Jennifer Baker reports: Critics were worried that the European Union’s privacy directive on browser cookies could make virtually every website in Europe illegal. But most EU member countries ignored the May 25 deadline to implement the directive, so e-commerce didn’t skip a beat. Only Denmark, Estonia and the U.K. have taken steps to implement the…
Category: Laws
Privacy, Data Protection And India
Pritesh N. Munjal writes: India has no privacy laws and data protection laws. This is despite the fact that without these essential laws many governmental projects are simply illegal and unconstitutional. Even future technologies like cloud computing are not safe to be used in India. Further, a special protection to privacy rights in the information…
Et tu, Israel? Israel to start collecting fingerprints from all citizens
Atty. Jonathan J. Klinger writes: Last Thursday marked the final approval of the biometric database regulations and the biometric database order in Israel; the regulations and order were approved by a special Knesset panel participated solely by MK Meir Sheetrit (Kadima) and Abraham Michaeli (Shas), where Sheetrit was the initial entrepreneur of the Biometric Database in his position…
Costa Rica Privacy Legislation Moves Forward
Costa Rica’s quest for an omnibus privacy law took a major step forward on April 27, 2011, when the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica gave its stamp of approval to a far-ranging piece of privacy legislation, finding that it had no constitutional defects. In March 2011, the bill, known as the law of…