If you sign a petition supporting a controversial ballot referendum should your name and address be publicized (posted online) in the interests of transparency? Do you have a right to privacy or relative anonymity when you engage in political advocacy that trumps the public right to know your identity? These difficult, increasingly familiar questions are…
Category: Govt
Feinstein: Setting the record straight on warrantless wiretapping program
For the past three and a half years there has been a major debate over the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program. This program, which involved the surveillance of communications between Americans and people outside of the country, began shortly after September 11. It was brought to public light in December 2005, was the subject…
AU privacy law update expected soon
The Special Minister of State, Senator Joe Ludwig expects to publish a reponse to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report on updating the Privacy Laws “within weeks”. The Government had set itself a loose deadline of responding sometime between August 11, 2009 and February 2010. Read more on iTnews.
Mom says city breached her privacy to stranger
The City of Richmond is investigating allegations a city staffer breached city privacy policies. A Richmond woman, who does not want to be identified, said she was shocked when the grandmother of a girl who stays with her family each summer showed up at a local swimming pool where the girl and the woman’s own…