Gareth Corfield reports: A new UK law will explicitly authorise the “voluntary” slurping of data from mobile phones of crime suspects and witnesses. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which was introduced to Parliament this week, contains clauses that will allow police and others to extract data from mobile phones if the user “voluntarily”…
Category: Laws
Human rights lawyers ask Australia’s ‘hacking’ Bill be redrafted
Asha Barbaschow |reports: Human Rights Law Centre and the Law Council of Australia have asked that the federal government redraft the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, calling its contents “particularly egregious” and “so broad”. The Bill, if passed, would hand the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)…
Florida is the Latest State to Consider Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation
And now Florida? Glenn A. Brown and Christina Lamoureux of Squire Patton Boggs write: The Florida state legislature is considering a sweeping data privacy bill introduced by Governor Ron DeSantis in February. House Bill 969 is the latest state provision to follow in the footsteps of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the California Privacy…
Swiss mull ‘burqa ban’ in vote centering on security, rights
Jamey Keaten reports: At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by…