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…
Category: Laws
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…
Breaking a Promise on Surveillance
From a New York Times editorial: It is just a technical matter, the Obama administration says: We just need to make a slight change in a law to make clear that we have the right to see the names of anyone’s e-mail correspondents and their Web browsing history without the messy complication of asking a…