Thomas McAdam writes: The Justice Department is investigating a group of lawyers working for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for taking pictures of covert CIA agents at Guantanamo Bay and handing them over to known al Qaida operatives. The lawyers, representing several detainees charged with organizing the September 11, 2001, attacks, have been accused…
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Bell Canada ordered to inform customers about data gathering
Peter Nowak of CBC News reports: Canada’s privacy commissioner, fresh off forcing Facebook to change how it handles users’ data, is ordering Bell Canada to change how it informs internet customers of its network-management practices. In a report dated Aug. 13 and made public on Friday, assistant privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the company it…
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Declan McCullagh reports that Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting…
Views sought on privacy law review
From the government of Hong Kong: The Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Bureau has launched a three-month public consultation on the review of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to gauge views on proposals to amend the law. Secretary for Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam said today there is a need to examine whether the law…