Connor Jones reports: A new UK law, which has just received royal assent, will see anyone found to have clicked on terrorist propaganda handed a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. The new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 which gives UK law enforcement greater powers to investigate suspected hostile activity, also updates…
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[UPDATED] Supreme Court of Canada to rule on case of teacher who secretly filmed students’ cleavage
UPDATE of Feb. 14: Hallelujah, common sense and privacy prevailed. Michael Geist tweets: Supreme Court of Canada overturns Court of Appeal in Jarvis with win for privacy – “students recorded by the accused were in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy” https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/17515/index.do — Michael Geist (@mgeist) February 14, 2019 Supreme Court…
India Seeks Access to Private Messages in WhatsApp Crackdown
Saritha Rai reports: India’s government dealt retail giants Amazon.com and Walmart a devastating blow this year with new policies undermining their growth plans. Now U.S. social media pioneers Facebook and Twitter are in danger of suffering similar setbacks in what is perhaps the world’s most important emerging technology market. In the latest skirmish, the government…
Mark your calendar: U.S. Senate Commerce Committee to Hold Hearings on Privacy: February 27
Seen on Hunton Andrews Kurth: On February 27, 2019, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing titled “Privacy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States.” The hearing will focus on potential Congressional action to “address risks to consumers and implement data privacy protections for all…