This editorial appeared in the Japan Times: The intentions behind the Personal Information Protection Law, which went into effect in April 2005, are good, but it has contributed to a tendency for organizations to withhold benign information that has significantly useful social value. Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, state minister in charge of consumer affairs, who has…
Category: Laws
Congress Unlikely to Reform Privacy Act
Eric Chabrow reports: If Dan Chenok were a bookmaker, he’d make enactment of Privacy Act reform a long shot, at least for the foreseeable future. “The odds privacy legislation would be enacted next session are not high,” says Chenok, who backs Privacy Act reform as chairman of the government’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board,…
Hr: Laws on the personal name violate human rights
From Javno: According to the current law, a person that changes their name has to have both names on the birth certificate. Representatives of the lesbian group Kontra, in association with Croatian Women’s Network and Iskorak, delivered a proposal to the Croatian Constitutional Court in which they challenge the validity of the current law on…
Lawmakers probe deeper into privacy
Kim Hart reports on today’s joint hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Trade, and Commerce Protection and Communications, Technology, and the Internet on data collection online and offline: …. Jennifer Barrett, an executive with Acxiom, a marketing company, said the firm could collect 1,500 possible data points about individual consumers, such…