John Hilvert reports: A Joint Select Committee has made 13 unanimous recommendations to amend proposed cyber crime legislation. The Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill pushed telcos and ISPs to preserve “stored communications and telecommunications data”, such as “computer data”, email, and SMS messages. Law enforcement agencies could get hold of the data to aid investigations if they had…
Category: Laws
Blumenthal Announces Legislation on Data Privacy
Senator Richard Blumenthal held a roundtable discussion yesterday with data breach experts and community leaders at the Information Technology Center at the University of Connecticut Greater Hartford campus to discuss legislation he will introduce in the coming weeks that will take a multi-pronged approach to combating the risks associated with data breaches for both consumers…
S. Korea plans to scrap online real-name system
It appears that a massive data breach affecting 35 million South Koreans who use popular portal and social networking sites Nate and Cyworld has served as a wake-up call for the government: The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the…
New Zealand law acknowledges privacy right in publication of private information
Peter Timmins writes: And they live to tell the tale, believe it or not. The issue of a right to sue for beach of privacy wasn’t mentioned in theStage 4 report of the New Zealand Law Commission released this week. The subject was addressed in the Stage 3 report last year (Chapter 7). To summarise, New Zealand law recognises a…