John Barber reports: Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state. Read more on The Guardian.
Category: Govt
IN: TRAI betrays privacy
The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week on DataBreaches.net: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running Trai are ignorant…
Biometrics Great but be Careful Using it with Young People, Biometrics Institute tells Australian Senate Committee.
The independent and international impartial Biometrics Institute representing users, vendors and researchers in the biometric field has warned Governments that extra care must be taken when Governments use children’s biometrics for border protection and other purposes. The Biometrics Institute which began in Australia but is now the chief independent biometrics body in the world was…
Security-bill snooping goes too far: Canada’s privacy commissioner
Ian MacLeod reports: Canadians risk being caught in an web of unbridled government snooping into their personal lives if draft security legislation, Bill C-51, becomes law, warns federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien. While lauding the intent of the proposed national security laws, which would give police and state security agencies sweeping additional authorities to counter terrorism,…