Allan Doughty writes: … Although Bermuda does not yet afford the same privacy protections that are available in the UK, Bermuda’s Telecommunications Act is broad enough to safeguard certain aspects of a person’s privacy, particularly with regards to “hacking” into computer systems and voice mail. There are also Common Law protections in place which recognise…
Category: Laws
NL: Privacy body cracks down on ‘catch a crook’ websites
Shop keepers and others who place films and photographs of people they suspect of committing crimes on websites risk being fined up to €25,000 under new privacy legislation currently being drawn up, the AD reports on Monday. The national privacy watchdog CPB is closely involved in drawing up the new rules which will be ready…
New Indian Privacy Law Impacts U.S. Companies
Peter Brown writes: In the United States, India is synonymous with outsourced data processing services and customer service call centers for credit card issuers, banks and retailers. The flow of data between the two countries has been unrestricted and, to a large extent, unregulated. This has now been changed. In April 2011, India adopted new…
Russia Enacts Amendments to Data Privacy Law
As reported in BNA’s Privacy Law Watch, on July 25, 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new federal law amending Russia’s personal data privacy law, “On Personal Data.” The amended law, which was made public on July 27 and is effective retroactively from July 1, 2011, imposes new rules on international data transfers. As we previously reported, and as noted…