On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it’s worth noting how much we’ve lost – not just measured in the human lives and families forever affected – but also in terms of our privacy and civil liberties. G.W. Schulz, Daniel Zwerdling, and Andrew Becker report: On May 1, 2008, at 4:59 p.m., Brad Kleinerman entered the…
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ACLU Challenges Florida’s Mandatory Drug Tests for Temporary Assistance Recipients
From the ACLU of Florida: The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) today announced it filed suit in federal court seeking to halt implementation of Florida’s new law mandating drug testing of applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program without suspicion of drug use. The suit, filed Tuesday, September 6, 2011…
Leading French newsreader guilty of breaching ex-lover’s privacy
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…
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…