Bill Ray reports: South Africa has joined the call for access to the BlackBerry Messaging service, quoting the usual security concerns and pointing out that the UK plans much the same thing. BBM, the BlackBerry messaging service, has become the medium of choice for the discerning ne’er-do-well, which is strange considering it is a good…
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Hong Kong Introduces a Personal Data (Privacy) Amendment Bill
Gabriela Kennedy and Heidi Gleeson write: The Personal Data (Privacy) Amendment Bill (the “Bill“) was introduced into the Legislative Council on 13 July 2011. The Bill is the culmination of a lengthy consultation process into the reform of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance“) which commenced in 2009. The Bill aims to bring the…
Austrian students report Facebook to Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner
More on an interesting investigation of Facebook by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner that I noted the other day: the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium writes: A move by a group around Vienna-based law student Max Schrems has set in motion a process which has now resulted in a formal privacy investigation by the Irish Data Protection…
Court says that plaintiff did not consent to be pranked by Toyota
Venkat Balasubramani has an update on a lawsuit against Toyota that was mentioned on this site in September 2009. At the time, my reaction to Toyota’s marketing campaign, created for them by Saatchi & Saatchi, was to wonder what the heck they were thinking. To describe the marketing ploy as a Very Very Bad Idea…