Jasper Copping reports: Councils have used anti-terrorism laws to try to catch people donating goods outside charity shops and to make sure dogs are wearing collars. The investigations are among those uncovered in a survey by The Sunday Telegraph into the use by town halls of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000. The…
Category: Laws
NH: State’s perversion of ‘driver privacy’
The following is an editorial by Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader: The people of New Hampshire should know that their state government is using — in our view misusing — something called the “Driver Privacy Act” to prevent them from finding out what their public servants are doing on public…
Rockefeller introduces Senate online privacy bill
Kevin McKeefery reports: Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, a bill that aims to curb sales tactics used by third-party online affiliates such as Affinion, Vertrue and Webloyalty. Rockefeller introduced the bill May 19, shortly after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation released a staff report outlining…
Groups spar over car black boxes as congress mulls auto safety bill
Peter Whoriskey reports: A proposal to equip all new cars with “black boxes” to record crash data has emerged as a key point of dispute between the industry and safety groups as Congress weighs an expansive auto safety bill. With both sides showing support for making black boxes mandatory, their appearance in all cars in…