code following security concerns over Google Street View.Thomas de Maiziere , the German interior minister, said the guidelines will force companies to work out how to
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Germans to ban Facebook job checks
Last Updated on Monday, 23 August 2010 03:40 Written by External Post Monday, 23 August 2010 03:40
German employers may soon be forbidden from examining the Facebook profiles of prospective employees, under a new law that has just been drafted in the country. According to various German newspapers on Monday, interior minister Thomas de Maizire has
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Australia unbans the internet
Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Friday, 9 July 2010 01:40
Australia’s minister for broadband, and censorship, Stephen Conroy has delayed the switch-on of its Chinese-style national firewall until after the election. Conroy’s moves have been criticised on technical, practical, economic and moral grounds to no
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Smutty Twitter scam snares U.K. politician
Last Updated on Friday, 26 February 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Friday, 26 February 2010 07:00
U.K. energy minister Ed Miliband (Credit: ) Good heavens! If your Twitter followers include Ed Miliband, the U.K. secretary of state for energy, there’s a chance that you received a direct message from him early on Friday that read, ‘Hhey, i’ve been
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Twitter phishing hack hits BBC, PCC.. and Guardian.. and cabinet minister
Last Updated on Friday, 26 February 2010 03:30 Written by External Post Friday, 26 February 2010 03:30
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Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self
Last Updated on Friday, 26 February 2010 04:45 Written by External Post Friday, 26 February 2010 04:45
An anonymous reader writes ‘Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the minister attempting to ram the great firewall of Oz down everyone’s throat has been removing all traces of the unpopular legislation from his main website with a javascript filter.
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One reason Health minister is secretive over paid-for Google ads?
Last Updated on Friday, 12 February 2010 04:02 Written by External Post Friday, 12 February 2010 04:02
Three years ago, the then NPfIT minister Caroline Flint condemned a PR company which had placed pay-per-click keyword adverts with Google. The PR company was working for NHS Connecting for Health on improving the image the of NHS IT scheme, NPfIT. Flint
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Google too powerful, warns German minister
Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 02:15 Written by External Post Monday, 11 January 2010 02:15
Google is in danger of becoming a monopoly like Microsoft and governments will soon have to act as regulators, the German minister of Justice has warned. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger believes Google is fast collecting too much information on
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France Considers ‘Pirate Tax’ For Online Ads
Last Updated on Friday, 8 January 2010 12:15 Written by External Post Friday, 8 January 2010 12:15
angry tapir writes ‘A report commissioned by the French Minister of Culture Frdric Mitterrand urges the introduction of a tax on online advertising such as that carried by Google, which would be used to pay the creators of artistic and other works that
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