Alicia Dunkley reports that 51 members of Jamaica’s Parliament voted for a Charter of Rights Bill, which had been the subject of intense debate for 17 years: Yesterday, the Bill, An Act to Amend the Constitution of Jamaica to Provide for A Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and for Connected Matters, was given overwhelming…
Category: Non-U.S.
85 percent of B.C. adults in police database ‘disturbing’
Neal Hall reports: The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says it is disturbing that up to 85 per cent of B.C. adults have their names in a police computer database designed to track criminals. The association has written a letter to B.C. Solicitor General Shirley Bond, asking her to investigate why the majority of B.C.’s law-abiding…
UK: Goldsmiths win court privacy order on hacked e-mails
Details of personal e-mails from Tory MP Zac Goldsmith’s ex-wife Sheherazade and his sister Jemima Khan should not be published, the High Court has ruled. It has emerged a woman hacked their e-mail accounts and passed details to a national newspaper journalist. The case was made subject to a “super injunction” in 2008, meaning nothing…
Privacy in Tweets – the debate continues
Brid Jordan writes: Addressing the Westminster Media Forum on the regulation of privacy and online media earlier today Baroness Buscombe, Chairman of the PCC [Press Complaints Commission – Dissent], referred to the PCC’s decision in Baskerville (see a report of that decision here). Faced with some criticism of the decision, described by one commentator at the…