TJ McIntyre has an interesting piece analyzing Irish law as it applies to compelling production of encryption keys: Here’s a snippet: … Irish law generally doesn’t require disclosure of passwords or private keys to police – see e.g. section 28 of theElectronic Commerce Act 2000. (This is in contrast to the position in the UK, where…
Category: Laws
Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy
Edward Wyatt and Tanzina Vega report: … In the next few weeks, both the Federal Trade Commission and the Commerce Department are planning to release independent, and possibly conflicting, reports about online privacy. Top Commerce officials have indicated that the department favors letting the industry regulate itself, building on the common practice of user agreements…
California Approves Amendments to Privacy Regulations
In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Office of Administrative Law has approved Department of Insurance plans to repeal certain portions of its privacy regulations. The CDI filed with OAL on Sept. 22, 2010, a “change without regulatory effect,” arising out of the enactment of the California Financial Information…
NZ: Search & Surveillance Bill goes too far, EPMU
From their press release: The government’s Search & Surveillance Bill goes too far in extending search and seizure powers to allow the police to order journalists to hand over documents and reveal the identity of their sources, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU). These powers were recently used by the SFO to order…