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European Countries Fed Up With Google’s Privacy Policy.

15 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in European Union, France, Germany, Intellectual Property, International Law, Internet, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

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Dutch Authority To Google: Change Privacy Policy Or Else, by Lock Essers, PCWorld

http://tinyurl.com/n6h5b7y

If Google doesn’t change how it handles users’ private data by the end of February, it may face fines of €15 million (about US$18.6 million), the Dutch Privacy Authority said Monday.

Google’s current privacy policy breaches several provisions of the Dutch data protection act, the regulator found in an investigation in 2013. In particular, the probe showed that Google breaches the law when it combines data from different services like search queries, location data and videos watched.

‘Google catches us in an invisible web of our personal data without telling us and without asking us for our consent. This has been ongoing since 2012 and we hope our patience will no longer be tested,’ said Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the Dutch DPA.

By the end of February, Google should get ‘unambiguous consent’ from its users before it combines personal data from different Google services to serve targeted ads, the DPA said. This could for instance be achieved by introducing a separate consent window.

Moreover, Google should also give clear and consistent information in its privacy policy to people who use several Google services. . . .

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International Law: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

06 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Appellate Law, International Law, United Kingdom

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Constitutional Reform Act of 2005, Donna Sokol, Great Britain, In Custodia Legis, Law Library of Congress, Supreme Court, UK, United Kingdom

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, by  Donna Sokol, In Custodia Legis, Law Librarians of Congress

http://tinyurl.com/kyg8bwz

Yesterday we celebrated the fourth birthday of In Custodia Legis, and today we have reached another milestone: this is the 1,000th blog post that we’ve published!  We asked David S. Mao, the Law Librarian of Congress, to write the 1,000th post.  In it, he highlights some of the many different areas of interest for the Law Library of Congress, such as legal systems, courts, foreign law, and of course, our collection of current and historical legal materials.

On a trip to London in 2012, I walked past the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom located in Parliament Square. Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to visit the Court, as it was Sunday and the building was closed. I was, however, able to take a picture of the front doors.

Earlier this summer, I visited London again. This time I made sure to visit Parliament Square on a weekday so I was able to visit the Court.

While the UK has a long history as a sovereign state, the Supreme Court is a very new entity in the UK. It was created by the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005, with the Justices of the Supreme Court sitting for the first time in October 2009. The Court hears civil appeals from all parts of the UK, and criminal appeals from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. I’ll leave it to Clare to explain the intricacies of the Court’s jurisdiction. . . .

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Updated Foreign Law Research Primer.

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Australia, Brazil, Case Law, China, Citations, Egypt, Eritrea, France, Hong Kong, India, International Law, International Law, Israel, Law Journals, Law Libraries, Lebanon, Legal Directories, Legal Encyclopedia, Mandatory Law, Primary Law, References, Regulations, Research, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom

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Foreign and International Legal Research Guides – Pic of the Week, by Donna Sokol, In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

http://tinyurl.com/opqzrpr

Don’t let the title “Pic of the Week” fool you. This is an updated legal research guide for fourteen foreign jurisdictions:  Australia; Brazil; United Kingdom; China; Egypt; Eritrea; France; Hong Kong; India; Israel; Japan; Lebanon; Russia; and Sweden.  It links to these countries’ reference sources, compilations, citations guides, periodicals (indexes and databases), dictionaries, web resources, free public web sites, subscription-based services, subject-specific web sites, and country overviews. -CCE

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