Courts in New South Wales would get the power to keep high-risk domestic violence offenders under constant surveillance with GPS tracking devices, under a re-elected Labor government. The plan is part of a $15.6 million package of measures designed to combat domestic and sexual violence unveiled by Premier Kristina Keneally today. The measures would also…
Category: Laws
Es: Spain’s Parliament Modifies DPA Penalty Authority As DPA’s Enforcement Efforts Scrutinized
This report comes to us from Gonzalo Gallego a partner in the Hogan Lovells privacy practice resident in Madrid: Spain has a new penalty regime for violations of privacy, with many minimum and maximum fines lowered. This is viewed as a business-friendly development at a time when the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“SPDA” or “Agency”) has earned a…
UK: RIPA changes in Freedoms Bill don’t protect privacy enough
Amberhawk Training writes: The “Protection of Freedoms Bill” has a wholly misleading title; the legislation simply does not do what it says on the tin. The CCTV provisions (see here) have more to do with efficient surveillance than privacy protection. We reviewed the Information Commissioner’s concerns about the use of personal data in DNA profiling…
Homeland Security bows to Real ID outcry
Declan McCullagh reports: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today postponed the effective date of the Real ID Act until January 15, 2013, a move that avoided causing tremendous disruptions to air travel. The reason that Homeland Security granted the delay is that, apart from some Republican stalwarts in Congress, this law creating a digital nationalized…