Betsy Powell and Jim Wilkes report: An underwire bra is at the centre of an impaired driving case after police asked a suspect to remove her lingerie over concerns it could be used as a “weapon.” Sang Eun Lee, of Richmond Hill, is asking an Ontario judge to dismiss an impaired driving charge against her…
Category: Non-U.S.
How Tuenti Held Off Facebook in Spain with Better Privacy
Laura Parkinson reports on a Spanish social networking site that many Americans – this blogger included – may never have heard about. But if you’re a Facebook user – or someone who complains about all of the privacy concerns about Facebook – you may want to learn about Tuenti, as it shows that you can…
UK: Schools consider invading students’ privacy yet even more
Stewart Mitchell reports: Teachers could get the right to search mobile phone content in a bid to clampdown on cyber-bullying under the new Education Bill. The bill was introduced into parliament in January and is now being honed in committees, but education officials are split over the need for Draconian rules that would would enable…
Foggy thinking about the Right to Oblivion
Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, has a personal blog where he shares his own (not his boss’s) thoughts. He writes: In privacy circles, everybody’s talking about the Right to be Forgotten. The European Commission has even proposed that the “right to be forgotten” should be written into the up-coming revision of the Privacy Directive….