Posted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada yesterday, this October outcome: Complaint The complainant alleged that an upgrade to Apple’s operating system(OS) for desktops forced the use of “cloud” servers to be able to synchronize contacts, calendars, email account settings and Safari bookmarks between Apple mobile devices and computers. She claimed that…
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Privacy Advocates Battle DOJ in NSA Spying Case
Arvin Temkar reports: The National Security Agency is illegally searching and seizing Americans’ Internet communications, privacy advocates told a federal judge at a hearing on Friday. At proceedings before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, the Electronic Frontier Foundation battled government attorneys for partial summary judgment in the class action domestic spying case Jewel v. NSA. Read…
Russian Data Localization Law May Now Come into Force One Year Ahead of Schedule, in September 2015
Hogan Lovells writes: On 17 December, the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament) passed legislation that would change the effective date of Russia’s new law requiring the local storage in Russia of the personal data of Russian citizens (Data Localization Law) from 1 September 2016 to 1 September 2015. The legislation currently…
UK: Statement in Open Court, Heat magazine apologizes and pays privacy damages to Jean Bernard Fernandez-Versini
Inforrm reports: A Statement in Open Court [pdf] was read in today in the High Court before Mr Justice Dingemans in the privacy case of Jean Bernard Fernandez-Versini v. Bauer Consumer Media Limited. Heat magazine apologised and agreed to pay damages and costs. The judge was told that Jean Bernard Fernandez-Versini, the husband of the X-Factor judge…