Steve Scherer reports: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he’d push ahead with a law that limits police wiretapping during criminal investigations, setting up a clash with a group of lawmakers that left his party in July. The extent of wiretapping in Italy is “uncivilized,” Berlusconi said in a speech to motorcycle makers near Milan….
Category: Laws
Ca: Lawful access back before Parliament
David Fraser writes: Once again, the Government of Canada has put “lawful access” back before Parliament. Notice that it again allows for the police and “national security agencies” to require the personal information of telecommunications customers without a warrant. I will post a link to the bill itself as soon as I can get my…
Data Protection and Free Speech in Germany
Thorsten Feldmann guest-blogs on Zohar Efroni’s blog. Zohar introduces him as a well-known expert on German data protection law and a blogger in his own right. Privacy protection in the global information society is today, perhaps more than ever before, a hotly-debated topic in Germany. I had the opportunity last week at a conference held…
ZA: Info Bill heading for delay
Emsie Ferreira reports: The contentious Protection of Information Bill is heading for a redraft to narrow its scope, but the new version will not see the light this year, MPs said on Friday. Parliament’s ad hoc committee processing the bill agreed to take as a starting point for a new draft, proposals by State Security…