The newly enacted Tort Liability Law grants legal rights to people whose reputation or privacy has been damaged by online character assassination. It also holds Internet service providers accountable if they are aware of malicious intent of anonymous attackers, but fail to stop the infringement. “Human flesh” search is a loose term to define thousands…
Category: Laws
White House wants to help you “blog anonymously”
Jon Stokes writes: The White House has announced a new initiative aimed at bringing the federal government into the online identity space in a major way. Via a post on the White House blog, the administration has announced the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The blog post has a link to a…
Ca: Changes to privacy laws vague
David Canton comments that C-29’s language is vague and may confuse as much as clarify: Bill C-29 was recently introduced to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The bill is an attempt to address a number of shortcomings in the legislation that governs private-sector privacy in Ontario and other provinces. Most of…
MY: Decision to bar agencies from keeping personal data welcomed
Various quarters welcome the government to bar credit reference agencies from keeping personal data without permission. Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (Fomca) adviser Prof Datuk Mohd Hamdan Adnan said companies that keep personal data should delete them. “It is strange how they (credit reference agencies) know our addresses and personal data although we have never…