Marc Rotenberg on Google’s Italian Privacy Case

March 9th, 2010 admin

Interesting commentary: I don’t think this is really a case about ISP liability at all. It is a case about the use of a person’s image, without their consent, that generates commercial value for someone else. That is the essence of the Italian law at issue in this case. It is also how the right of privacy was first established…


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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