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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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.
Available Now: New Working Paper on the Right to Information and Privacy
A reader kindly forwarded me a copy of an announcement from the World Bank Institute concerning a working paper authored by David Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel for Article XIX (a group oriented to global free expression): The relationship between privacy and Right to Information laws is currently the subject of considerable debate around the globe as countries…
Deleting History: Why Governments Demand Google Censor the Truth
Approaches to privacy are becoming more disparate across continents as EU perspectives on a “right to be forgotten” have raised the hackles of Americans who believe that such efforts inevitably constitute censorship and a rewriting of history. Lauren Weinstein provides his perspective on the issue. He writes, in part: … what we’re seeing on various…