I’ve had a tough time following the legal challenges to a Dutch law requiring fingerprints to obtain a passport, mainly because of the lack of English-language news coverage in depth, but here’s the latest development, from DutchNews.nl: The Hague city council is within its rights to refuse to issue a passport to a woman who…
Category: Laws
Ca: Air-travel bill flies in Senate
An air-travel security bill that critics initially slammed as an infringement on passenger privacy and a surrendering of Canadian authority to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has passed third reading in the Senate, winning support for an amended version of the legislation from both Conservative and Liberal members. The passage of Bill C-42 means…
Jamaica: PASSED! – 51 MPs vote in favour of Charter of Rights Bill
Alicia Dunkley reports that 51 members of Jamaica’s Parliament voted for a Charter of Rights Bill, which had been the subject of intense debate for 17 years: Yesterday, the Bill, An Act to Amend the Constitution of Jamaica to Provide for A Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and for Connected Matters, was given overwhelming…
US senator pushes for mobile privacy reform
Declan McCullagh writes: Draft legislation would provide new privacy protections for Americans by requiring police to obtain search warrants to track the locations of cars and cell phones. The forthcoming bill being prepared by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and reviewed by ZDNet Asia’s sister site CNET would provide legal protections for “geolocation information”, meaning data…