John Higginson reports: Internet users should have the ‘right to be forgotten’, to stop prospective employers finding a naked picture of them, for example, Europe’s top legal officer said. Justice commissioner Viviane Reding said there must be an overhaul of the EU’s 16-year-old laws on data protection to enforce safeguards on how personal information is…
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UK: Government refuses to outlaw celebrity gagging orders
Oliver Wright reports: Ministers have ruled out reforming Britain’s privacy laws or bringing in new legislation to stop super-injunctions silencing the media, the Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said yesterday. Launching the Government’s draft Libel Bill, Mr Clarke said such a move would be “wildly controversial” and there was no legislative time available in Parliament to…
First case in the Supreme court of Nepal with regarding the right to privacy
Annapurna Rana Case A woman living with a man and maintaining a physical relationship with him is not necessarily his wife, the Supreme Court of Nepal said in an elaborate ruling. Making a detailed ruling on an aspect of right to privacy of a woman in a case involving a bitter property feud between a…
RIM Hits India’s Email Demands
Amol Sharma reports: A top executive of BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Indian security agencies are making “rather astonishing” demands for increased powers to monitor email and other data traffic, raising serious privacy issues that threaten to harm the country’s reputation with foreign investors. Read more on MarketWatch.