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…
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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…
The 2014 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference
Joe Cadillic reminds me that video from Cato’s recent conference on surveillance is available online. If you missed the conference, do check it out.
The blunt therapist, Friday edition
Because of HIPAA constraints, I can’t provide a lot of details, but when a teenaged patient was in my office with a parent, the teen complained that the parent had required the teen to download an app that enabled the parent to track the teen. “What do you think about parents tracking teens that way?” my patient asked me…