As I have often remarked, whenever you “balance” privacy against something else, privacy will lose. Consider a report today by Sean Murphy of Associated Press that a plan that would better protect the privacy of Oklahomans is encountering resistance: A plan to restrict the amount of personal information included in public court records is drawing…
Category: Laws
The Twitter Wikileaks case: how an outdated law makes a researcher’s impressive analysis somewhat irrelevant
Over on Slight Paranoia, privacy and security researcher Chris Soghoian does a brilliant job of delving into a section of the recent opinion in the Twitter Wikileaks case. In the opinion issued this week, Judge O’Grady addressed the issue of whether three people associated with Wikileaks had any reasonable expectation of privacy in their IP…
German agency may fine Facebook over program
Ah, if it’s Thursday, Facebook must be in trouble with German data protection again. Bloomberg reports: Facebook Inc. may be fined by a German data-protection agency over a feature that uses facial-recognition software to suggest people to tag in photos on its social-networking site. Facebook introduced the feature in Europe “without informing users or getting…
Kenya: Draft Data Protection Bill critically limited
ARTICLE 19 finds the Draft Kenya Data Protection Bill 2009 currently undergoing internal review and stakeholder consultation to be critically limited and calls on the Constitution Implementation Commission to revise it to be in line with acceptable international standards on the right to freedom of expression and freedom of information. ARTICLE 19 submitted its comments…