China’s gov.cn site today indicates that an amendment strengthening personal data protection and increasing penalties for leaks or breaches (discussed on Xinhuanet yesterday) has been adopted: China’s top legislature on Saturday adopted an amendment to the Resident Identity Card Law in a bid to better protect residents’ personal information in identity cards. The Standing Committee of the National…
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When a government spies on its people, Wednesday edition
If you thought the recently revealed New York Police Department surveillance of Muslims on college campuses was outrageous, there are other new revelations about NYPD surveillance of Muslims. Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo report of Associated Press report: Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or…
Sunday Mirror loses bid to overturn Olivier Martinez privacy ruling
Josh Halliday reports: The publisher of the Sunday Mirror has lost its bid to overturn a privacy action brought in the French courts by the actor Olivier Martinez. Martinez successfully sued Sunday Mirror publisher Mirror Group in 2008 over an online article about his relationship with the pop star Kylie Minogue. The British publisher took its…
Facebook to give German state privacy exemption
Facebook has offered a special exemption from its data handling practices to Schleswig-Holstein after the northern German state’s data protection commissioner complained about the online social network’s popular “like” button. Thilo Weichert, who leads the state’s data protection efforts, said in August that the site’s “like” button violated German privacy laws because it allowed Facebook…