Sahil Makkar and Surabhi Agarwal, with Manish Ranjan, report: Amid growing concerns over the potential misuse of personal data, the government is moving to enact India’s first law to safeguard privacy, a move aimed at least partly at deflecting worries over the immense amount of data it proposes to collect about its citizens. The United…
Category: Laws
No DUI Blood Tests Without a Warrant in Arizona
Dave Sheffield writes: About a week ago, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued its decision in the case of Carrillo v. Houser, No. CV-09-0285-PR (Ariz. 2010), which presented a dispute about Arizona’s implied consent law. The State contended that the consent that the law implied extended to a warrantless chemical alcohol test unless the person…
Increased PATRIOT Act Oversight is Welcome News for Reader Privacy Advocates
The Campaign for Reader Privacy, which has been fighting to restore privacy safeguards for library and bookstore records that were stripped away by the Patriot Act, warmly welcomed an announcement by the Inspector General (IG) of the Justice Department that he plans to begin a new investigation into how the government is using Patriot Act…
Inside Australia’s data retention proposal
Benn Grubb provides more on the controversial proposal: The information that the Australian system, if implemented, would get ISPs to log and retain is yet to be set in stone by the Attorney-General’s Department. ZDNet Australia reported various ISP sources’ claims that it could extend as far as each individual web page an internet user…