A woman from Northern Ireland has been awarded £28,000 in damages after a prostitute website published personal photographs of the woman alongside prices for performing various sexual acts.
AngryBirds.com, the website for the popular mobile game has been hacked, with the website calling itself “Spying Birds” after recent revelations about the NSA and GCHQ feasting on data allegedly leaked by the app and others.
More than 500 high-profile names, including authors, musicians and five Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for a bill of digital rights to be developed in the wake of this year’s revelations about state surveillance.
A French court has ordered Google to remove nine photographs of ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley participating in a Nazi-themed sex orgy from its index, ruling that the images breach his privacy.
The Pirate Bay’s PirateBrowser, a tool that allows people to bypass ISP filtering and access blocked websites, is a great success. The Firefox and Tor-based software eliminates the need to use a proxy site and has already been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. Currently around 0.5% of all Pirate Bay visitors use PirateBrowser to access the infamous torrent site.