Research in Motion has bowed to the Indian government at last. It told the home ministry that it will comply with the 31 January deadline to provide a “final solution” – you what!? – for lawful access to its data services. This will be done by giving ministers access to the records over a cloud…
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CRTC announces that Bell Canada has paid a $1.3 million penalty for violating the National Do Not Call List Rules
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has reached a settlement with Bell Canada over the company’s unauthorized telemarketing practices. The CRTC has issued a notice of violation, and Bell Canada has paid an administrative monetary penalty of $1.3 million to the Receiver General for Canada. Between January and October of this year, calls were made to consumers…
Viviane Reding takes on US over data privacy rights in anti-terror campaign
Leigh Phillips reports: The EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has confronted Washington over data protection rights in the fight against terror, accusing the US of being interested only in accessing European citizens’ bank records and flight schedules but not in protecting their rights while doing so. Today Reding complained that at a meeting in Washington…
Recommended Reading: Monitoring America
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin report: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the…