The Intelligence Bureau wants internet service providers, or ISPs, to keep a record of all online activities of customers for a minimum of six months, a move that can add to operational costs for companies and pose privacy concerns. IB, in a communication to the department of telecom, or DoT , has sought that addresses of…
Category: Laws
UK: Police demand new powers to stop and search terror suspects
Vikram Dodd reports: Police have asked the government for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in crime, the Guardian has learned. […] A previous law allowing counter-terrorism stops without suspicion, section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, was scrapped this year by the home secretary,…
CA: Online impersonation banned starting in New Year
When the calendar flips over to 2011, a lot of new laws go into effect, some of which impact privacy. Here’s one of them, as reported by Kurtis Alexander: Once just a cruel joke, assuming another person’s identity on the Internet and fabricating an e-mail or Facebook account is no longer a laughing matter. A…
KR: Law on Internet to prosecute rumormongers ‘unconstitutional’
Park Si-soo reports: A law that provided the legal grounds to indict “Minerva,” a well-known Internet commentator, for spreading “misleading” information on the Internet was ruled unconstitutional, Tuesday. The Constitutional Court’s ruling immediately brought an end to the 49-year-old law, which opposition legislators claimed had been abused to gag anti-government bloggers amid concerns about the…