Nihar Shah writes: On March 14, 2012 a California district court ruled in Flores v. Chevron that a gas station gathering ZIP Codes for fraud prevention did not violate Civil Code § 1747.08, the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (“Credit Card Act”). The Credit Card Act prohibits businesses from recording a customer’s personal information in conjunction with a…
Category: Laws
Senator: Employers shouldn’t seek site passwords
Manuel Valdes of Associated Press reports: A Democratic senator from Connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook or other social media passwords, he told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that such a practice is an “unreasonable invasion of privacy…
Plans to introduce first overarching data protection regime in Singapore will help attract business, expert says
Yesterday I posted something about Singapore’s draft data protection law and the call for comments on it. Today, Out-Law.com provides a more detailed overview of the proposed law: The draft legislation sets out rules for the collection, processing and storage of all personal data, whether in electronic or non-electronic form. Companies based outside of Singapore would…
Sg: SMSes to be included in proposed privacy law
The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (Mica) is pushing to include text messages in the national Do-Not-Call (DNC) Registry in its draft data protection Bill. Mica yesterday launched its third round of public comment on the proposed Bill, which will be introduced in Parliament by the third quarter. Read more on AsiaOne. More…