Italy Convicts Three Google Execs for Violating Privacy Laws, Ruling Could Stifle Web Content

Filed under: Security, GoogleBritain's Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, announced yesterday that a new investigation into the Google Street View privacy debacle will be opened.

Australians should have their rights to online privacy enshrined in legislation, according to a new Parliamentary report. Offenders would then risk being taken to court and sued for violating the privacy of their victims or collecting too much personal data.

As Facebook polls its users on site governance and privacy policy – a poll that looks very likely to result in Facebook withdrawing users’ ability to vote on site governance changes – the European activists behind the Europe v Facebook campaign group, which accuses Facebook of violating Europe’s Data Protection Laws, have stepped up their long running battle against the soc

Despite storing the personal data of its customers without informing them via its privacy statement, the Australian privacy Commissioner has no ability to impose any penalty whatsoever upon Lush Cosmetics.

Could cost the company tens of thousands of euros

In March this year, a lawyer working for the firm Brown Rudnick wrote a speculative article, claiming that Google may be violating the GNU General Public Licence in its Android operating system.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will pay a $22.5 million civil penalty to settle U.S. government charges that it skirted the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Safari browser, the largest fine ever levied by the U.S.

The Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner's handling of the Google StreetView WiFi privacy breach had been "a travesty" and an abrogation of specific responsibilities, the Australian Privacy Foundation has charged.

Facebook has won a court challenge against its real names policy in Germany. Yesterday an administrative court in the North of Germany granted Facebook’s request for “suspensive effect” against a ruling, made by Schleswig-Holstein’s Data Protection Commissioner, that Facebook’s real names policy was violating German and European law. The court ruled that German data p