Dan Hinkel reports: When a man arrested earlier this year in Virginia on robbery and abduction charges was linked by DNA to the horrific slayings of two young girls in Zion, it raised the possibility of exoneration for the original suspect, who has been behind bars for five years. But the crucial connection might not…
Category: Laws
Italy: Limiting of press freedom impacts bloggers too
Vikki Chowney reports: Italy’s move to restrict wiretapped phone conversations being published online means bloggers and even people posting comments on social networks will have to post retractions when asked, or face a fine. Italy is set to extend its ’obbligo di rettifica’ (rectification obligation), a law that requires newspapers to publish corrections, to cover…
New Minnesota law gives police warrantless access to cellphone location data
A new law went into effect in Minnesota today. As reported by Mark Sommerhauser: A new law requires cell-phone companies to reveal call-location information if asked by law enforcement to do so in an emergency. The law came from the Kelsey Smith Act, named for a missing Kansas teen whose body was found after a…
Hong Kong Privacy Chief Pushes for Regulation
Jeffrey Ng reports: Hong Kong’s outgoing privacy commissioner Friday urged the government to consider legislation to better regulate the actions of service monopolies such as Octopus Holdings Ltd., after the cashless-payment operator provoked public discontent when it admitted to selling personal data of nearly 2 million customers to business partners even though it earlier denied…