Joe Cadillic writes: If ever you needed a reason to turn off your cellphone, then maybe this story this will convince you. The Palm Beach Post recently revealed how the City of Palm Beach, Florida wants to track everyone’s cellphones “The idea is to analyze where downtown visitors go — what shops, what public places,…
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UK: Rape Victims Could Feel Pressured Into Handing Over Their Phone
This item relates to a statement from the ICO’s office in the UK that I posted earlier today. Ciara Sheppard reports: Campaigners have warned that victims of rape and sexual assault could be deterred from coming forward under a new policy requiring them to hand over access to their mobile phones and social media accounts….
Misunderstanding Katz; Forgetting Smith
Scott Greenfield writes: About a decade ago, it became clear that the Fourth Amendment framework for the physical world was going to present some problems when applied to the digital world. Some of the academics who ponder such things, like Dan Solove and Orin Kerr, tried to come up with competing theories and approaches that…
South Africa Data Protection Regulations Expected to Take Effect in 2019
Ian Jacobsberg and Lutfiyyah Ahmed of HoganLovells write: Although South Africa’s first comprehensive piece of data protection legislation, the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), was originally signed into law in November 2013, the substantive provisions of the law have not yet taken legal effect. That is likely to change since South Africa’s data protection…