UK NEWS: TWITTER WILL NOTIFY USERS ACCUSED OF GAGGING ORDER BREACHES

Via The Guardian Twitter will notify its users before handing their personal information to UK authorities seeking to prosecute them over alleged breaches of privacy injunctions, a senior executive at the company said on Thursday. Asked about the escalating dispute over gagging orders in Britain, Twitter’s general manager of European operations, Tony Wang, said: “Platforms should have responsibility not to defend the user, but to protect that user’s right to defend him or herself.” Twitter was thrown into the centre of the []

TV/FILM: BROWN PAPER DOLLS INTERVIEW

UK blogger Michelle Owusu at SceneTV recently caught up with Brown Paper Dolls, an LA-based production company made up of three ambitious and talented ladies, who aim to show and tell more diverse stories and perspectives through TV and film. The ladies from Brown Paper Dolls have also released a trailer for their production Milk + Honey, which is executive produced by British actor Idris Elba. Check out Michelle’s interview below. Who are ‘Brown Paper Dolls’? Who is involved and how and why was []

UK MUSIC NEWS: YOLANDA BROWN TO PLAY BENEFIT CONCERT FOR JAPAN DISASTER AT UNDER THE BRIDGE

  Black Grape Global and Yamaha Music are delighted to present a special benefit concert by the double MOBO Award winning saxophonist YolanDa Brown, to help raise funds for The Japan Society’s Tohoku earthquake relief fund. The concert on Saturday 4th June is to be held at London’s luxurious new entertainment venue ‘Under The Bridge’, costing £20 million and located within the Chelsea Football Club complex at Stamford Bridge. Yamaha Artist YolanDa Brown is widely regarded as the emerging “voice” of mainstream []

UK NEWS: RYAN GIGGS NAMED BY MP AS INJUNCTION FOOTBALLER

Thousands of pounds spent on securing this ridiculous super injunction. What a waste of money. Ryan Giggs probably wants to strangle his slippery lawyer right now, who knew that the footballer’s identity would be revealed at some point, and that taking out an injunction was a waste of time and money. Via BBC News A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been identified in Parliament as Ryan Giggs. Lib []

UK NEWS: BENEFIT FRAUD CASE DELAYED FOR SUSPECT ‘TOO BIG TO FIT IN THE DOCK’

Just when you think you’ve heard and seen it all… (shaking my head) Via The Evening Standard A “clinically obese” fraud suspect asked for her case to be postponed after complaining about the layout of an old fashioned courtroom. Beverley Douglas, 43, claimed she could not climb the stairs to a narrow secure doorway into the dock of Court One at Inner London crown court to face 13 fraud charges. She is accused of claiming thousands of pounds of state handouts while []