A legal case against Facebook, which will involve a 14-year-old taking the company to court in Belfast over naked images published on the social network, could open the floodgates for other civil claims, according to lawyers who work with victims of revenge pornography. Facebook’s forthcoming trial, which centres on the claim that it is liable for the...
David Kaye, the top UN expert on free expression, stated [press release] Friday that reports that Yahoo allowed the US government to search hundreds of millions of customers’ e-mails “raise serious human rights concerns.” According to recent reports [NYT report], Yahoo is alleged to have created software to scan all incoming e-mail for specific criteria provided by either the...
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the...
The UK has failed to meet many human rights recommendations made by the United Nations and should do more to prevent prison overcrowding, tackle hate crimes and restrict stop and search powers, a coalition of 175 civil society organisations claims. Their report, coordinated by the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and submitted to the UN in...
Vulnerable victims and witnesses will no longer have to appear in court to give evidence and fare dodgers will be able to plead guilty and pay fines online under new reforms. The radical changes to court procedures in England and Wales are part of a £1bn programme to modernise the courts announced jointly by the...
Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country’s economy. The trio will be among the first senior bankers globally to be jailed for their role in the collapse of a...
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