A Reuters report indicates that your home is not exactly your castle in Bhutan: Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honour a promise to become the world’s first smoke-free nation. Buddhist Bhutan, where smoking is considered…
Category: Laws
NL: Speeding car information to be stored in new data bank
Dutch News reports: The number plates of cars captured on film by automatic speed controls will remain on file for four weeks, if draft legislation from justice minister Ivo Opstelten makes the statute books. The draft bill is due to be published today, according to the Telegraaf. It says the minister believes keeping a description…
1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web
Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller report on how ECPA needs updating to bring the same legal and privacy protections to electronic communications as postal mail enjoys: Concerned by the wave of requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies, Google last year set up an online tool showing the frequency of these requests in…
Indiana lawmakers to consider upskirt ban
In dealing with the apparent scourge of upskirt photography, a key Indiana Senate committee will consider a proposed bill Tuesday by State Sen. Tom Wyss (R-Fort Wayne) that would make it illegal to take or distribute pictures or video of a person’s private areas. The bill would establish the new crime of “Invasion of Privacy…