The Associated Press reports: Public access to the state database of people with permits to carry guns would be closed under a bill on its way to the floor of the Indiana House. The bill was filed following complaints over newspaper stories that used information from the database to scrutinize how gun permits are issued,…
Category: Laws
AU: ALRC renews data loss financial penalty call
Christina Zhou reports: The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has renewed its call for fines for failing to notify the privacy commissioner of data breaches after the UK introduced penalties of up to half a million pounds. The ALRC initially made the call in its report: For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice released…
WI: Proposed law would allow more access to records on licensed professionals
Jason Stein reports: The public would have greater access to records on the doctors, pharmacists and psychologists licensed by the state to care for them, under a bill before the Legislature. From nurses to social workers, the state Department of Regulation and Licensing doesn’t routinely do criminal background checks when it licenses most state professionals….
UK: E-commerce Regulations updated to exempt ISPs from hate speech charges
The Government has published Regulations that will absolve internet service providers (ISPs) and other digital service providers of responsibility for religion or sexuality-related hate speech transmitted over their networks. The E-Commerce Directive protects service providers from liability for material that they neither create nor monitor but simply store or pass on to users of their…