Marshall Kirkpatrick writes: Geolocation is quickly emerging as a big new platform to build all kinds of cool services on top of. While there’s a whole lot of potential – there’s also growing concern about the privacy implications of this flush of data about where we are. Thus it’s timely that a committee of the…
Category: Laws
Tasmanian electoral law threatens privacy
Stuart Corner reports: A law requiring all electoral matter posted on the Internet to be accompanied by the poster’s name and address conflicts with the need for users of social networking sites to maintain their privacy. Consumer Group Digital Tasmania – supported by Electronic Frontiers Australia, Civil Liberties Australia and the Australian Privacy Foundation –…
ID: Man who posted wolf hunter info on web responds to privacy legislation
Dustin Hurst reports: Legislators 0n the House Resources and Conservation Committee introduced a bill Thursday to protect the identity of any hunter that kills a wolf in Idaho. The man who caused this bill to be brought before the Legislature thinks it is bad legislation. The issue arose when Idaho opened up a wolf hunt…
Proposed S.D. law would require websites to collect information on anonymous sources for libel and slander lawsuits
Seth Tupper reports: A South Dakota lawmaker wants to require bloggers and operators of other Web sites to collect information about the source of anonymously posted content so the information can be used in libel and slander lawsuits. Republican Rep. Noel Hamiel, who represents Aurora and Davison counties, introduced the legislation as a two-bill package…