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[Gadget Helpline UK: Gadget Advice, Gadget help, Gadget manual, Gadget blog. The UK's number one gadget support club] Facebook Face Legal Action Due to Privacy Issues | Gadget Helpline ...: Now it’s Facebook who will be on the phone to their lawyers. The Californian company now face legal proceedings against them after complaints were received that the names and e-mails of people who weren’t members of the social networking site were being stored.

[Pink News] Peter Mandelson says he's a 'good role model' for gay politicians ...: He has never attended any Pride events or Downing Street gay receptions in his role as a politician and has never talked openly about his sexual orientation, instead choosing to guard his privacy. However, Lord Mandelson said he was "rather proud" .

[BlogSDN Articles] California and International Celebrity Lawyer On Invasion of ...: In an effort to prevent theft, sexual harassment, the viewing of pornography on office computers and the perpetration of actionable civil or criminal acts, employers are in many instances intruding on and invading the privacy of their employees. Employers are using hidden cameras, workplace searches, keystroke monitoring computer programs, e-mail, website and voice mail monitoring, and other software to snoop on their employees while cloaking themselves with the claim that their actions are being done to “protect”

[Get Some News -- Americas] As US moves to stop libel tourism reform in the UK seems a long ...: In contrast to the position in the UK, where freedom of expression is frequently, often tortuously, balanced against other rights such as privacy, in the US free speech is treated with something like reverence. As the committee’s chairman senator Patrick Leahy put it: “The first amendment is a cornerstone of American democracy.”

[CNET News - Security] Facebook's privacy policies hit a language barrier | The Social ...: This week, data protection officials in Hamburg, Germany, sent a menacing missive in Facebook's direction, accusing the social network of partaking in illegal activities by retaining data about people who aren't members of the site but whose contact information may have come into its possession through members' e-mail importer tools. Last year, the privacy commissioner in Canada put significant pressure on Facebook to simplify its privacy controls, citing concerns that were pulled back into the spotlight when a Toronto law firm filed suit against Facebook this month, for which it's seeking class-action status.

[Shoryuken] The Concerned Citizens of the United States: Their concern should be at how easy it was to invade the privacy of at least 1300 people. I'd bet that many of the ones involved are the sort of people who believe that it's justified to trample upon privacy rights just to uphold some mock-heroic ideological cause, yet fail to see that those very same rights are what (temporarily, anyway) veil their illegal activities.

[Inforrm's Blog] Opinion: “Prior notification in privacy cases - A response to ...: Where restitutio is not possible, but prevention is possible, a powerful argument is needed to justify depriving the citizen of the protection afforded by prevention. The fact that damages may be the only remedy available in certain cases does not remove the need to make other, more effective means available whenever this can be done.

[Loss of Privacy] The coming inevitability of biometric IDs - Loss of Privacy: In the past two months there have been numerous stories published concerning various governments pushing biometric ID as the way to protect people from terrorism. What it really does is create a nice database on the population of a country, making everyone identifiable and eroding privacy.

[ReputationDefender Blog] Reputation Defender : Reputation Management, Internet Privacy, and ...: In the wake of Google’s Wi-Fi sniffing scandal, politicians have seized on populist anger over privacy violations and are looking hard at passing more stringent privacy regulations for Internet companies. Jim Dempsey, vice president for public policy for the Center for Democracy &

[The Financial Services Club's Blog] The Financial Services Club's Blog: Europe is from Mars, America ...: Gaffney: I can’t speak for the US government obviously, as I’m not a government official anymore, but I suspect that one of the reasons why there might be a resistance to the kind of reciprocity that seems otherwise unobjectionable and fair, is to the extent that European governments and maybe even the European Parliament itself, have been penetrated by folks who are sympathetic to or actually working for organisations like the Muslim Brotherhood. That would be a real problem from the security point of view that I’m talking about.

[Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk] When will Prime Minister David Cameron re-affirm and extend the ...: The United Kingdom suffers from tens of thousands of pages of complicated criminal laws, and thousands of new, often unenforceable criminal offences, which have been created as a "Pretend to be Seen to Be Doing Something" response to tabloid media hype and hysteria, and political social engineering dogmas. These overbroad, catch-all laws, which remove the scope for any judicial appeals process, have been rubber stamped, often without being read, let alone properly understood, by Members of Parliament.

[Prescriptions] This Week's Health Industry News - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com: House Republicans are pressing a petition to repeal the health care overhaul, mostly for political purposes, and the Senate may take up legislation passed by the House curbing “pay for delay.” Those are deals in which brand-name pharmaceutical companies pay makers of generic drugs to delay the release of lower-priced products. Both the brand and generic companies like that arrangement, but it may cost consumers an extra $35 billion over the next decade.

[Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk] Russian "illegal" spy in the USA "traveled on a fraudulent British ...: The United Kingdom suffers from tens of thousands of pages of complicated criminal laws, and thousands of new, often unenforceable criminal offences, which have been created as a "Pretend to be Seen to Be Doing Something" response to tabloid media hype and hysteria, and political social engineering dogmas. These overbroad, catch-all laws, which remove the scope for any judicial appeals process, have been rubber stamped, often without being read, let alone properly understood, by Members of Parliament.

[News] Will Nicolas Sarkozy be brought down by le Guido français ...: When Jacques Chirac pardoned more than a thousand politicians who had been found guilty of corruption, no French newspaper so much as alluded to the fact that they had been accused. Indeed, when Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, pointed out that one of these politicians had been nominated as a European Commissioner, he was told by the President of the European Parliament to withdraw his remarks or risk prosecution.

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