The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time. The Home Office says the move is key to tackling [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Defence, Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged david cameron, david davis, GCHQ, home office, intelligence services, parliament, spying, telecommunications, UK coalition government, UK conservative party
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Details of the family feud between Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, and her three oldest children have been reported after a court rejected her bid for privacy. Her children claim the billionaire threatened them with bankruptcy if they did not give her full control of the multi-billion-dollar family trust, according to court documents. Ms Rinehart [...]
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Also posted in Australia, Funnies, Law, Motherhood, Taxation
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Tagged australia's richest woman, capital gains tax, CGT, Gina Rinehart, hancock prospecting, lang hancock, mining
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January 17, 2012 – 8:01 am
In the light of the recent hoo-hah discussed by SL here involving Melinda Tankard-Reist suing blogger Jennifer Wilson for defamation I thought I might revisit the notion of the Streisand effect, because as Russell Blackford has commented, we may be seeing an instance of it unfolding before our eyes. The term Streisand effect was coined after [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Tagged "Officer Bubbles", bruce grobbelaar, defamation, Glenn Beck, Jennifer Wilson, keysar trad, law of defamation, law of unexpected consequences, libel, liskula cohen, Melinda Tankard Reist, Privacy, streisand effect, tort
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January 15, 2012 – 7:53 am
There’s nothing quite like getting up first thing in the morning to discover service documents sitting in your hallway (or, if you’re in Australia or the US, poking out of your mailbox). This is what has happened to Australian political and skeptical blogger Jennifer Wilson (her blog is ‘No Place for Sheep’) yesterday. I have [...]
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Also posted in Feminism, Law, Public Policy, Science, Sexuality, Skeptics, Tort
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Tagged Article 8 ECHR, Brian Harradine, Campbell v MGN Ltd, Christopher Hitchens, clive hamilton, Collective Shout, defamation, God's Police, Jennifer Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, Lenah Game Meats v ABC, Leslie Cannold, Melinda Tankard Reist, No Place for Sheep, Rachel Hills, Russell Blackford, Spinifex Press
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August 18, 2011 – 3:33 pm
Social networking sites bring up a whole load of complications as they can lead to a blurring of the line between personal and professional. In a post on the topic of social networking I wrote a while back, a commenter, Chris, alerted me to a powerpoint slideshow on social networking here. It’s worth looking at [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Internet, Law, Society
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Tagged bullying, discretion, employee, employer, employment, employment law, Facebook, Fair Work Australia, friendship, Internet, sexual harassment, social media, social networking, termination
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Good News: Part 3 will probably be postponed until the official enquiry or criminal prosecutions – whichever comes first.
By DeusExMacintosh
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Tagged Andy Coulson, boris johnson, david cameron, ed miliband, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, news corporation, News International, phone-hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, speaker bercow, the news of the world, The Sun
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The last edition of the News of the World has been published, its front page declaring: “Thank you & goodbye.” In a full-page editorial the paper offers an apology. “Quite simply, we lost our way,” it says. Publisher News International axed the 168-year-old tabloid in the wake of phone-hacking allegations last week. Scotland Yard Assistant [...]
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Tagged Andy Coulson, assistant commissioner john yates, BSkyB, david cameron, ed miliband, metropolitan police, news corp, News International, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, scotland yard, the news of the world, The Sun, UK conservative party, UK labour party, yates of the yard
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This Sunday’s issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said. In the past few days, claims have been made that the paper authorised hacking into the mobile phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and the families of 7/7 bombing victims. Mr [...]
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Tagged Hugh Grant, James Murdoch, News International, News of the Screws, News of the World, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, tabloid journalism, The Sun, UK politics
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Families of 7/7 bombing victims may have had their phones hacked by the News of the World, it has emerged. A solicitor for some of the relatives said one family had been told their phone may have been hacked in 2005. The paper has also passed to police e-mails which allegedly show payments by it [...]
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Tagged 7/7 bombings, Andy Coulson, BSkyB, ian huntley, levi bellfield, london bombings, Milly Dowler, News International, News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, soham murders
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