Henry Samuel reports: France’s best-known TV newsreader was on Wednesday found guilty of breaching his former mistress’s privacy for publishing her love letters in a novel, after a court ruled it could not be qualified as fiction. Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, 63, whose evening news broadcasts were regularly watched by eight million people until he was…
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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…
AU: The Cybercrime Bill is Excessive and Unbalanced
A policy statement from the Australia Privacy Foundation: The Commonwealth Attorney-General has rammed a Cybercrime Amendment Bill through the House of Representatives, and now has it before the Senate. His claim is that its purpose is to to enable Australia to accede to the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime. The Attorney-General contrived to squeeze the time available…
ACLU Wins Round in Battle Against Warrantless Cell Phone Location Tracking
Jay Stanley of the ACLU writes: Today the ACLU won a significant victory in our battle to ensure that cell phones don’t become Big Brother tracking devices. Following a four-year fight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to comply with our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…