FaceBook Data Concerns

Social networking sites such as MySpace and FaceBook are becoming increasingly popular.  Most adults between the age of 18 and 30 seem to be registered on either or both of these social networking sites.  FaceBook was among the fastest growing websites (according to comScore) last year – it saw a staggering 2,167% growth in the…

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Microsoft v EU: Conference on the IT Industry and the Future of Competition Law

The Institute of European Law at the University of Birmingham is to host a conference devoted to the analysis of Microsoft v EU. The Institute describes it as a landmark case both because of its findings and because of its future implications. Attendance at the Conference, which begins on Friday 6 May at 4 pm…

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Blog Taster: IP Addresses are Personal Data – Official

Brief but important note, via the Asociated Press: the EU Art 29 Working Party group working on privacy, DP and Internet search engines (notably Google) has issued an early press release. ‘Germany’s data protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated…

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