As I noted last week, some provisions of the PATRIOT Act are up for renewal this month. Two bills have been introduced in the Senate and two bills have been introduced in the House to extend the roving wiretaps and FISA-related provisions that will otherwise expire on February 28. In the Senate, Senator Feinstein introduced…
Category: Laws
Rep. Rush to reintroduce privacy bill next week
Sara Jerome reports: Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) will reintroduce his online privacy legislation next week, his spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. He garnered qualified support from Intel, eBay, and Microsoft last year, while a competing bill was drafted by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Cliff Stearns (D-Fla). Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) also promised a bill…
UK: Anonymity proposed for teachers accused by pupils
Jaron Lewis writes: The controversial Education Bill was published on 26 January 2011. A proposed new restriction (clause 13 of the Bill) will apply where a pupil or their representative makes an allegation that their teacher has committed a criminal offence against a registered pupil at the teacher’s school. It will prohibit the publication of…
AU: Review of the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW)
From the introduction of a recent submission of the Australian Privacy Foundation to the NSW Attorney General’s Department: The Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) (‘the Act’) replaced the Workplace Video Surveillance Act 1998 (NSW) (‘the WVSA’), which only applied to video camera surveillance. The new Act also applies to additional forms of surveillance including email…